[Assam] Assamese Media's role on Arvinda Rajkhowa's Arrrest

[Chan Mahanta]

 >It is interesting to note that it needs Chinese persuassion to keep  
alive the demand of sovereignty.

*** Not so simple! While the argument could be made to taunt the ULFA  
or other such insurgents, freedom fighters and the like, it is hardly  
an argument for the thoughtful for or against such a movement or for  
its justification or absence thereof.

The fact remains that  arguments such as those made by Prafulla Gogoi  
and others, namely negotiating with the Nagas without Phizo and  
implying that the fire of that uprising has been extinguished are  
patently absurd and are not believable even to the most gullible. Too  
bad it takes someone like Subir Bhowmik to point it out in an article  
in a Bengali paper.  Not to suggest Kharkhowas are not up to realizing  
such, just that their voices don't get the exposure they deserve.


 >The autonomy within constitutional frame-work could have been  
bargained, without waging a war,---.

*** Aah, the power of what could have been! Indeed there were so many  
possibilities. The most obvious and credible one would have been for  
the Indian state and its puppets in Assam to PROVE, by putting in  
place the reforms that are so direly needed and prove to the people of  
that  land that better governance and a fair shake and broad-based  
progress is entirely possible under Delhi's rule.  Surely thirty-five  
years was long enough a time to show something for it. Who are we  
kidding?



 >And even if the present ULFA
> capitulates before the Indian State, there are numerous marginalised  
> elements churned out by the Indian system to take up their fallen  
> flag. Unless this source is cured, we will have enough fodder for  
> waging our war of arguments here.

*** And THAT is the point.




On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:15 PM, uttam borthakur wrote:

> Sushanta,
>
> Thanks for sharing Subir Bhowmik's report. Yes, his information are  
> quality information and he is good at his analyses too. It is  
> interesting to note that it needs Chinese persuassion to keep alive  
> the demand of sovereignty. The autonomy within constitutional frame- 
> work could have been bargained, without waging a war, in the manner  
> the likes of Akhil Gogoi are doing by involving the affected people  
> at large to fulfill their kind of demands. But, if the ULFA has to  
> come down from their position of sovereignty, they better capitulate  
> and beg apology from the people of Assam for all the carnage that  
> can be attributed to them. In that case, where is the justification  
> of any talks with them: after all, the movement initiated by the  
> ULFA, whether right or wrong, was not to make Sri Rajkhowa or Sri  
> Baruah Chief Minister/ Home Minister, as was agenda of Assam  
> Movement leaders like Sri Mahanta and Late Phukan, or was it? And  
> even if the present ULFA
> capitulates before the Indian State, there are numerous marginalised  
> elements churned out by the Indian system to take up their fallen  
> flag. Unless this source is cured, we will have enough fodder for  
> waging our war of arguments here.
>
> Uttam Kumar Borthakur
>
>
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