Bajrang Dal holds self-defence training camp in Mumbai

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,

Mumbai: The Hindu extremist outfit Bajrang Dal held in Mumbai a 3-day training camp concluding on Sunday meant to train youths in self-defence and make them aware about religious conversion and other issues.

During the camp held at Sion Koliwada in Mumbai Hindu youngsters aging between18-35 were taught how to use lathis, swords and air rifles for self defence when needed. About 110 youths attended the camp.

According to a report in The Asian Age the outfit had not taken any permission from the police for organizing the camp. Umesh Gaikwad, convener of the Mumbai division of Bajrang Dal has been quoted as saying that the camp was part of the camps held around Diwali and in December for three days and during summer vacation for seven days.

During the camp the youths reportedly took part in a discussion on how the Islamic jihad was responsible for recent terror attacks.

BJP in a quandary with temple and terror cards

By Amulya Ganguli, IANS,

The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) cosy world of emotion-driven politics has been turned upside down by the Mumbai tragedy.

From the late 1980s, the BJP has used ultra-nationalist postures to garner votes. These ranged from the movement to "liberate" the mythical birthplace of Lord Ram in Ayodhya to the pillorying of the Congress for being soft on terror.

The Ramjanmabhoomi agitation led to the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya and catapulted the BJP to power in the mid-1990s. After that, when the party failed to build a temple at the site of the demolished mosque, it turned to playing the terror card, accusing the Congress of not being serious against terrorist attacks so as not to alienate its Muslim supporters.

The results of the latest round of elections, however, have shown that this argument is losing its electoral potency.

Needless to say, the party is in a quandary with just about six months to go before the next general election. Not only has it lost what it considered a surefire ploy to garner votes with its xenophobic propaganda, some are wondering whether it has lost touch with the younger generation as well.

These misgivings have been caused by the BJP's defeat in the Delhi elections, where it had projected the 77-year-old Vijay Kumar Malhotra as its chief ministerial candidate.

Although the Congress' Sheila Dikshit is also a septuagenarian, she gives the impression of having a modern outlook, apparently because of her polished English, ready smile and brisk, businesslike ways. In contrast, the dour Malhotra was a typical representative of the BJP's original base of support in the city comprising the conservative-minded Hindu traders and refugees from Pakistan.

Since the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, L.K. Advani, is an octogenarian, the BJP must be now wondering whether he will appear to the younger set as the right man to lead the party in the second decade of the 21st century. Half of India's population is below 25 years.

Such doubts may also be fuelled by the increasingly active role 37-year-old Rahul Gandhi is playing in Congress politics, blaming the hierarchical structure of security agencies for their failure to prevent the Mumbai carnage. His criticism of the excessive focus on safety measures for VIPs also suggested that he is echoing the feelings of a large section of upper and middle class Indians.

The government's appointment of the energetic P. Chidambaram as the new home minister will reinforce the belief that the Congress is finally ready to face the present-day challenges. His observation that the terrorist attack was on the "idea of India" underlined the party's championing of the country's multicultural polity.

In contrast, the BJP may well be seen as a prisoner of the past. Not only is it still being seen as a pro-Hindu party, the attacks on Christians in Orissa, where it is in power, showed that it had little control over the rabid elements in the party and in its fraternal allies like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal.

True, the BJP won in the two states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. But these victories were based on the non-controversial and pro-development images of their chief ministers, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Raman Singh. That the two leaders eschewed the Hindutva-oriented approach of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP's mentor in the saffron brotherhood, showed they have understood that such appeals to atavistic sentiments are no longer effective.

The defeat of the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Uma Bharati, known for her fiery pro-Hindu rhetoric, also demonstrated that the voters were turning away from crude sectarianism.

The BJP will be in further trouble if the combined pressure exerted by India and the US compels Pakistan to act against some of the "non-state" actors in the country, who are being held responsible for the attack on Mumbai and also other acts of terrorism. It is obvious that the threats of "unintended consequences", which America has held out to Pakistan if it fails to act, is a result of the closeness of India-US ties in the wake of the nuclear deal. Yet, it is a measure which the BJP had opposed - an unwise decision which may backfire on it with even greater force now.

The BJP's problem is that if it dumps Hindutva and switches to a development-oriented approach, it will earn the wrath of the RSS and the VHP for opportunistically abandoning the Hindu agenda. And if it does not lay too much emphasis on terror, the party will be accused of being as "pseudo-secular" as the Congress. This phrase, coined by Advani during the temple agitation, will come back to haunt him.

