[Assam] Demands for Separate states in India

[Chan Mahanta]

>  > If GOI cannot
>re-engineer thusly with its bigger resource base, I
>doubt it will ever come to such a pass in a free Assam
>with a proportionately much lower resource base and a
>long line of "extractors" of very doubtful track
>records already waiting to appropriate resources.



*** Is this some kind of an irrefutable or unchangeable natural law 
:-)? What does RESOURCE have to do with the ability to re-engineer a 
state's governance?

India is incapable because of its deeply fractured polity, and its 
behemoth-like size.

But Assam, in spite of its diversity, is a far more manageable 
entity, that can and will close ranks behind an enlightened  agenda. 
The 'andwlon' was a good example that it could be done. Unfortunately 
the 'andwlon' leadership had a divisive agenda, was uneducated about 
how to form a government and reform it to move forward. They young 
folks thought that changing of the guard was enough to take them to 
the promised land. It was a profoundly  faulty perception as it 
proved to be in very short order.











At 7:11 AM -0700 8/26/06, Rajib Das wrote:
>This is where it turns to the realm of the
>non-existent.
>
>>  *** An Assam that is free to re-engineer its
>>  governance with tools to
>>  exact accountability and set up deterrence against
>>  non-performance,
>>  can immediately turn things around on this front.
>
>An Assam will never be free to re-engineer from the
>ground up in as much as GOI is not. Everything
>extracts a price. The revolution that will supposedly
>foster in a free Assam will extract a price. Those
>that support the revolution (and I don't mean what I
>think are the non-existent toiling masses) will
>extract a price. Those who will need to switch over
>from their current political cocoons to help the
>revolution foster the "freeness" will extract a price.
>There would be too much of the extraction going by the
>track record of the "extractors".
>
>>
>>  A governmental bureaucracy that is not sustained by
>>  a treasury that
>>  steals from those who PRODUCE and re-distributes to
>>  the
>>  non-performers  in the form of life time employment
>>  regardless of
>>  productivity would immediately react to the fact
>>  their "xaandoh-khwa
>>  baali tol-jowa" ( the demise of the golden goose)
>>  situation.
>>  All of a sudden the bloated and un-productive
>>  bureaucracy will be a
>>  thing of the past.
>
>Is that a mission statement of free Assam or
>Chandanda's free wish? If all that is there in free
>Assam, I doubt it will ever happen. If GOI cannot
>re-engineer thusly with its bigger resource base, I
>doubt it will ever come to such a pass in a free Assam
>with a proportionately much lower resource base and a
>long line of "extractors" of very doubtful track
>records already waiting to appropriate resources.
>
>>  Ensuing social turmoil?
>>
>>  Some of it is bound to happen. Everything has a
>price.
>
>I am sure Manmohan Singh must also be sitting in his
>high chair, wishing he could re-engineer the
>government and throw out government employees and
>wishing away the "ensuing social turmoil" with the
>flick of a hand. Unfortunately I am sure he
>understands that social turmoil would devour him.
>
>And no, the case would not be any different in a free
>Assam.
>
>
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