[Assam] Demands for Separate states in India

[Chan Mahanta]

>  >Divisive agenda? Actually it was power grabbing and a whole lot of
>corruption amongst the leaders.

*** I am trying to understand what you present, trying to read the 
underlying message. Are you suggesting that these folks, unable to 
seize power through 'legitimate', desi means, decided to grab it 
through the agitation, forcibly removing the legitimate powers who 
were occupying the 'gaddi' while Assam smoldered?

It is hard for me to comprehend this. Would you care to explain the 
legitimacy and effectiveness of those who got thrown out by the 
agitators ?

*** But the point  I was making, and you digress from, is that the 
people of Assam, ( excepting the Bengali speakers and the 
Hindiwallas), by and large did close ranks behind the agitators, 
didn't they? And it included Bodos, Misings,Karbis, Ahoms and even 
Bamuns. Am I incorrect about that?


>and a whole lot of corruption amongst the leaders.

*** Corruption is NOT an innate condition ( you ought to have learned 
that by now Ram--tsk, tsk :-)), it was an effect, of falling prey to 
the dysfunctional desi-governmental system and its vested machinery. 
They did not realize that merely a turn-over of the people at the 
wheels of this system was not going to be enough to make a difference 
for Assam. It required radical overhauling, if not entirely replacing 
the defective, antiquated,hand-me-down machinery of a colonial past.

>  >Aren't the new 'andwlon' leaders now
>fighting for 'independence' cut from a similar cloth? Are they any different

*** You keep making the same mistake over and over again Ram :-). It 
is NOT the people ALONE that matters. It is the machinery that 
requires major overhauling. Of course better trained, able and 
passionate operators are required too. The good news is that Assam 
has plenty of those. The question is HOW to bring them on board? And 
how to get the right apparatus for them to work with.

>  >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, Ram, Ram! You are letting your guard down --- your saffron 
is showing :-)!


c-da




At 10:41 AM -0500 8/26/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>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