But that's not all. The apparent uselessness of its two emotive planks - temple and terrorism - will mean that the BJP will have to reinvent itself in view of the failure of the political ploys which guided it for the last two decades.

The BJP had discarded its credo of Gandhian socialism in favour of the temple agenda in the early 1990s. Now, it has to look for a new slogan.

(Amulya Ganguli is a political analyst. He can be reached at aganguli@mail.com)

Mumbai horror exposed gaps in India's economic takeoff: expert

By IANS,

New York : The terror attacks on India's financial capital Mumbai revealed several chinks in the country's emergence as an economic superpower, a French scholar has said.

"The attacks exposed the weakness of the so-called Indian economic takeoff," Gilles Kepel, an analyst of the Islamic and Arab societies, said in an interview to Forbes.Com.

"The aim of the attack was mainly political, but the economic dimension is still visible," he added.

Kepel said India, Brazil, Russia and China may have double digit growth but most of the population lives in poverty.

"In India you have 150-200 million people who live by European standards and one billion who live in sheer poverty. Not to say that Muslims are necessarily poor, just as there are poor Hindus also, but this exposes a number of faultlines behind the Indian miracle," he said.

Supporting the viewpoint of India and the US, Kepel said the Nov 26 Mumbai attacks were carried out by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and reflected the group's usual modus operandi.

"They do not do suicide bombings because they feel that if they press the button on the suicide belt, they commit a grave sin against Allah's will. For them, Allah is the one who decides when he should take back the life that he has given. In committing suicide, even if it's for the sake of jehad, a Muslim goes to hell," he said.

Kepel's latest book, "Beyond Terror and Martyrdom", examines the future of relations between Islam and the West.

The author said one of the main objectives of the Mumbai attacks was to create tension between India and Pakistan so as to deflate the pressure on the militants on the Afghan-Pakistan border, where a massive operation is going on against them right now.

"By ratcheting up the tension and bringing India into the battlefield, the attackers aimed to turn Pakistan away from the Taliban and focus on tension with India. This would then alleviate pressure on the militants," he said.

Terrorism: BJP sings a different tune now

By Mubasshir Mushtaq,

One does not know whether Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, September 29 Malegaon bomb blast accused, did 'sing' or she is made to sing but Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has already chosen to sing a song. The singer is none other than a Singh who firmly believes that his ability to sing a song of 'cultural nationalism' will save his party. "Those who believe in cultural nationalism," said Rajnath Ram Singh, BJP president, referring to Sadhvi "cannot ever take to terror."

One does not understand Singh's definition of 'cultural nationalism' but he has been an inconsistent president of a party which claims to be truly "nationalistic." Is he the same Singh who sung the "terrorist" song immediately after the so-called 'encounter' at Batla House? Why did he sing a different song after the arrest of Sadhvi? Is it because of the difference in religious affiliation of those who were killed at Batla House? Or did 'acquaintance' prompt him to defend Sadhvi? The widely-circulated picture of Singh with Sadhvi does not incriminate him but as we say in journalism: A picture speaks a thousand words.

One must note that like the accused of the Batla house, Sadhvi remains an accused and not a "terrorist." A terrorist tag can only be accorded by a court of law.

Sadhvi has created so much confusion within the BJP. Initially, BJP disowned her when it was revealed that she was once a part of its student-wing, Akhil Bharthiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). BJP changed its official policy the moment Uma Bharati joined the strange enigma of Sadhvi. Uma Bharati was merely a political trap; Singh easily succumbed to it. After all, Singh and Bharati share the same saffron soul with varying degrees.

BJP's state of no-acceptance no-rejection of Sadhvi makes its case ambivalent.

A president of a nationalist political party should always stick to one song on a one theme no matter whoever may be the target audience.

BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad thought Singh's song was not enough and decided to write the whole script. His utterance was a good example of hysteria's triumph over common sense. "Why this lead (the alleged involvement of Students Islamic Movement of India in Malegaon 2006 cemetery blast) has not been followed in the 2008 blast?" Prasad asked.

Mr. Ravi Shankar should at least know that the motorcycle used in the blast was registered in the name of Sadhvi.

L.K. Advani, who has responded cautiously to Sadhvi episode, must take notice of his party's official ignorance.

Meanwhile the response of the saffron Hindutva groups has been highly intolerant. The rabid display of the 'majoritarian nationalism' or to put it more precisely 'mobocracy' went unnoticed in the mainstream media. Thousands of the saffron souls protested outside a Nasik court on November 3 where the accused were brought for the trial. They carried placards, chanted highly provocative slogans and openly defended Sadhvi and other army men allegedly involved in the Malegaon blast.

