RE:Assam Movement against illegal migrants from Bangladesh
by arun singhal on Apr 18, 2008 03:08 PM Permalink
Yes, it was the first movement against bangaladeshis in India far back in 80's when a group of young people had the vision of future. What happened ? The commies of west bengal who are descendants of these bangadeshis raised a hue and cry that the movement was against bengali speaking people and urged the centre to take harsh actions. Led by Indira Gandhi the helm at centre crushed the movement as anti-national which was supposed to be a patriotic call for elimination of bangladeshi. Atal Behari Vajpayee in later days accepted the fact that his party should have supported the movement and not supporting it was a grave mistake. Now the bangladeshis are everywhere in India. Start another big movement, the bengal commies will shout again for sure.
RE:Assam Movement against illegal migrants from Bangladesh
by Sam on Apr 18, 2008 02:33 PM Permalink
Ya I know a bit. The initial target of the agitation was the Hindu Bengali community in Assam. Then the Assamese used to freely talk about becoming independent from India. The talk was 'we will supply oil to other countries and they will give us whatwever we need'. So the agitation was clearly anti-national. This was later cleverly concealed and it was projected as if its against the Bangladeshis. In the final phase, the movement gave birth to terrorists who kill Hindi-speaking Indians for ISI and are based in Bangladesh. The Assamese never had the guts to oppose the Bangladeshis as a section among the Assamese were against it. Moreover 'secular' political parties such as Congress & CPM opposed it.
Assamese people in general are anti-bengali as they cannot compete with Bengalis anywhere in India. So they wanted to ensure that they at least win in their 'homeland'. The net result is you see numerous Assamese people working as security guards and helpers in the metros today. This has happened because there are no economic opportunities in Assam at present as the agitation has ensured that the entreprising and capable people, primarily the Bengalis and Marwaris, have left the state and the Assamese are unable to fill this void.
Irony is Raj Thackrey is taking the same route in Maharashtra now. Will the result be the same? Very possible.
