Lets come to Assam government which has also
failed to deliver. Assam government consisted of
Bordoloi, Medhi, Choudhury, Chaliha, Sinha,
Saikia, Mahanta, Gogoi etc is not it. If these
Haare Himojue Assamese leaders have also let
us down then should the blame lie with Delhi or
on US. You may say that it is not their
inefficiency but lack of maneuverability due to
tight control from Delhi-which resulted in such
poor show.
Maan liya unka dore dilliwalo ke haath thae,
lekin paw tou unke asam ke zamin me hi thae. Ki
koy?
*** Good point you raise about Bordoloi, Medhi,
Choudhury, Chaliha-s asleep at the wheel. Not
new, it is one of the most often repeated false
paradoxes that I addressed any number of times.
It is quite amazing however how it keeps
re-appearing, again and again like a
'suti-gaator-nigoni' ( literally: A rat from a
shallow burrow). I think we need to set up a
website for FAQ's and False Paradoxes regarding
Assam's independences aspirations posed by its
opponents.
But since you are new to the list, and not a
proven learning-disabled ( there are a few here),
I am pleased to explain again:
Just because those at the helm of the
dysfunctional Assam govts., past or present have
been Oxomiyas, and have been derelict in their
duties, the people of Assam have NOT , by any
stretch of the imagination, automatically
forfeited a right to redress of that condition.
Let me give you a couple of similar other false
paradoxes to illustrate the point:
*** Just because govt. employees in Assam, working in an environment
of low or no expectation of performance , without any form of
deterrence against non-performance and unavailability of a
functioning system of exacting accountability, have established a
notoriety of being "lahe'-lahe'"; does that mean the entire
Oxomiya Jaati ( the Assmese ethnicity) is also deserving of being
slapped with the "lahe'-lahe'" slur?
*** Just because few or no Oxomiya intellectuals or members of the
public raised a hue and cry when the current Assam Govt.
attempted to change the state's name from Assam to Asom, the present
spate of protests and opposition to the move generated by your and our
recent petition is illegitimate, or without merit, as an important
minister from this administration implied recently in Guwahati?
*** So, who is to blame? Couldn't be Dilli, couldn't be the USA as you so
effortlessly posed. It thus must be the Oxomiya Jaati , forfeiting its right to
redress, as you imply, right?
WRONG!
*** The REASON is that Assam govts., past and
present, were/are formed and operate in the
defective system with the dysfunctional
mechanisms that India devised, that have no means
for the population to hold the responsible
accountable for their unresponsiveness,
dereliction of duty and even the grossest of
violations of the trust that the people place in
them.
Compound that with the Indian system's abject
failure to put in place a mechanism for educating
the population in preparing for democratic
governance by inculcating them with knowledge
about their own roles and responsibilities; to
teach them that they must remain involved as well
and instead of remaining apathetic, uninvolved or
taking the stance of 'WHY ME?'
*** It is exactly because of the reasons above
that Assam governance just like its maker and
role-model, the Center, have been on a steady
downward spiral from where it started when the
Brtish left and has now reached a point of utter
disarray as is being played out everyday.
*** That is why radical reform is indispensable
for Assam ( and India too) to dig themselves out
from the mess they are mired in. But we know from
experience spanning decades that India is
INCAPABLE of such reforms. So Assam MUST do it on
its own, never mind India's incapacities.
But to do that Assam must be freed of the Indian
controls. And it must have control over its
resources to operate with freedoms to reshape
its future, charting a new course, incorporating
the BEST PRACTICES that man has devised so-far.
BTW, my Hindi never had been too good. My close
Indian friends from college days still joke about
it. It is so rusty now that I failed to
understand what you wrote. My guess is it is some
kind of a joke. But I don't get it :-).
Several years back returning to India after many
years, I was at a complete loss with the Dilli
taxi driver with whom our two children and I were
heading for Agra. Not to be deterred I went right
ahead with a liberal dose of Bengali, Oxomiya and
English interspersed with 'hai' 'choliye'
'somojh-me naahi ayya' 'maaf-kijiye' etc. But I
give high marks to the driver: He replied in
workable English and took me to Agra and back.
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