India, being a civilised democracy, gives a right to defend an accused. I am glad that Indian Muslims have never ever done such a protest outside a court. Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, did not witness any such protest when Bali bomb blasts' Muslim bombers were executed on the order of the country's highest court.

Nathuram Godse is dead but his legacy of hatred still thrives on. Himani Savarkar, Godse's niece and president of Abhinav Bharat – the organization allegedly behind the Malegaon blast – has advocated an eye for an eye theory. "If we can have bullet for bullet, why not blast for blast?" she has asked. She has even advocated that Indian Muslims should go and find a Muslim country to live!

Post-Independent India was infected with caste and communal riots. Now the bomb blast is an easy and alternative way to infect the body of India. It has begun to bleed with sickening regularity. Do we Indians realise that the war is no longer across the border? It is being fought within. China and Pakistan are not our biggest enemies. Our biggest enemies are fellow Indians who are striking at will wearing the cloak of anonymity.

Sadhvi episode has highlighted one crucial fact in Indian context: Terrorism is not a Muslim specialty. The bomb blasts in mosques in the Marathwada region (Nanded, Parbhani, Purna, Jalna etc.) were indeed carried out by Hindutva fanatics but government and intelligence agencies ignored it lest they antagonise the majority community. Army men's involvement in the Malegaon blast should not come as a surprise. Our intelligence agencies do have people who share the right-wing ideology. Those who have followed the Nanded 2006 blast will agree that the role of India's Criminal Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been highly controversial and biased.

Initially ATS suspected that SIMI was the behind the Malegaon blast. The ATS knew it from the day one that the killer motorcycle belonged to Sadhvi but yet they continued their combing operations in Muslim areas of Malegaon! The sudden 'right-turn' in the investigation was a result of Muslim resentment across the state of Maharashtra. Dozens of Muslim corporators belonging to Congress-NCP had sent their resignations directly to chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and home miniter R.R. Patil.

With elections round the corner, a dual-theory is being propagated by political pundits. Batla encounter was carried out to pacify Hindus and Malegaon arrests were made to "appease" the Muslims! Congress is being accused of playing a dual game.

A murmur has begun to develop in Muslim mohallas that Congress is indulging in a psychological war of perception management. Is Congress playing a game with Muslim sub-consciousness? We can't say with certainty. But at the same time it can't be ruled out. There is at least one reason to suspect. ATS is yet to apply the draconian MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) although they have slapped it on Malegaon blast accused of 2006. It is still being "considered."

Quite a Muslim question: Are there two set of different laws for two different communities? That's a question which Vilasrao Deshmukh needs to answer.

The Muslim vote will depend upon his answer and not mere lip-service as his government has been doing for the last 9 years. Sri Krishna Commission report is just the tip of an iceberg. The iceberg of genuine Muslim issues may sink Vilasrao's political boat.

This time 'nine days wonder' trick will not save Congress-NCP government.

A question worth-debating: Can Muslims of Maharashtra sing a different song?

