[Assam] AAMSU threat to Assamese

[Ram Sarangapani]

>How about extending the tent and teach the camel how to co-exist. :)

That is a good thought - but what if the camel wants to bring its friends
along too, and there are no more tents. After all, the camel may need to get
first preference.:) :).

--Ram da


On 7/31/07, Mridul Bhuyan <mridul_mb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think it is neither possible nor practical to push out the camel *
> now* after all those long years. How about extending the tent and teach
> the camel how to co-exist. :)
>
> Mridul Bhuyan
>
> *Jyotirmoy Sharma <jsharma at iinet.net.au>* wrote:
>
> That's a good story and amply reflects the current situation in Assam.
> We are in a situation where the camel is already halfway in the tent. It
> has to be pushed out before it pushes us out.
>
>
>
>  On 31/07/2007, at 9:46 PM, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>
>  There is this story of the Arab & his camel.
>
> It goes something like this (for those who don't know the story).
>
> The Arab had pitched his tent for the cold Arabian night (after having fed
> the camel).
> After sometime, the camel asked the Arab :"the night's so cold, if I could
> just put my nose inside the tent"
> The Arab, being kind-hearted and compassionate, readily agreed.
>
> Once the camel had his nose in, he wanted to get some more of himself
> inside the tent, and as predicted, the Arab agreed.
>
> As the night progressed, and well into the morning, the Arab found himself
> well outside the tent, while the 'poor' camel was resting comfortably
> inside, occupying the whole the tent.
>
> Late in the morning, the Arab, asked if he could share a small part of the
> tent - and guess what the camel told him............:) :) and how many of
> you think the Arab got his tent back?
>
> (no grand prizes for correct answers:))
>
> --Ram
>
>
> On 7/31/07, Jyotirmoy Sharma <jsharma at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > From the Sentinel editorial.
> > I guess some(very few though) would laugh it off just as they have
> > been laughing off the threats of the lungi menace or call it Islamic
> > phobia.
> > I strongly agree that their guts to threaten the Assamese people in
> > lower Assam comes from numbers - that lower Assam -Dhubri, Goalpara
> > and Barpeta have become their strongholds.
> > Would any minority organisation be able to threaten the majority in
> > any state in any country? What would be the consequences would be
> > anyone's guess
> > JS
> >
> > First they want a separate council.
> >
> > The AAMSU Notoriety
> > Last Saturday, Ajijul Hussain Khondakar, chief organizing secretary
> > of the All Assam Minorities Students' Union (AAMSU) came down heavily
> > on the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) for the latter's new and just
> > initiative to flush out illegal Bangladeshis from Asom, especially in
> > the wake of the oust-Bangladeshi drive in neighbouring States.
> > Khondakar also branded AASU advisor Samujjal Bhattacharyya as a
> > ''Congress agent''. Take it this way: even if one believes that
> > Bhattacharyya is a Congress agent, it does not produce any great
> > unsettling effect, compounded by treason and conspiracy to decimate
> > the Asomiya society, as the effect produced in the AAMSU's show of
> > solidarity with illegal Bangladeshis after, of course, defining them
> > as Indian 'minorities'. Which means even if Bhattacharyya is a
> > Congress agent as the AAMSU would have us believe, that is not making
> > him prone to any allegation that he is an agent of the ISI and
> > Bangladeshi fundamentalist and terrorist organizations. (Just think
> > how easily one would brand the AAMSU and its other varieties as
> > cohorts in the ISI-Bangladeshi design for Asom.) Which further means
> > if Bhattacharyya is indeed a Congress agent — hear this now, Mr
> > Khondakar — the AAMSU should have nothing to say against him because
> > a Congress agent, not mainstream leader, would obviously do
> > everything clandestine to consolidate the Bangladeshi vote bank in
> > Asom; after all, it is the Congress that has had the unique
> > distinction of having worked out the perverse definition of illegal
> > Bangladeshis in Asom as Indian 'minorities' to be eventually followed
> > by even the AGP during its Dispur days. Mr Khondakar, are you still
> > talking sense then?
> > Be that as it may, the AAMSU notoriety is actually manifest in its
> > assertion that it would go all out to protect the suspected
> > Bangladeshis, who are being chased away by neighbouring States like
> > Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, because they are not illegal
> > Bangladeshis but Indian 'minorities'. And then, the AAMSU also
> > threatened the Asomiyas in lower Asom of retaliation if the oust-
> > Bangladeshi drive continued in the State which, as it would say, is
> > nothing but an Asomiya ploy to harass the 'minorities'. The question
> > is: How can an organization like the AAMSU have the guts to talk of
> > retaliation against the Asomiyas in Asom? It can be answered in two
> > ways. One, today the AAMSU mentality stems from the fact that most of
> > lower Asom is dominated by what it calls 'minorities', thanks not
> > only to illegal immigration from Bangladesh but also to their
> > fertility rate. Today the AAMSU is confident of saying anything
> > against the Asomiyas when it comes to lower Asom, because the
> > organization knows how safe it is, and how safe the 'minorities' are,
> > in this part of Asom. It is pretty clear who most of these so-called
> > minorities are. And two, the AAMSU has the guts to talk against the
> > Asomiyas because they foresee how Asom will look like, say, 10 years
> > down the line — as part of a greater Islamic state or, to use
> > 'secular' language, a greater Bangladesh.
> > It happens only in Asom, this AAMSU audacity to speak against the
> > people of the State — the majority — despite living in this State,
> > using its resources, and of course thriving even at the cost of the
> > indigenous populace. And it happens because a meek government has
> > chosen to place the party and its 'traditional' vote bank above the
> > cause of the motherland.
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