[Assam] AAMSU threat to Assamese

[Jyotirmoy Sharma]

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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