Title: Re: [Assam] Sunil Nath in Tehelka
>But this whole thing is predicated upon whether there IS a problem,
whether Assam has any legitimate grievances or demands.
I think you may call it my desi
gene. I donot understand what you are trying to say here. I think Roy's whole
proposition was to come up with a set of alternate practical demands for
negotiation with GOI. But if you question the very basis and legitimacy of
such demands, and an Assamese suspects that Assam may not have any
legitimate demands at all, then how one will negotiate with GOI and on what
basis GOI will grant anything to Assam. Without your knowledge you are
also making ULFA's sacrice and their struggle for the last 25 years a Hobo Diok
type of big joke for Assam. You are saying something like Tarun Gogoi who
is saying now that there is no problem of illegal immigration problem in
Assam. The question is how then you support Roy in his proposal to come up
with a set of alternate demands. Are you suggesting that someone should again
come up a set of alternate demands purely on emotion like ULFA did 25 years
ago.
It must be our desi gene that I
cannot understand you
I say Hobo Diok.
Rajen
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:06
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Sunil Nath in
Tehelka
But this whole thing is predicated upon whether there IS a problem,
whether Assam has any legitimate grievances or demands.
Those who cannot acknowledge that to begin with, cannot possibly embark
on developing those demands to bring to the table with GoI, can they? If they
do, they would be some of those despicable characters that attempt to have it
both ways.
At 9:55 PM -0500 6/29/05, Barua25 wrote:
>If forces
outside the ULFA want to influence the terms of negotiation and get their
ideas about what a secondary set of >demands ought to be, they ought to
go about forming public opinion on this independently of the ULFA and hope
the >organization will echo them in their own political
interest.
I agree in
principle to this idea. In fact I had been voicing for such a platform
for a long time. This we may call the Assam-GOI platform, outside of
the ULFA-GOI box (virtually ignoring ULFA). This is a must for
the Hobo Diok Assamese whether there is ULFA or not. The idea is to
come up with a set of sensible legitimate and rational demands for
Assam which ULFA itself cannot raise on technical grounds. For obvious
reasons, ULFA cannot (and should not) enter this platform during the
negotiation phase for reasons pointed out by you. (It would be incredibly stupid if the leaders of the
ULFA were to say we want independence for Assam and, by the way, lets also
talk about handing over the rights to oil extraction to the state
government.). In fact ULFA should
understand that this Assam-GOI platform is going to discuss issues which
ULFA cannot on its own discuss or negotiate due to the position they are
taking. This way ULFA can achieve something without loosing face. Once GOI
has agreed to grant some agreed broad issues to Assam through this
Assam-GOI discussions, ULFA can later join the platform activley in
finalization of details.
Now the
question is what may be a set of such demands. This is not easy that one can
just come up with a list. It will need indepth study of Assam's onging
problems. I am really surprised that so far there has not been any such
platform among the Assamese population for discussion of these problems.
Even among the political parties there is no such
discussions. Frankly speaking this means that we donot know what we
want for Assam short of sovereignty.
In order to
quantify what we want and why we want we need to discuss among
ourselves, intellectually and rationally, so that we can decide what is in
Assam's best interest short of sovereignty and short of trying to throw the
Indian system out.
Rajen
Barua
.
----- Original
Message -----
From: "Roy,
Santanu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday,
June 29, 2005 9:04 PM
Subject: RE:
[Assam] Sunil Nath in Tehelka
> I think one
should not forget the logical contradiction between demanding sovereignty
and making public a set of supplementary demands. This holds no matter how
unlikely or unrealistic the event that the GOI is going to agree to grant
independence. Sovereignty is virtually all encompassing. It would be
incredibly stupid if the leaders of the ULFA were to say we want
independence for Assam and, by the way, lets also talk about handing over
the rights to oil extraction to the state government.
> Even if the
ULFA leadership is not Harvard trained, they have at least shown the
intelligence to not say something like that.
> If forces outside the
ULFA want to influence the terms of negotiation and get their ideas about
what a secondary set of demands ought to be, they ought to go about forming
public opinion on this independently of the ULFA and hope the organization
will echo them in their own political interest. But they should not expect
that at this stage (and even many stages ahead), the ULFA is going to go
around publicly voicing the details of their minimum acceptable
point.
>
Santanu.
>
>
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