My first Ramadan in Ukraine

Ramadan – it’s the name of the 9th month of the Islamic calendar ( Lunar calendar ). In this month – The Holly Quran was revealed by Allah to our beloved Prophet Muhammad ( SAW ) which helps the human society to follow the true path to God. All the Muslims welcomed the month warmly by offering fasting from dawn to dusk and put stressed on prayer. Fasting in this month is one among the five pillars of Islam. During this month doors of heavens are opened and doors of hell are closed.
I am a student, studying Medical Science 2nd year of Zaporozhya State Medical University, Zaporozhye, Ukraine and I from Manipur / N.E. My first Ramadan in Ukraine was one of the most unforgettable event in my life. As I am a Muslim I’ve to follow what’s inside the religion. The 1st of Ramadan fell on the 1st of September that all the Muslims in Ukraine began their fast. I stayed in hostel with two of my Muslim friends also from Manipur. On the eve of Ramadan we go for marketing specially for Ramadan. We bought some kitchen items and some sweets for Iftar. After Maghrib Sallah we started preparing food for dinner and for Suhoor too because our hostel kitchen closed at 12’ o clock . After that we offer Tarawih Sallah and we have it our dinner and started reading books for our next day classes. By 12.30 night we go to bed. We wake up around 3.30 am for having Suhoor and Fajr Sallah and sleep for few hours, after that I go to my classes. During break some of my non – Muslim friends asked me for coffee or sweets etc as they don’t know I am fasting and some are very co-operative, they too don’t eat anything and spent the break with me. Thank God for giving me such kind friends.
After passing some days, we didn’t get time for marketing, at that time we used to have Suhoor – rice with some dry meats ( the meat that my lovely old mother residing in my home – Manipur handover through my friends). At that time my eyes were filled with tears because even though I am staying thousands of miles away from her, still she tried to serve me the food made by her own hand. Oh !!!!. What a lovely mother …… I can’t ever find her, when I search the whole world. And I pray to Allah for her long life, the poor old mother who suffered long and always wants all her Childs to be true Muslim. And some times we used to be lazy or fail to wake up that time we used to fast without having Suhoor.
In the middle of the Ramadan some Iftar party were held in the University by the Muslim students. And in the night of Lai la’al qadar the holy night of the year we pray the whole night, we offered Sallat in Jamaat. In our hostel we have a free space on my floor about 8 meter to 6 meter where we do our Sallah and its very lucky for us. After couple of days Eid ul Fitr comes. On this day we got holyday from our University and offer Eid Sallah in our University gymnastic hall at 7.30 am. After that we prepare some special foods for Eid and invite Muslim and non Muslim friends in our room. We also visited our friends rooms wishing one another for Eid and cerebrate with them happily
The Fast helps in deep personal worship which brings closed to Allah and it cleans the soul and free from harmfull activities. Its also the way of sharing the pains of the poor who even doesn’t have the square of meals a day. Ramadan in Ukraine was not so hard as compared to my native place Manipur. So, I request to all my brothers, sisters in Islam Inshah Allah let’s try to abserve Ramadan in true spirit so that all the year we can be as like as we were in Ramadan.
Zayed Farested – Zaporozhye, Ukraine ( Originally from Imphal- Manipur / N.E. )

Bodo rebels involved in ethnic cleansing: Assam government

Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on 6 October 2008 - 5:24am
By Syed Zarir Hussain, IANS,
Udalguri (Assam) : Authorities in Assam Monday said the violence over the weekend that killed 32 people and injured more than 100 was systematic ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a rebel group fighting for an independent tribal homeland.
"The violence in the three districts of Darrang, Udalguri and Baksa was not due to clashes between the tribal Bodos and immigrant Muslims, but a planned ethnic cleansing by the NDFB to drive out all non-Bodos from the area," Assam government spokesman and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told IANS.
"We have already arrested four NDFB cadres Sunday with weapons who were involved in killing a woman and a child in Baksa district," he added.
There have been several incidents of arson overnight with panic stricken villagers fleeing their homes.
"Miscreants set ablaze a cluster of homes in about three villages late Sunday, although there has been no fresh casualty," a police official said.
More than 600 homes have been burnt since Friday, when clashes first broke out, and at least 60,000 people have fled their villages in an area controlled by the Bodo Territorial Council (BTC), a politico-administrative structure, formed after New Delhi signed a peace accord with the militant Bodoland Tiger Force in 2003. The BLT is now a disbanded outfit with its former members now heading the BTC, an autonomous body.
The former BLT and the NDFB are at war for territorial supremacy with bitter fratricidal clashes between them in the last four years claiming more than 100 lives. But the NDFB, currently in a ceasefire mode with New Delhi since 2005, has not given up its demand for an independent Bodo homeland with the Bodo community in a majority in the three violence-hit districts in northern Assam.
"This is not a clash between Hindus and immigrant Bangladeshi Muslims as projected, but a systematic pogrom by the NDFB as many of the people affected by the violence are genuine Assamese Muslims, Bengali Hindus, common Bodos, besides a few Adivasis (tea plantation workers) as well," the minister said.
The NDFB is a majority Christian outfit with the outfit's top leader Ranjan Daimary believed to be operating out of Bangladesh.
"We are investigating reports of the involvement of the NDFB in the clashes and if proved we shall be forced to call off the ceasefire," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said.
"Strict orders have been issued to the security forces, including the army, to shoot at sight anybody found indulging in violence," he added.
Of the 32 killed, 15 died in police firing, while the remaining were killed in clashes with armed mobs carrying bows and arrows, spears, machetes, and even guns.
"The NDFB cadres used light machine guns and other sophisticated weapons in targeting non-Bodos," the police official said.
Sarma said miscreants from various communities were trying to take advantage of the situation by indulging in arson with a view to looting properties.
"In the final analysis this is not a communal clash," he said.

