Hi Chitta:
**** I am under great pressure to meet some
deadlines. I haven't gone thru the note in
detail, and can only give you just a brief reply.
A more detailed one and/ or follow up may have to
wait for as long as a month.
Your query is essentially to assert that the
nearly thirty year long conflict in Assam ,
including the loss of nearly 15,000 Oxomiya
lives, is not worth attempting to bring to a
just, honorable and sustainable end, thru an UN
supervised plebiscite because:
It will place India in a bad light,
"---to dub Assam as a disputed territory before
the world "
And to camouflage your misplaced priorities, you
manufactured the spectre of a series of conflicts
that you predict will arise from a demand of the
many ethnic communities that lived harmoniously,
in interdependence from time immemorial, to have
their own independent nations. It is exactly the
same tactic the Esomonline folks were banking on.
I thought explained this earlier in my WHY
INDEPENDENCE series a few months back, I lost
all my e-mail files from a computer glitch and
can't easily access them to re-post, even though
they are available in the archives of assamnet in
assam.org.
Anyway, let me take another quick stab at it:
Let us assume that Assam has become
sovereign, and those of you who wish to
sabotage this outcome , would want now to
have the many indigenous peoples
that constituted historical Assam demand
their own independent countries.
Very first things you would need to do
will be to explain to them how their newly
created independent countries will
sustain themselves. Mind you, that all benevolent
mai-baap of Hastinapur will no longer be
there to dole out Rs 10,000 for each man,
woman and child of these independent
states , per year, to keep their leaders
under luxurious bondage thru bribery; while their folks get nothing.
And once these peoples ( countries)
understand that, I will submit to you, that they
will understand very quickly the need to
stay and work together for their common good.
Now of course you will ask, how that working
together for the common good, does not apply with
India .
There is a very simple answer for that. But I
will let you do some serious thinking here and
see if you get it all on your own. I know
Krishnendu will be upset over this answer. I am
hoping you are a bit more savvy than he is.
But tell you what, if you seriously don't get it,
stay tuned. I think we will hear from Utpal and
it will surely lead to some answers for the
bewildered like yourself.
m-da
At 9:29 PM -0700 10/10/07, chittaranjan pathak wrote:
******That should pretty much place those who
are for Assam's continued servitude in a huge
majority and thus pave the way for a plebiscite
to put an end to the speculations, wouldn't
it?*****
*****IF you are for an end to the conflict, and
ULFA agrees to abide by the verdict of the
people, why do you invent excuses like that to
avoid the plebiscite, unless you really do not
believe what you profess, that the people don't
want sovereignty?****
Mahanta da
Just a small query based on your above two
statements! You have been saying that plebiscite
is a good idea and you claim (I hope I have the
usage right this time) that ULFA will also abide
by the results. I am not sure whether the
plebiscite card being waved here-is it a genuine
desire to know peoples mood or a ploy to dub
Assam as a disputed territory before the world
(as Ram da has indicated now and before)?
Let us assume that the Indians grant your wish
of UN supervised poll. Now tell us, will you as
an Assamese allow another UN supervised poll in
the north bank for NDFBs Bodoland? In addition,
some mini UN franchised polls in south bank,
Barak valley, Hill district to give them an
opportunity to decide whether they want to stay
subservient to an independent nation ruled by
Goswami, Gogoi and Gafoor. Some more micro-polls
within the Bodoland for fulfilling the
aspirations for Rajbonghis and within Assam for
the Aadivasis?
Now you might say that I am racing ahead to
muddle the situation. But is not the situation
precisely going to be like that given what we
have seen in last few decades:
An Asom Sahita Sabha for greater Assamese
society becomes one amongst some 20 ethnic
Sahitya Sabhas of Assam.
An all-powerful Assamese AASU leads the way for
numerous student organizations in the state.
Similarly, Bodo/Dimasa/Karbi/Naga secessionists
join an independent Asom seeker ULFA for the
same piece of land.
Now tell me if it is UN sponsored poll for your
ULFA then why not more polls for the other
mates? And where will it end?
Have you not visualized this situation? Or is
this UN plebiscite call is not for the actual
results but is a strategy to use it as a
stepping stone for some more turmoil.
If this plebiscite business is a genuine effort
on ULFAs part to gauge the mood of people then
why do you need to wait for an UN sponsored
exercise? Why don't you ask an Assamese
organization to conduct the exercise peoples
mood? Or Why ULFA along with all the team mates
(with whom aligns opportunistically to carry out
the cleansing operations) or its over ground
supporters do not conduct a scientific poll
again assuming earlier poll with 5% yes never
happened? Why do you people end up questioning
the credibility of Assamese poll-sters? However,
surprisingly you mention the organization in all
humility will accept the results of a poll
supervised UN in coordination with Deshi
government. Is not it strange the organization
and the supporters dont have faith on the very
people whose sovereignty aspirations they claim
to espouse?
Just to remind you again Mahanta da, the question was:
Will you as an Assamese allow another UN
supervised poll in the north bank for NDFBs
Bodoland, some mini UN franchised polls in south
bank, Barak valley, Hill district, some more
micro-polls within the Bodoland, Assam,
Dimaraji, Nagalim, Kamatapur for the
discontented lot within these sovereign
territories?
Regards
Chittaranjan Pathak
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