[Assam] AAMSU: Which Side?: AASU and AJYCP should think twice

Tue Aug 5 03:11:40 PDT 2008

Dear all,
The judgment has been passed and the AAMSU-group, if dissatisfied, may approach proper forum seeking redress than commenting in the press against the judge. 
However, most people have missed one important aspect of the AAMSU leader's statement. He has invited AASU and AJYCP to join hands with AAMSU to go to the suspect areas to identify the foreign nationals and take recourse to lawful actions. This move should have come at the beginning of the Assam Movement from the myopic Assamese leaders of the AASU and Gana Sangram Parishad. Such a statesman-like move would have wrested the initiative from the so-called minority leaders or the parties like Congress, who later on masquarded as the saviours of the minority interest. Most importantly, such a confidence building democratic move would have won over the Indian Nationals (of the religio-linguistic minority communities) to the side of the Assam movement seeking deportation of foreign nationals. Instead, the AASU and the like minded forces rather played into hands of the short-sighted self-seekers that resulted in the sundering of the social fabric further.
Even now, instead of branding the AAMSU anti-national and playing into the hands of the divisive forces, they should grab this opportunity like true statesmen to ask AAMSU to prove its sincerity or the lack of it, by taking up the offer.

Uttam Kumar Borthakur

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Subject: [Assam] AAMSU: Which Side?

AAMSU: 
Which Side? 

The All Assam Minorities Students’ Union (AAMSU) has 
discovered something ‘political’ in the recent Gauhati High Court order on 
illegal Bangladeshis settled in the State and safeguarded mostly by the ruling 
Congress for cheap electoral mileage. The AAMSU discovery is not only ludicrous 
but also reflective of the discomfort it has with the very mention of illegal 
Bangladeshis being free to roam in the State and..more

details here: http://newsonnortheast.blogspot.com/2008/08/aamsu-which-side.html