The United Liberation Front of Asom has said it is ready to hold talks with the Centre provided the government agrees to safeguard the sovereignty of Assam. In a statement released here on Thursday night, the proscribed outfit’s chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa further said they will come out for negotiation with the government within a period of 24 hours once the central executive body is allowed to meet. Reacting to an article on ULFA in a local vernacular daily by writer Suchibrata Roy Choudhory, Rajkhowa said it’s their central leadership who have been striving for an amicable solution to the Indo-Assam conflict. The outfit has further alleged that the power-that-be in Delhi has been shying away from resolving it with a political negotiation.
PermalinkSubmitted by Bhim Guwahati on Mon, 14/07/2008 - 03:22
The ULFA leadership is an insult to Assamese peoples. They have undertaken the most irresponsible and grotesque actions - in the name of freedom of Assam. Yet, they do not have the manhood, to even for once clarify the foundation of their struggle. They do not state their definitions of the two most important questions:
1. Who is an Assamese (and who is not), and
2. Where is the map of the Assam that they want to liberate?
Without answering these two questions, the ULFA leadership cannot claim to represent Assam and the Assamese. If you look at the NSCN-IM, they have done a fabulous job of defining who a "Naga" is, and the shape and size of their proposed Nagalim country.
Therefore, the Assamese people should bring the ULFA leadership to task, and get them to either stand up and answer questions that make sense, or shut up and get out.
If the ULFA leadership wants to lead Assam, they should surrender immediately, and lead the Assamese country by surrendering to the Indians and taking power like AASU did in the 1980s; through the voting system.
There is a mismatch between what the ULFA leadership wants, and what the Assamese peoples wants. ULFA leadership wants the issue of sovereignty discussed. Most Assamese peoples wants to figure out how to live in a flooded river basin. ULFA wants to get their jailed leadership freed, some Assamese peoples want the Bengalis to simply go back to Bengals (east and west). ULFA leadership wants a free Assam, the Assamese peoples wants ULFAs, SULFAs, BULFAs, the politicians, the police, the army and the rest of the idiots to go away for good. The ULFA leadership wants a long serious discussion with the Indians, over many years, regarding the right of Assam to be sovereign; while most Assamese people wants to figure out how the municipality system should work, so that garbage gets picked up everyday.
There seems to be little that’s in common with what ULFA leaders want, and what the Assamese peoples wants.
If ULFA leadership cannot leave their "lifestyle" in Bangladesh, and lead the Assamese people now, at the time of their most need, then they are not needed at all.
There are people within our Assamese nation, who will not wait forever for the ULFA leadership to show their manhood. The clock is clicking. The ball is in ULFA leadership's hands, they can wait and meet their fate, or they can start leading the Assamese peoples and walk the talk. If they make a good attempt, and they turn out to be incompetent leaders, at least they gave it a shot. The ULFA leadership wants to win sovereignty without winning hearts of the Assamese peoples.
As a personal opinion, after all the lives that they have destroyed in the Assamese country, I see no value in their continued activities in Assam. As a full blood Assamese, I call on all other full blood Assamese peoples, to stand up, and join me in democratically kicking out ULFA and their leadership, out of our country, and stop their rule of tyranny.
Cordially,
Bhim Guwahati
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