Pradip Gogoi is/Was Ulfa's Vice Chairman when he was nabbed some 7 years back from ONGC Colony Sibsagar from where he was to have collected ONGC "Donations".
He has spent all that time in Jails. Lastly 5 Years at Guahati Jail. He is one of the 5 pawns.
Every week once/twice he is brought under armed escort and TRIAL takes place at IMDT Court.
Every such day he makes hundreds of mobile phone calls to everybody including high ups.He is photographed,he gives interviews( and asks "Did I speak well?"). He is very generous with his guards, lawyers, magistrates.....Passes Chai/Mithaii for everybody.He must have told Tehelka what he did during such a carnival-like setting.
The Whole 2-3 hours is a delectable session for many.
He sometimes calls me for the next appearance and to stand by him for the TV take.Nice guy!
His village is Betbari , Sibsagar,-15 miles from ours. Background- I do not know much. 50 ish.
Whole lot of people work as Ulfa's Think Tank. But what will be their final stand is anybody's guess. Direct Negotiations --" Only after the 5 Executives in Jails + the ones disappeared from Bhutan sit together freed"
So wait!
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From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ram Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] From Tehelka
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:33:05 -0500
I don't know Pradip Gogoi from Adam, Ram, even though he is a fellow Jokaisukiya from perhaps thirty miles or so from where I grew up. I don't know under what context he said what he did. But regardless of their political creed NO revolutionary could deny Castro his due place in the history of revolutions. Similarly, regardless of the failures ( or successes) of Marxism as a system of governance, no one can deny the enormous influence Marx left in the formation of contemporary human civilization.>will there be a Communistic slant in their rule?*** Even if I were to be in a position to answer such questions, I could not have answered such a vague question. What exactly is a communistic slant? Is Israel with its Kibbutzes ( Communes) and absence of private land-ownership and socialist governance 'communistic'; fit to be tarred and feathered with such simplistic labels ? How did Menachem Begin get rehabilitated as a 'freedom-fighter', while he was instrumental to blowing up Britishers and their installations and was once branded by them a 'terrorist'? What kind of cleansing solvent did Begin's followers find to wash off his 'terrorist' label?There is way too much hypocrisy and self-serving piety going on all around us today to give such labels any credence at all Ram. Particularly by people who are informed and are able to reason.c-daAt 12:31 PM -0500 8/16/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:C'daThanks for sharing that with us. Pretty interesting. Gogoi does have the tenacity and passion - one must give him that, even though I necessarily do not see things his way.Its is intriguing that his passion for independence is built upon the ideals of Marx and Castro.The question is, if people like him become leaders of an independent Assam, will there be a Communistic slant in their rule?Just thoughts.--Ram
On 8/16/06, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ULFA's Pradip Gogoi in Tehelka:
http://www.fromallangles.com/newspapers/country/india/tehelka.com.htm
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