Letters to the Editor: Blessing in disguise

The recent Batadroba incident and its subsequent political and social fallouts should be considered as a blessing in disguise for the bona fide Asomiya populace. The incident very simply exposes the total lack of security of the sons and daughters of the soil. Western Assam and parts of the central parts of Assam are areas where we are in a microscopic minority and are at the mercy of marauding Mir Jumlas. Of course, the rejuvenated Assam Police under DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta is making an all-out effort in spite of hostile media and compulsive Oppositions. The so-called secular political parties, namely century old INC, AIUDF, Raijor Dol and AJP have already started leg-pulling due to reasons best known to the public. The whole nation knows that we are super-sensitive and are easily swayed by emotion as seen in the last anti-CAA agitation launched by an apolitical body named AASU and backed by AIUDF, Congress and Leftists. The anti-CAA stir died a natural death and the firebrand ex-AASU leader bit the dust in the last Assembly election.

All said and done, we hope that at this critical hour AASU, ABSU, AATSA, AJYCP in particular will rise to the occasion and save us as Late Bharat Ratna Gopinath Bordoloi did just before Independence. Jai Ai Asom.

Dr Ashim Chowdhury,

Guwahati.

City woes

Quite a few editorials and readers' views have been appearing in your esteemed daily almost regularly, but no feasible steps appear to have been taken by the powers that be. The Chief Minister's recent 2-hour evening visit of the city cannot resolve the real problems being faced by the citizens. The topmost problem is regular breakdown of water supply in the erstwhile Zoo Road, now under the infamous Jal Board, which is playing with the consumers' sufferings. For more than a month now, water is supplied on alternate days for hardly 20 to 30 minutes. Nobody knows the real reason and how long the consumers will suffer. They are, however, made to pay for the non-service. The second problem is non-maintenance of bye-lanes, causing unimaginable suffering to the citizens. I may mention the Rukminininagar Path, a very busy road connecting GNRC-Beltala Road. A stretch of about 500 metres is full of potholes and a mini sidewalk in front of the house of Late Bhumidhar Barman, has become a virtual death trap with two-three slabs missing. Thirdly, GMC has not cleaned the drains for the last 10 months and has instead the garbage collection charges for a flop non-service. The newly elected Councillor has also not visited the area after the election.

PK Gupta,

Rukmininagar.

Policy of minority appeasement

India is a secular democratic republic, the only one of its kind. Being a secular nation, every citizen has the right to judiciously follow his or her own religion with freedom. But very alarmingly, the very policy of secularism has produced a dangerous policy of minority appeasement for the sake of votes to grab power. This policy has given birth to few super secular leaders, namely Mamata Banerjee alias Didi, Arvind Kejriwal, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi, father and son duo of Abdullah, Begum Mufti etc., to name a few. The latest entry is Asaduddin Owasi, the AIMIM boss from Hyderabad, a State belonging to the then Nizam who refused to merge his State with India after Independence. The Nizam's loyalty to Pakistan is history. Naturally, Owasi being a descendant of the Nizam, will have a pro-Pak attitude, as evidenced by his activities. It is only because of the certain loopholes in the Constitution of our country that Owasi and company, along with some sleeper cells like INC, SP, AAP, Communist parties are bleeding the nation from inside. Our bravehearts are being martyred, but some leech-like politicians are eating our country from inside.

It happens only in a secular democracy like India, where secularism has become one-way traffic. Asaduddin Owasi is today's Indian Jinnah.

Joel Gayari,

Tangla.