Welcome to asssamnet Chitta. You ask good questions. Not new though. They were asked before by many a netter,and almost always as challenges. And I submit myself to the inquisitions willingly and without complaint, mull over the questions raised and challenges thrown, and try to answer them to the best of my abilities. I like to think I address them credibly, the vast majority of them. My disappointment, however, is that even when I explain credibly, my inquisitors and challengers don't accept them, while remaining unable to rebut or otherwise prove wrong what they don't like about my explanations or answers.
I hope you will be different. So I will try to answer them again. It will take time, for yours is a long litany of questions and complaints. Just stay tuned. m-da At 2:29 AM -0800 2/7/07, chittaranjan pathak wrote: >Dear Shri Mahanta da >Warm up >Thanks for the insight on the unfortunate Galeki >incidence. Yes you are right-CISF is meant to be >checking security passes and stuff like oil tanker >permits at the industrial installation gates, loading >bays etc. It was clearly a case of overstepping their >boundaries. >Somebody was asking-why they are given guns? Till >recently many of them were having only sticks. But now >they are guarding all the vital oil/gas/nuclear >installations other places like Akshardham, >parliament, airports etc and role includes warding off >terrorist attacks also. So guns are justified and so >would have been the killing had the shots been aimed >at some saboteur climbing a high security wall of an >oil installation with a khukri and a naked torch. >But here it was a case of sheer ego boosting exercise. >CRPk dekhi uthil gaa, CISFe bule muku khaa. The >officer must be punished. But no body is going to >follow it up in Assam-so may be he will end up getting >secretly transferred to some oil installation in >Ankleswar basin. Are we in a position to do something >to force authorities punish such high handed arrogant >officials? > >Now my baptism of fire in Assamnet! >Coming to your last post where you refuted Ram das >anguished declaration that you are always the fair >and balanced by saying that your partisanship lies >with my peoples aspiration of running their lives >as they say fit. >Respecting your siding and at the same time letting >you know that my heart also lies with the aspiration >of those same people for a better life, may I ask >you the following small question? >Background >By my people you must be referring to Assamese people >and by running their lives as they say fit you must >be meaning an independent Assam. Are the Assamese >people really aspiring to be free or independent from >India? Yes-some are. But not all of them-not the ones >I know of. As far as my relatives, friends, parents, >brothers, numerous cousins spread all over Assam are >concerned (and if you consider them my own people), >freedom from India is not much of an issue for them. >In fact for the younger ones-freedom from Assam is >the in thing now. Longevity of most of the Assamese >youths is now 18 years in Assam. After that all of >them want to come out of Assam-be it for job or for >studies. And those who stay back-many a times many of >them are frustrated with the Delhi government but at >the same time they are frustrated with the local >government run by their own people. But by and large >they never in realistic term contemplate a life away >from India. They just want to a better life and seem >to be quite weary of another neo-nation building >exercise. >But if my ongohi bongohi are not representative >enough, do not the following point out that aspiration >for freedom is hardly an issue with the majority >people of Assam-Assamese as well as others? >1) AASU saying that it does not support independent >Assam. So does Asom Sahitya Sabha. Also now powerful >and vocal ethnic student bodies like AATASU, AKRSU >etc have never endorsed this sovereignty demand. >2) Poll conducted in Assam districts excluding Barak >valley (3 districts), hill councils (2 districts) and >BTC (4 districts), said 95% people One can not discard >the findings to be an orchestrated exercise as the >guys doing the polls were not fools to come up with >the findings knowing very well they can get killed for >what they are saying. >3) The Karbis and the Dimasas of the hill districts >always are always clamoring for certain degree of >autonomy from Assam government but are never aligned >with ULFAs Swadhin Asom demand. Same is the case with >Mishing, Tiwa and Rabha student bodies >4) Three major communities of Assam-Ahoms, >Koch-Rajbongshis and Tea garden tribes are demanding >scheduling under Indian constitution. Ultimate goal is >perceived economic prosperity and more representation >through reservation and independent Assam is the last >thing majority of these people have in mind. > >Question >You may have reasons and a vision to side with the >cause of independent Assam. >What I am asking you now is whether do you agree or >not that you are siding with a microscopic minority of >the population of Assam who share the same vision >whereas majority have discarded this idea for more >practical reasons? Idea was romantic but in 2007 >hardly there are any takers in Assam. >A very specific question-dont you agree? > >Best regards > >Chittaranjan Pathak > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >It's here! Your new message! >Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! 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