C'da, >Unfortunately the 'andwlon' leadership had a divisive agenda, was >uneducated about how to form a government and reform it to move >forward. They young folks thought that changing of the guard was >enough to take them to the promised land. It was a profoundly >faulty perception as it proved to be in very short order.
Divisive agenda? Actually it was power grabbing and a whole lot of corruption amongst the leaders. Aren't the new 'andwlon' leaders now fighting for 'independence' cut from a similar cloth? Are they any different? No, no, I could be wrong here, there may actually be an infusion of new ideas here - you know from B'Desh and the ISI. :-) --Ram On 8/26/06, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If GOI cannot > re-engineer thusly with its bigger resource base, I > doubt it will ever come to such a pass in a free Assam > with a proportionately much lower resource base and a > long line of "extractors" of very doubtful track > records already waiting to appropriate resources. > > > > > *** Is this some kind of an irrefutable or unchangeable natural law :-)? > What does RESOURCE have to do with the ability to re-engineer a state's > governance? > > India is incapable because of its deeply fractured polity, and its > behemoth-like size. > > But Assam, in spite of its diversity, is a far more manageable entity, that > can and will close ranks behind an enlightened agenda. The 'andwlon' was a > good example that it could be done. Unfortunately the 'andwlon' leadership > had a divisive agenda, was uneducated about how to form a government and > reform it to move forward. They young folks thought that changing of the > guard was enough to take them to the promised land. It was a profoundly > faulty perception as it proved to be in very short order. > > > > > > > > > > > > At 7:11 AM -0700 8/26/06, Rajib Das wrote: > This is where it turns to the realm of the > non-existent. > > > *** An Assam that is free to re-engineer its > > governance with tools to > > exact accountability and set up deterrence against > > non-performance, > > can immediately turn things around on this front. > > An Assam will never be free to re-engineer from the > ground up in as much as GOI is not. Everything > extracts a price. The revolution that will supposedly > foster in a free Assam will extract a price. Those > that support the revolution (and I don't mean what I > think are the non-existent toiling masses) will > extract a price. Those who will need to switch over > from their current political cocoons to help the > revolution foster the "freeness" will extract a price. > There would be too much of the extraction going by the > track record of the "extractors". > > > > > A governmental bureaucracy that is not sustained by > > a treasury that > > steals from those who PRODUCE and re-distributes to > > the > > non-performers in the form of life time employment > > regardless of > > productivity would immediately react to the fact > > their "xaandoh-khwa > > baali tol-jowa" ( the demise of the golden goose) > > situation. > > All of a sudden the bloated and un-productive > > bureaucracy will be a > > thing of the past. > > Is that a mission statement of free Assam or > Chandanda's free wish? If all that is there in free > Assam, I doubt it will ever happen. If GOI cannot > re-engineer thusly with its bigger resource base, I > doubt it will ever come to such a pass in a free Assam > with a proportionately much lower resource base and a > long line of "extractors" of very doubtful track > records already waiting to appropriate resources. > > > Ensuing social turmoil? > > > > Some of it is bound to happen. Everything has a > price. > I am sure Manmohan Singh must also be sitting in his > high chair, wishing he could re-engineer the > government and throw out government employees and > wishing away the "ensuing social turmoil" with the > flick of a hand. Unfortunately I am sure he > understands that social turmoil would devour him. > > And no, the case would not be any different in a free > Assam. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > [email protected] > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
