Aggression by unfamiliar people
Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said that unfamiliar people (osinaki manuh) have been out to grab the political rights, economic power, and everything of the indigenous people of Assam.
Speaking after hoisting the National Flag on the occasion of Independence Day at the Veterinary Playground at Khanapara in Guwahati, the Chief Minister said, "I foresee that the Assamese nationalism has come to such a critical pass that if we the Assamese opt to be mute spectators, we will lose everything we've - jaati, maati and bheti - in the coming ten years. In the coming 15 years, 80 per cent of the council of ministers in the state legislative assembly will be from among these unfamiliar people. And in the next 20 years, an unfamiliar face will unfurl the National Flag on the occasion of Independence Day as the chief minister of the state. We'll perish."
The Chief Minister said, "The demographic change taking place in the state has reduced the population of the Assamese, tribal people and other Indians to 60 percent. It won't take much time for the unfamiliar people to cross the 60-40 gap. The then chief ministers Gopinath Bordoloi and Bishnuram Medhi did sound the alarm bell regarding the aggression from these unfamiliar people. However, in the past 75 years, we compromised one way or the other. We gave them shelter and welcomed them to our Borghor (main dwelling house). They gained courage and encroached upon our xatras and other cultural institutions. After grabbing lower and central Assam, now they are on the way to grab upper Assam and north Assam. If we opt to be mute spectators, the day is not far when these unfamiliar faces will capture the Nilachal Hill where the Maa Kamakhya Mandir is. I'm not painting a gloomy picture of the future. I just want to make the people of Assam see the unvarnished picture."
A determined Chief Minister said, "I and the people of the state are, however, not ready to accept that happening. We need to put up a united fight against them. This fight is not of weapons but of self-pledge not to sell our lands to such unfamiliar people, not to rent our houses to them, and not to allow them to encroach upon any government land, besides making ourselves workaholics to be self-reliant. I told the district administrations that the government will hold them responsible in the event of a single plot of government land going under encroachment. Thousands of bighas of government land going under encroachment is the glaring example of the failure on the part of the district administrations in the past. For a secure future of the GenNext, we are fighting against the aggression by the unfamiliar people, and our fight will continue."
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