[Assam] reply to chan mahanta

[ranenkumar goswami]

Dear Mr Mahanta,
Thanks for the reply. It requires a great reserve of
stamina for writing the letter you have written. I
can't help but but appreciate that.

Now I would like to come to the point you have raised.
I wrote in reply to MM that the 
self-appointed guardians of Assam are maintaining a
self-imposed silence on illegal migration from across
the border. Are they not? Right now, Assam is in grip
of a turmoil centering issue. Its echo can be heard
even in Assamnet. Now, what is ulfa doing? Is it not
maintaining a silence and is this silence not 
self-imposed?      

When urged to clarify its stand on the foreign
nationals issue, on several occasions ULFA has said it
considers all those to be foreigners who have been in
Assam from August 15, 1947. Fine. By that yardstick,
even the Hindi-speaking people are foreigners in
Assam. From January 5 this year, ULFA started killing
Hindi-speaking people in upper Assam. On January 18,
Ulfa issued a statement in "Freedom", its organ,asking
The Hindi-speaking people to leave the State. Agreed,
for ULFA, they are foreigners. But what about the
Bangladeshis (or East Pakistanis from 1947 to 1971)?
Even without saying so, by its behaviour, Ulfa has
made it clear who are foreigners and who are not. It
maybe its way of expressing gratitude to Bangladesh
for the shelter Dhaka has extended to it. 

Otherise, I agree with you it's the primary
responsibility of the government to protect the
borders. We cannot and should not blame ULFA for that.
What I blame it for is the outfit's discriminatory
stand on aliens, friendly to Bangladeshis and hostile
to the Hindi-speaking.

With regards,

Ranen Kumar Goswami


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