> >Divisive agenda? Actually it was power grabbing and a whole lot of >corruption amongst the leaders.
*** I am trying to understand what you present, trying to read the underlying message. Are you suggesting that these folks, unable to seize power through 'legitimate', desi means, decided to grab it through the agitation, forcibly removing the legitimate powers who were occupying the 'gaddi' while Assam smoldered? It is hard for me to comprehend this. Would you care to explain the legitimacy and effectiveness of those who got thrown out by the agitators ? *** But the point I was making, and you digress from, is that the people of Assam, ( excepting the Bengali speakers and the Hindiwallas), by and large did close ranks behind the agitators, didn't they? And it included Bodos, Misings,Karbis, Ahoms and even Bamuns. Am I incorrect about that? >and a whole lot of corruption amongst the leaders. *** Corruption is NOT an innate condition ( you ought to have learned that by now Ram--tsk, tsk :-)), it was an effect, of falling prey to the dysfunctional desi-governmental system and its vested machinery. They did not realize that merely a turn-over of the people at the wheels of this system was not going to be enough to make a difference for Assam. It required radical overhauling, if not entirely replacing the defective, antiquated,hand-me-down machinery of a colonial past. > >Aren't the new 'andwlon' leaders now >fighting for 'independence' cut from a similar cloth? Are they any different *** You keep making the same mistake over and over again Ram :-). It is NOT the people ALONE that matters. It is the machinery that requires major overhauling. Of course better trained, able and passionate operators are required too. The good news is that Assam has plenty of those. The question is HOW to bring them on board? And how to get the right apparatus for them to work with. > >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, Ram, Ram! You are letting your guard down --- your saffron is showing :-)! c-da At 10:41 AM -0500 8/26/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
