These intellectuals should now stop talking and do something about it -- like
patrolling the borders and tackling police corruption and connivance.
Umesh
Pradip Kumar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Influx will turn State into another Kashmir
By A Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, April 12 Leading intellectuals of the State, who gathered at a
meeting at the Paltan Bazar Srimanta Kristi Bikash Samiti Naamghar here on
Tuesday, expressed their serious concern over the continuous influx from
neighbouring Bangaldesh. They also warned that if allowed to continue unabated,
this influx would ultimately turn Assam into another Kashmir in the near future.
Already, people and cultures of the countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh and
Malaysia and states like Kashmir were tormented by similar influx of people of
other religions. Assam has become the latest victim of this phenomenon and now
this has been posing a serious threat to Assam and the culture of its people.
A planned campaign is launched to encroach upon the land of the sattra
institutions of the State and the number of the encroachers is proliferating at
a tremendous pace. This has been rapidly reducing the Hindus to minorities in
the State. The encroachers have already killed some of the sattradhikars of the
State. The indigenous women are also not safe in the areas dominated by these
people, said the intellectuals while addressing the meeting.
The speakers at the meeting also resented the fact that despite a High Court
order to evict the encroachers from the sattra land, the State Government had
displayed inertia in this regard and alleged that a conspiracy was on to make
Assam a part of greater Bangladesh.
They also criticized the ongoing process for delimitation of the Assembly
constituency as a part of a grave conspiracy to rob the indigenous people of
their hegemony over State politics.
To combat the menace, they suggested unity of the Hindus of the State, saying,
only this could work as the panacea to the influx-related affliction of the
State.
In addition to this, the speakers also laid stress on adopting an appropriate
work culture by the indigenous people, besides mounting pressure on the
Government to effectively check the influx problem.
The meeting, which was presided over by former Commissioner and Secretary to
the State Government Dr Rohini Kumar Barua, was addressed by former Director
General of the National Museum Dr Rabin Dev Choudhury, former editor of The
Sentinel DN Bezboruah, former editor of the Dainik Asam Dhirendranath
Chakravorty, former Vice Chancellor of Tezpur Univiersity Dr Kishori Mohan
Pathak, former Dibrugarh Univeristy Vice Chancellor Kamaleswar Bora, chief of
the Srimanta Sankar Sangha Karuna Kanta Kalita, Asam Sattra Mahasabha president
Bhadra Krishna Goswami, NE Haridev Sangha secretary Kanteswar Kalita, Eksaran
Bhagawati Samaj president Dayal Krishna Bora, Advocate Kuntala Deka and noted
writer Atulananda Goswami, among others.
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