Sentiment of poor people and delimitation process
A lot of Villagers in Assam are crying due to the delimitation process. They don’t know how to express their views. For example, we all know that Makhibaha and Bhojkuchi villages are integral parts of Greater Tihu Mauza. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has excluded Makhibaha and Bhojkuchi villages from the proposed 40th Tihu constituency and included them in the 38th Barkhetri constituency. I have no doubt about the people of the proposed Barkhetri constituency, but Makhibaha and Bhojkuchi have a special relationship with Tihu. The proposed Barkhetri constituency has no geographical affinities with Makhibaha and Bhojkuchi villages, which are integral parts of Tihu Mauza. Education, medical care, Business, and Administration in Makhibaha and Bhojkuchi villages are all located within a 1/2 km radius of Tihu Town. I have never been against the delimitation process, but sentiment is also part of democracy. This is not the problem of only two villages; this is the problem of most of the villages in Assam, but they don’t know how to express their feelings and rights!
Partha Pratim Mazumder,
Kazipara, Nalbari
Clash of exam dates
Through your esteemed daily, I want to draw the attention of the Ministry of Home Affairs, which recently announced the Tier-II date of its Intelligence Bureau Security Assistant/Executive exam, which is going to be held on July 9, but it is clashing with the Assam Public Service Commission Mains Exam and the RBI Grade B Tier-I exam. It is my humble request to the Ministry of Home Affairs to postpone the exam to a later date so that serious candidates like us are not deprived of appearing in the exam.
Noopur Baruah,
Tezpur
The darkest chapter
25 June 1975 was the day when a state of emergency was declared by the then PM of India, Lt. Indira Gandhi. Almost all the top opposition leaders of the nation, including Lt. Morarji Desai, George Fernandes, LK Advani, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and others, to name a few, were put behind bars overnight. The entire media was stifled. It was and is the darkest chapter of the nation’s history after independence. All sensible patriotic Indians in the nation still remember those black days with utter horror and disgust.
As it happens in nations politics, politicians believe that public memory is short; hence, some political leaders, namely Rahul Gandhi, the uncrown prince of Congress in particular and the grandson of Lt. Indira Gandhi, have started speaking about democracy, which they trampled 40 years ago, and liberty for all faiths, including the Sikhs, after the 1984 carnage in Delhi. The diasporas attending his speech in Cambridge and the USA recently, where he showed his true colours, should be identified and branded as traitors. We, the public, know everything, and our memory is not short.
Lanu Dutta Chowdhury,
Guwahati.