‘Ethnic cleansing’ of Muslims on in Assam

Submitted by Tarique Anwar on 6 October 2008 - 4:11pm.
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: What is happening in Assam is not a communal violence, nor is it just a campaign against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. Rather, it is a well planned ethnic cleansing of Muslims, said Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, president of Assam United Democratic Front (UDF), a Muslim political party having 10 MLAs in the current Assembly.
Talking to TwoCircles.net from Darrang district in Assam today, Maulana Ajmal, who is also state president of Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, said: “Situation is tense but under control, more than 100 people have been killed in the ongoing violence and 200 critically injured.” Thousands of houses have been burnt and more than 1,20,000 people who have been rendered homeless have taken shelter in relief camps.
In the fresh spate of violence specifically targeting Muslims erupted on Friday in mainly three districts – Darrang, Udalguri and Baksa – and according to the official figure 35 people have been killed.
Today, however, no violence was reported. According to sources several victims have bullet injuries.
“The violence began on August 14 when in an incident 19 people were killed. The month of Ramazan, however, remained mostly peaceful. The violence again broke out in the night of Eid,” said Maulana Ajmal blaming the Congress-led state government for not controlling the violence and killings by the Bodo miscreants for political reasons.
“The violence against Muslims is politically motivated. Bodos are part of the state coalition government. They are in the ministry. As elections are round the corner, the government does not want to take action against the Bodo miscreants. It does not want to antagonize them, otherwise it could have controlled the situation,” points out Maulana Ajmal.
The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which the government says has perpetrated the systematic ethnic cleansing, is a rebel group fighting for an independent tribal homeland. NDFB is against the Bodo group which is part of the government.
The Bodo group that is part of the government is Bodo Territorial Council (BTC). BTC was formed after the Union government signed a peace accord with the then militant group Bodoland Tiger Force in 2003. The Force has since been disbanded and its members have joined BTC. Interestingly, the violence was launched by the NDFB militants in the BTC-controlled area, says an IANS report adding that the former Bodoland Tiger Force and the NDFB are at war for territorial supremacy.
As the NDFB is currently in a ceasefire mode with Central government since 2005, the Bodo group in the government wants to exploit the situation in its favor by pressing the government to again clamp a ban on NDFB so that they could sweep the coming elections, observes Maualan Ajmal and adds that Muslims have been made scapegoat in the internal Bodo politics keenly watched and supported by the Congress government.
In the violence-hit three districts Muslims constitute around 40% (roughly 3-3.5 lakh) of the population. Bodos are in majority and demand a Bodoland. Despite the overwhelming presence of Muslims in the region, the community was not made part of the accord New Delhi signed with the Bodoland Tiger Force, points out Maulana Ajmal adding that had Muslims been made party to the accord the situation would not have been such.
Director of Markazul Maarif (Mumbai) Maulana Burhanuddin Qasmi who keeps an eye on the developments in Assam told TwoCircles.net from Mumbai that in the violence-hit region Muslims have been living for 200 years, so it is absurd to say they are illegal Bangladeshi migrants.
“When these victims will move to the mainland, they will be branded as Bangladeshi illegal migrants as their houses have been burnt down and their documents of citizenship have lost,” points out Maulana Qasmi.
Maulana Ajmal was going on a foreign trip but as the news of violence came he cancelled the trip and rushed to Assam. Currently he is in Darrang, one of the three violence-hit districts.
His party UDF is making all efforts to establish peace in the region. Talking to TCN he demanded compensation for the victims and their proper and complete rehabilitation.
“UDF wants peace, compensation to the victims and their rehabilitation,” says Maulana. He is much concerned about the rehabilitation.
“In 1993 when the Congress was in power Bodos launched violence against Muslims. About 45,000 Muslims are still in camps. Congress again is in power and more than 1,20,000 are now in relief camps. We demand the government to ensure proper and complete rehabilitation for the victims,” he says.
The current victims have taken shelter in schools and madrasas. When these institutions will open, the victims will have to face problems.

