Hi Chitta:
I am back with another response to the points you raised in your last post.
In the mean time, I am hoping to get your response/feedback on the
issue of connecting those dots that I posted in my last response.
Para-3
Gist-The sovereignty demand has stemmed due to government
unresponsiveness and inability to deliver. This according to you is
the most important cause.
Comment-You are right Mahanta da. But this is equally true for other
states of India-like say Bihar or Tripura. OK I agree with you that
Delhi does not bother. There is a belief that Assam gets step
motherly treatment. You may be right.
*** The fact that Bihar or Orissa or Tamil Nadu govts. are as
unresponsive too should not be something to justify or accept Assam
Govts' unresponsiveness as a given. On the other hand it underscores
the root cause of such unresponsiveness: The dysfunctional Indian
governmental institutions and its machinery. The Indian system's
self-correcting mechanisms,those that could be found in functioning
democracies, even though may be in the books, have been reduced to
empty shells, shams, disabled and unable to deliver.
If you saw the article I posted from ToI yesterday in regard to the
Central Govt. fighting to keep MPs and MLAs convicted of criminal
acts in govts. so as not to topple razor thin majorities shows Indian
inability to forge the necessary political will to effect positive
change thru comprehensive reforms.
That was only ONE example.
*** I did not say 'Delhi does not bother'. They cannot, even if they
wished. And under the circumstances, to let them control your life,
Assam's welfare, is a travesty.
*** I also did not claim "assam gets step-motherly treatment' . I
reject that notion entirely as I explained earlier.
How can India be MORE FAIR as the perfunctory complainers and whiners
seek? WHO decides what is FAIR and WHAT yardstick does Dilli use to
determine what is fair? Have you ever considered that? Do you know
what it is? Is it acceptable to you, if you do?
And if Dilli has to be FAIRER by Assam, resources being finite, it
has to be done on the backs of somebody else. Who should that be? Do
you see HOW the notion of having to rob Peter to pay Paul is an
unsustainable proposition with a built-in DISCRIMINATORY factor? It
has already played out the other day when MMS proposed those
'packages' to Assam only to back-pedal the next day, because other
states demanded that too, while the inflation fighters objected to
the spending.
So to complain about 'step-motherly treatment' is an acceptance of
the legitimacy of the discriminatory system, of which Assam has been
long a victim. To continue to expect redress from such a system is at
best living in a fool's paradise.
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