Friday, January 12, 2007

Is Assam the Next Kashmir?
ULFA fulfilled it's promise when it said that it was pulling out of negotiations.But still the state and central governments kept sitting over the issue.The result is not startling but disgusting,ULFA butchered 70 migrant workers to cleanse Assam of migrants but none of the 4 million Bangladeshis who are spreading like a cancer.
The message is clear,ULFA and it's masters want to start a Assamese & migrant conflict,the result their demand for sovereign Assam becomes stronger.How?once the conflict starts,or atleast it is triggerd,ULFA can claim that Assamese are fighting for their identity,which is endangered by the influx of Hindi speaking workers.Initially Hindi speaking workers are evicted (which has already started),which makes the link with India weaker and Bangladeshi muslims are already majority in 1/3rd of districts.

So the broth is ready for a bigger problem.But is'nt it something familiar......Kashmir...

Flash back 17 years,year is 1989.....year starts with JKLF turning violent,and slowly a pattern emerges.Hindu families are singled out in locality,threatened,and finally butchered.Whoever fears his life,becomes a refugee in his own country.Has to leave his own house,flourishing business and sometimes ........Slowly the valley is cleansed of kafirs,and Muslims are the majority,which makes Pakistan claim stronger,that a Muslim majority area belongs to Holy Land.

Flash back further 42 years,1947,year of partition,Jinnah actually wanted Assam as a largerpart of East Pakistan.Though,East Pakistan is now Bangladesh,but the mindset has not changed.Even the demographic compulsions force Bangladeshis to move to more habitable areas which are Assam & Bengal.And it is much easier in a country like India where your national identity does not matter until you vote for the party.So we have a Central govt which answers the Supreme Court that Bangladeshis cannot be stopped because it is our friendly neighbour.Does one allow one's neighbour to loot his wealth & property in the name of friendship?

And a CM which denies that there is any illegal migration when in some districts YoY growthis seen around 20%,highest in the country.

The solution is simple but simple solutions are the most difficult to implement,Do'nt talk to ULFA,hit them and hit them hard so that they do'nt rise again.
Start a faster eviction of Bangladeshis (not hundreds in a year but in lacs in a year)
Monitor demographics of border districts closely and give incentives to retired defence personnel to settle there.

But this will not come from a weak,lame government but definitely through awakened,nationalistic people.