Dear Netters It is difficult to give an opinion without knowing the details of the proposed policies. Ethnicity and communality cannot be eliminated at the stroke of a pen at the Delhi Secretariat. Ethnicity is enshrined in the Constututuion of India. So far communities are concerned, lasy year the Gujarati Patels made a campaign to uplift their community. Six of the backward communities of Assam are hopeful of getting the status of being "Scheduled" by the BJP government. Funnily there are communal demands from the Brahmins and Kalitas too, communities supposed to be not socially and economically deprived.
Recently a famous filmstar of India made a specific reference to the plight of several hundreds of KashmirI pundits driven out of their homes from their State. Don't they deserve our empathy? Bhuban _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org