Hey Folks.
Do you all really think an assamese is as much an indian as you , from india's Mainland. Let's have a discussion on it. Lets discuss about the colonial rule of Mainland india in assam and it's outcome( An assamese is foreigner in his homeland and without even have rights over it's regions resources. )
Let's also discuss about the easy exploitation of it's resource, oil (since 1901, first by british then by india, assam is one of the few places in world where white gold is found, a special type of crude ), tea,coal, timber, water resources and rare varieties of flora by pharma companies.
In return , even the tea head office is in calcutta, every central govt schemes are implemented in mainland india first and then in north east.
An average assamese pays more to buy a kilo of rice, or a computer than other indian cities.
FROM 1950 TO 1960'S ASSAMESE PEOPLE HAD TO FIGHT FOR THIER LANGUAGE TO GET RECOGNISED AS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN IT'S STATE. IN 70'S THEY HAD TO BEG FOR A REFINARY EVEN THOUGH IT PRODUCED 65% OF THE COUNTRY'S OIL REQUIREMENT AT THAT TIME( ALSO THINK ABOUT OIL SCARSITY AT THAT TIME DUE TO DOWNFALL OF SHAH'S RULE IN IRAN, AND INDIA'S DEPENDENT ON IT'S DOMESTIC PRODUCTION). IN 80'S ASSAMESE HAD TO FIGHT FOR ILLIGAL EMIGRANT ( BANGADESHIS WHO WERE ALLOWED TO TAKE REFUGE IN ASSAM IN 1971 INDO - PAK WAR, REMEMBER THAT THE WAR WAS NOT BETWEEN ASSAM AND EAST PAKISTAN( NOW BANGLADESH) BUT ASSAM HAD TO BEAR THE OUTCOME.
90'S MADE THE ENTRY OF MNC'S INTO INDIA'S MAINLAND BUT NOT A SINGLE WAS ALLOWED TO MAKE IT'S MARK IN NORTH EAST.
PEOPLE OF ASSAM HAD TO FIGHT DEMOCRATICALLY FOR 50 YRS FOR THEIR BASIC NEEDS IN RETURN OF INDIA'S COLONIAL RULE. IN THE LAST TWO DECADES FEW ORGANISATIONS MOVED FROM DEMOCRATIC TO VOILENT MEANS OF GETTING THE ULTIMATUM (FREEDOM FROM INDIA'S COLONIAL RULE ).
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT WHY NATIONAL ANTHEM NEVER MENTIONS ANYTHING ABOUT NORTH EAST, WHY YOU DON'T READ ANY ABOUT IT'S CULTURES AND HISTORY IN CBSE BOOKS, ABOUT IT'S FREEDOM FIGHTERS ( OF INDIA'S FREEDOM STRUGGLE)
FEW POINTS TO BE NOTED :
NORTH EAST WAS NEVER PART OF ASHOKA'S INDIA OR MUGHAL'S INDIA.
NAGAS WERE THE ONLY COMMUNITY IN EAST WHOM BRITISH COULD NOT DEFEAT MILITARILY AND POLITICALLY BUT IN 1947 INDIA AND BURMA ANNEXED IT WITHOUT CONSULTING THE NAGAS ( FROM ORIGINAL NAGALAND 2/3 WENT TO INDIA AND REST TO BURMA ).
NORTH EAST ONE OF THE MOST GEO - ETHINO DIVERSITY AREA IN THE WORLD .
WHAT A FOLLISH TO BE ON THE PART OF NORTH EAST PEOPLE WHO, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE NOT INDIANS, FOUGHT ALONG WITH INDIANS(IN FREEDOM STRUGGLE), ALLOWED TO USE IT'S NATURAL RESOURCES FOR COUNTRY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PAID TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF MAINLAND INDIA THOUGH THE OTHERWAY NEVER HAPPENED (SAREGAMA EPISODE IS ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THE MAINLAND INDIA'S MINDSET)
I EXPECT A DISCUSSION IN THIS TOPIC.