[Assam] AAMSU threat to Assamese

[Jyotirmoy Sharma]

 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.