The oust outsiders campaigned in Assam – its consequences

Part 2
One of the main theme of this long and complicated and delicate problem lacks is : Who are outsiders ? According to normal human being if his or her brain works a bit than this problem should be looked by logical viewpoint. One should go back to history and learn a little bit from it. Why the hate mongers ( AASU, AGP, AJYCP, RSS, BJP and the Brahmins ) are saying that – go out aliens and at the same time saying – Muslims are becoming majority. Or these hate mongers are having sleepless nights !!!! If one looks at the history of post 1947, than one will find who are king makers. Matang Singh, Moni Kumar Sudba even said that they can bring down the than Congress Government of H Sakia. Moni Kumar Sudba is wanted in a criminal case ( murder of his own brother in law ) in Nepal. Matang Singh is a criminal from Bihar. During the 70’s H Sakia was bound to speak in Hindi in Tinsukia. The hate mongers AASU agitation have killed 3000 innocent Muslims in a single day in Nelie in 1983. Who carried out the killings, if one looks than the lalungs, who were agitated by the RSS, and the RSS were carrying the AASU slogan. The Nelie is a handiwork of RSS with AASU, as it is famous that the higher caste hindus uses the lower caste hindus for their dirty work. If any one looks all the communal blood bath of India, than one can look who are the attackers, than you can find the lower caste or the dalit populations attacking the Muslims. The hindu higher caste are the commanders and sits in their well to do houses. The same things are going on in Assam / NE, the Brahmin S. Bhatacharjee leading all the anti Muslim program. Before S. Bhatacharjee , Brahmin P. K. Mahanta lead the role. It is said that everything is fair in love and politics. In politics anything can happen anywhere and everywhere. A doubtful Pakistani citizen contested the last general election as a candidate for Assembly seat from Jamunamukh constituency of Nagaon district. Fortunately he was discarded by the people of the constituency. Tezpur - the people had voted a doubtful citizen (a Nepali citizen) to win the Parliamentary Constituency of Tezpur consecutively for three times, even when the question of his citizenship controversy was pending in the court of law.

The oust outsiders campaigned in Assam – its consequences.

As on 9th of July, some section of the society in Assam have declared a war against the outsiders ( here it is mentioned as Bangladesh nationals ). Brahmin S. Bhattacharya along with his army of anti Muslims ideologist from AASU Sankar Prasad Rai and Tapan Kumar Gogoi have intensified the oust outsiders campaigned since than. The scenario remembers one of the 1977 problems in Assam. I want to mention two very important term – Xenophobic and Islam phobic, Xenophobia means fear of strangers and Islam phobic means fear of Muslim.
Than within after a short span of time a Brahmin Justice BK Sarmah of the Gauhati High Court have said that Bangladeshis have become ‘‘kingmakers’’ in Assam.

The organizations behind this oust outsiders campaigned – are mainly led by the AASU, AGP, BJP, VHP, RSS along with more organizations i.e. ,Axom Jatiyatabadi Yava chatra Parishad (AJYCP), All Assam Muttock Yuva Chatra Sanmilan (AAMYCS), All Moran Students’ Union, Mottock Yuba Chatra Parishad (MYCP) ATTSA, TMPK, Tai Ahom Yuva Parishad, Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS), Nikhil Bodo Students’ Union, ATASU, AASA, ASIO, ATTSA, AGP, Marwari Yuva Manch, Bengali Yuva Chatra Federation, Karmachari Parishad, All Assam Tribal Sangha, Sikh Samaj and Gurkha Students Union. Bengali Yuva Chatra Parishad, the Bangla Bhasi Asomiya Xantha, Banglabhasi Asomiya Samaj, Bhojpuri Students’ Union, Marwari Yuva Parishad, Purbottar Pradeshiya Marwari Sanmelan etc

On the other hand there are organization which are more or less on defensive mood i.e. Muslim Yuba Parishad, Asom (MYPA), AUDF, All Assam Minorities Students Union AAMSU ( 2 groups ) , All Assam Muslim Council, All Assam Khilanjiya Asomiya Musalman Parishad (AAKAMP), Asom Garia-Maria Jatiya Parishad, All Assam Muslim Yuba Parishad (AAMYP), Muslim Students Union Assam, All Assam Madrassa Students Association (AAMSA), Sadou Asom Khilonjia Asomiya Musalman Unnayan Parishad, Asomiya Muslim Unnayan Parishad, Gana Jagaran on Jamaat I Islami etc.
During these time one can hear names of some organization which were never heard before. Some of these organization which do not have a proper address or are managed by one or two persons.
On Aug 9 Anjali Daimari, the advisor to Indigenous Women’s Forum of North East India (Assam Committee) said “The influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh poses a grave threat to the indigenous or tribal population of Assam, which actually undermines their cultural and economic identity. However, inflow of non-indigenous people from within the country too could play an equally negative role in damaging the cultural, linguistic and material basis of the indigenous communities” and also said that “the first settlers of a land who have historical continuity in the land can only be termed as indigenous people of that land. Accordingly the Adivasis coming from outside Asom and settling here cannot be termed as sons of the soil ”

