[Assam] AAMSU threat to Assamese

[Ram Sarangapani]

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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