[Assam] Anti-ULFA slogans resonate in city - Sentinel

[Chan Mahanta]

>The BJYM leader said that the Centre should immediately impose 
>President's Rule in the State for the State >Government's failure to 
>tackle the activities of the ISI and other Islamic fundamentalists 
>in the State.



Heh-heh! This looks like a BJP  vs Congress battle. ULFA just happens 
to be a convenient catalyst.











At 6:30 PM -0600 5/30/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>Where is all that much touted support? Not in the villages, nor in the cities?
>____________________
>
>Anti-ULFA slogans resonate in city
>'Paresh Baruahar dalali nasaliba'
>By a Staff Reporter
>GUWAHATI, May 30: Anti-ULFA slogans resonated in the air in the city 
>today when hundreds of people responded to the call of a number of 
>senior journalists and writers, and took to the streets with a 
>protest march followed by a rally. The Bharatiya Janata Yuba Morcha 
>(BJYM), on the other hand, took out a separate procession and staged 
>a dharna near the Dighalipukhuri in the city demanding immediate 
>imposition of President's Rule in the State for the failure of the 
>State Government to tackle the activities of the ISI and other 
>Islamic fundamentalists in the State.
>Responding to the call of as many as 14 senior journalists and 
>writers like Dhirendranath Chakravarty, Ranen Kumar Goswami, Rupam 
>Baruah, Nirupama Borgohain and others, over 100 activists of various 
>organizations like the Athgaon Binapani Samiti, Brihattar Athgaon 
>Rajohuwa Samiti, the Assam Public Works (APW) etc took to the 
>streets from the Guwahati Press Club (GPC) to the office of the 
>Deputy Commissioner and returned to the GPC where they held a rally. 
>Slogans like aah oi aah, ulai aah; khed oi khed; ULFA khed (come and 
>drive the ULFA away), ISI hoshiyar (ISI, be careful), PCGik eghoria 
>kar (outcast the PCG from the society), Paresh Baruahar dalali 
>nasaliba (broker Paresh Baruah's policy won't be allowed), Dhakar 
>adesh aami naamaanu (we won't obey Dhaka's diktat) etc rocked the 
>thoroughfares of the city from the GPC to the DC office and back 
>when the processionists began to shout slogans against the killing 
>in the city and the State by the ULFA.
>Speaking at the rally later, Ranen Kumar Goswami said: "We don't 
>want an independent Asom as demanded by the ULFA, and we will never 
>accept the diktat of Dhaka or Islamabad. The ULFA should stop 
>killing in the State or else the people of the State won't remain 
>mute spectators".
>Meanwhile, there was a hot altercation between BJYM president Dilip 
>Saikia and district Magistrate CK Bhuyan on the permission for the 
>procession taken by the BJYM against the State Government's failure 
>to bring the law-and-order situation under its control.
>The BJYM leader said that the Centre should immediately impose 
>President's Rule in the State for the State Government's failure to 
>tackle the activities of the ISI and other Islamic fundamentalists 
>in the State. The BJYM staged a dharna near the Dighalipukhuri in 
>support of its demands.
>
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