Mohammad Sadullah was the First Premier of Assam. Than Assam was much more bigger in area than is present time Assam. Assam was than a Muslim majority region, reason for which Muslim League came to power with Sadullah as the Premier. But with the Cunning Brahmin Gopinath Bordoloi – taking the lead from Congress, Assam became divided and many more small states came into being with his dirty politics. The results of the 1977 –85 problems led the Brahmin P. K. Mahanta to power. P. K. Mahanta came to power twice and ruled 10 long years. Except these two Brahmin ( G. Bordoloi and P. K. Mahanta ), no Brahmin could not come to power with Assam’s long history of existence. But now some Brahmin’s wanted to come to the power corridor of Assam through their nefarious tactics, famous of them are S. Bhattacharya, P. K. Mahanta, Dinesh Goswamy, and Hemanta Biswa Sarma.
End of part 1
Afdal Hussain

Why internal problems of J&K were not resolved

By Balraj Puri
ccun.org, July 27, 2008
There hardly seems to be any way the Jammu and Kashmir government can pacify the current angry mood in Jammu over revocation of the government order for the transfer of forest land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB). For any such step is likely to revive the flare up in Kashmir from which it just recovered. On the other hand the leaders of the current agitation who are riding on a spontaneous popular upsurge can ill afford to back out.
What then are the options for the leaders of the Jammu agitation which have declared to continue till the order is withdrawn? On the sixth day of the bandh, BJP national President and General Secretary Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley, came to Jammu to lend its support. The BJP and its Parivar organized a nation-wide Bandh on July 3 for the same cause; though with partial success. The party president proposed to raise the issue from 'Sansad to Sadak' (Parliament to Streets) and make it a poll issue.There is no doubt that Jammu had accumulated a lot of grievances over the years. The issue merely provided an outlet for the pent up anger. But the leadership of the agitation must ensure that investment of so much energy over the current agitation should address itself to larger grievances also.For that let us try to learn lessons from the earlier experiences and role of leaders of Jammu and where did they go wrong.
The first wrong decision they tool in recent times was, for instance, to support the Maharaja's desire for an independent state and thus delay its accession to India till Pakistan sponsored raid on Kashmir left no choice for the Maharaja and Sheikh Abdullah to accede to Indian Union and seek help of the Indian army to defend the state. The Sheikh did receive hero's welcome when he came to Jammu as the Head of the Emergency Administration. After initial goodwill for Sheikh Abdullah, disillusionment with him started growing in Jammu as he did not have any political base here and did not know how to share power with its peoples. He ran the administration though the National Conference leaders as its officers, for instance.
About a year later, I warned Prime Minister Nehru of the consequences of the simmering discontent in Jammu. His reply was that while a Kashmiri leader would be the head of the Government, Jammu's Maharaja would be the head of the state. This should satisfy both the regions. I argued that the arrangement was unjust to Jammu. For while political power will remain with Kashmiri leaders, people of Jammu would merely have an illusion that their man was living in the palace, who is a constitutional head would be without any power and would be inaccessible. Nehru told me "let us give this unstable stability a trial."
Trial did not work too long. The Maharaja and Sheikh Abdullah were not even on speaking terms. By June 1949, the Maharaja had to abdicate in favor of his son Karan Singh. There was again a movement for the "return of the Maharaja." It did not occur to the leaders of Jammu that the age of Rajas and Maharajas was over.
After a prolonged campaign, I was able to persuade Nehru and Abdullah to declare on 24 July 1952 at a joint press conference that "the constitution of the state, when framed would provide for regional autonomy." This would have provided a lasting solution of relations between Kashmir and Jammu regions, and to the Kashmir problem.
But the Praja Parishad, Jammu affiliate of the Bhartiya Jana Sangh, started an agitation on Delhi agreement on Centre-State relations, supplemented by the State-Region relations. Dr.Shyama Prasad Mukerjee the founder president of the Jana Sangh came to lend support of his party to it. He was kept in detention at Chashma Shahi house in Srinagar. During a prolonged correspondence with Nehru, he offered to support in his letter dated 17th February 1953, Delhi agreement and Article 370 provided regional autonomy was also granted. Nehru replied that this was granted in July 1952 and if he had realized his mistake , he should withdraw the movement. Mukerjee wanted some face saving device. Unfortunately his untimely death in June 1953 before the final agreement between death in June 1953 before the final agreement between his party and Nehru could be announced.
Meanwhile the state government sent a 45 page draft on regional autonomy to Durga Das Verma , the underground leader of the Parishad agitation. After consulting some constitutional experts , he returned the draft with his party's approval. Eventually the agitation was withdrawn after Nehru's assurance on regional autonomy to the Praja Parishad leaders , who after their release, went to Delhi to meet him on 3 July, 1953.
But according to Balraj Madhok , subsequent of the Jana Sangh , the party reversed this decision after some months on the direction of the RSS. To reverse the decision taken by Shyama Prasad and the Jammu Praja Parishad on a directive from the RSS was the biggest blunder that a party committed to the cause of Jammu. Thus Jammu missed an opportunity of getting a status of equality with Kashmir. Jammu missed another opportunity of acquiring such a status when Gajendragadhar Commission, in its report in 1967 on the basis of a representation of the Jammu autonomy Forum, headed by me, conceded in its report in 1967 that regional autonomy autonomy would be an ideal solution of regional grievances but it did not recommend it as the idea was opposed by most of its leaders. The national executive of the Bhartiya Jana Sangh which met at Shimla in the same year dubbed the idea of regional autonomy as anti-national. Despite its opposition the idea continued to gain popular support from all communities of Jammu region, particularly Muslim majority districts of Rajouri, Poonch and Doda as also most of the secular parties of India.
The J&K State People's Convention , convened by Sheikh Abdullah in 1968 , representing the entire political spectrum of the valley, adopted internal constitution of the state drafted by me which provided for regional autonomy and further evolution of power to districts, blocks and Panchayats. In early seventies when Indira-Abdullah talks were going on , Indira asked me to get Abdullah's commitment to regional autonomy. He reiterated before power was transferred to him; so that there was no opposition from Jammu and Ladakh to him. Abdullah agreed to call a convention of leaders of Jammu and Ladakh in 1974 where he reiterated his commitment. In 1996 when the National Conference government appointed a regional autonomy committee , headed by me, the BJP was the only party which boycotted it. Its opposition was used as an excuse by the government to reject my report. Regional identities are the greatest secularizing forces in the state. Any weakening of them might lead to divide the state on religious lines which is not in the interest of Jammu, Kashmir or the nation. There was a time when the BJP party and the government headed by it at the Centre had proposed for such a division. I argued with Advani, who was the deputy Prime Minister in that government of the dangerous consequences of the move. Eventually he agreed with my arguments and told me I am convinced that the remedy is worse than the disease. Then I argued in favour of regional autonomy as a solution to the Jammu problem. He was convinced of that also and asked me to revive that idea. The government law minister also declared that parliament had no power to abrogate article 370, which, in any case, had nothing to do with the Jammu problem. Meanwhile all Left parties and the socialist groups supported the idea of the regional autonomy. I wanted it to be included in the Common Minimum programme of the Congress and the People Democratic Party agreed upon after 2002 election before forming a coalition government. But Manmohan Singh told me that the Jammu Congress were not keen it to be included in it.
Recently National Conference passed a resolution in its favour. It could be a basis of a dialogue with all Kashmir centric parties. For if as per PPP leader Asif Zardari Indo-Pak relations cannot be held hostage to Kashmir problem, the leaders of Kashmir based parties should also realize that regional harmony should not be held hostage to what they call final solution of the Kashmir problem. Thus the national course that the Jammu agitation should adopt is to convert it into regional autonomy ; so that popular energy spent on it yields optimum results.

