[Assam] A 3-Pronged Strategy for PEACE in Asam

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From: Pallavi Barua <pallavi_borua at yahoo.co.in>
Date: Feb 1, 2007 8:32 AM
Subject: 'A 3- Pronged Strategy  for  PEACE  in  Asam'
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                       *Sub**:    A  3- PRONGED STRATEGY*

*              *Since the days of the movement for ousting the British
colonialists, the masses of Assam/ Asam/ Asom (?), have been following the
'Gandhi format' of agitation. Post-1947, whether it be in the case of
emotional upsurges like the Bhasa Andolan 1960 or the Anti-foreigners
Agitation 1979-83, a large section of the Asamese/ Assamese/ Asomiya (?)
have developed the habit of strolls in the form of processions, rallies or
sit-ins like dharnas and demonstration while some start totting guns. The
latest fad is 'Talks'.  These means won't bring in a 'piece' of Peace.
             Again there is the genocide formula adopted both by the ULFA
and the Indian Army. Ethnic crisis cannot be solved by ethnic cleansing; be
it killing of Biharis by the ULFA or torturing Asamese youths to death by
the Army. The 'best' example showcasing the Futility of Genocide is the
World War II. Neither Hitler succeeded in wiping out the Jews nor the Jews
succeeded in rooting out the Nazist Forces. The fallout was disaster on both
sides.
              Keeping aside superficial issues like religious or cultural
simmilarities with India, Asam ought to continue being a part of the Indian
Union for pragmatic reasons of 'Defence' and 'Finance'. While doing the
same, the socio-political-economic identity of the Asamese/ Asomiya have to
be ensured. For this, a 3-pronged strategy needs to be implemented. They are
-----

1. *Land Ownership to be bestowed exclusively to the people speaking an  *
*    indigenous language of the State or region*. Any Asamese/ Asomiya found

    selling his/ her land to a Hindi-speaking person would have to hand over
his/
    her landed property to the State government. If the land is situated
near
    forest areas, the same would be used to increase forest cover for the
State's
    benefit. This arrangement is a must for the sustainance of a numerically
    weak population in a Federation when compared to numerically huge
    communities adjoining it, ever ready to swarm any available land at the
    slightest pretext. *With the immense connectivity by means of roads and*
*    railways, such undesirable influx has spiralled. Rigidity in Land
Rights *
*    is the best means to boost confidence among the Native population and *
*    thereby arrest ethnic violence*. The city-dwelling Assamese middle
class as
    well as the elites, who have been soaked in the new found 'Alcohol of
    Consumerism' can hardly imagine the demographic upset caused by influx
in
    the areas meant for reserve forests et al.

2. Labourers working in Asam (be it from Bihar, Nepal or Bangladesh), has
to
    produce *work-permits not extending 6 months *right at the railway
stations.
    Special booths or Checking counters need to be erected in the
rail-stations
    of Asam to check undesired influx as done in air-ports.

3. *Introduction of Dual Citizenship*. The Government of the Indian State of

    Tamil Nadu has come up with the issue. The Government of Assam too
    should cash in at the moment by joining hands with its counterpart in
TN.
    It would be an examplery step in the part of a Congress Govt of a State
to
    show that it can speak out even when the same Party is in Power at the
    Centre. That would end the oppurtunistic harpings of regional parties
which
    crop up from time to time out here.


              The politicians of the State ought to put their heads together
for some pragmatic solution. If not for the people's sake, they might do it
for their own. Thats because unlike Assam which lets all sorts of exiled
scamsters like Mani Kumar Subba, Gulam Osmani, Matang Singh contest
elections from the State, no other part of the world would welcome them. Nor
there would be respite for their off-springs for whom they pile up
fortunes. When one's Native Land is lost, though the person might be a
millionaire, he/ she ends up being called a 'Refugee'.



Yours etc.,

Pallavi Barua,

Maniram Dewan Path,

Guwahati - 781 003.





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