[Assam] Demands for Separate states in India

[Ram Sarangapani]

C'da,

>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.

Divisive agenda? Actually it was power grabbing and a whole lot of
corruption amongst the leaders. Aren't the new 'andwlon' leaders now
fighting for 'independence' cut from a similar cloth? Are they any
different? No, no, I could be wrong here, there may actually be an
infusion of new ideas here - you know from B'Desh and the ISI. :-)

--Ram





On 8/26/06, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
> > 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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