Samujjal Bhattacharya on July 09 have declare a war against the Muslims of Assam.

Samujjal Bhattacharya with his Anti Muslim organization AASU have declared vigorous and continuous agitation in Assam. The cause is too much of Muslims have given sleepless nights to him and his folk. Brahmin S Bhattacharya said that seven persons have being released from jail, this persons were arrested on the presumption of ISI agents. But the authority in Assam could not proof it and have released them. He along with his folk Sankar Prasad Rai and Tapan Kumar Gogoi have said that the war will start with the sound and instruments. The scenario reminds of the hindu fanatic pogrom of Gujarat 02. One should know that Brahmin have entered Assam / N.E. during the last 400 years. So Brahmin S Bhattacharya should know that – What right do he have to talk on behalf of indigenous communities ??? Sankar Prasad Rai is from the Rajbonshi community – which it self does not have a long history in Assam / N.E. The Ahoms who came to Assam were part of Shan tribes from which the word Assam has come. They were not influenced by the Brahmin religion before they came to Assam but sometime after the 14th century the Ahom Kings came under increasing Brahmin religious influence and like this the Brahmin conjured up a new kashatriya lineage for them. And in this way Ahom became followers of Brahmin religion and in modern time ended up with the lower stage of the Brahmin caste system. Though majority of the Ahoms follow the Brahmin religion but still they follow their Tai culture and tradition. So, it will be better for Brahmin S Bhattacharya and his illegal anti Muslim organization AASU to take some lesson from history and not to full the masses of Assam / N.E.