Reza_Pahlavi:
This state has been wracked by decades of separatist violence which has killed thousands, and now ethnic/caste rivalry is getting very ugly as well.
Ethnic showdown looms in Assam
Organisations representing Bodo and Adivasi tribes people in India’s troubled north-eastern state of Assam are heading towards a showdown. They have both been threatening the state’s beleaguered coalition government with “dire consequences” unless it addresses their differing political interests. “The Assam government is caught in a nutcracker,” says analyst Samir Das of Calcutta University. “Balancing the rival interests will not be easy because the Bodos and the Adivasis have a recent history of considerable violence.”
**Separate state **
One Adivasi girl was even stripped and chased through the streets in full view of television cameras . The Scheduled Tribe issue could put the Bodos back on a war footing . The locals were upset because the Adivasis had smashed their shops and vehicles during protests earlier in the day. India’s central government has also promised to give sympathetic consideration to the Adivasi demand - not the least because they constitute nearly 20% of Assam’s electorate and have traditionally voted overwhelmingly for Mr Gogoi’s Congress party. But at the moment, Congress does not enjoy a clear majority in the Assam legislative assembly and depends for survival on the support given to it by the Bodoland People’s Progressive Front (Hangrama faction). On Friday, a meeting of six Bodo political and student groups in the western town of Kokrajhar threatened to resume their campaign for a separate state if the Adivasis were granted recognition as Scheduled Tribe.
‘Fulfil aspirations’
"We have strongly opposed any move to grant Scheduled Tribe status to the Adivasis who have migrated to Assam. “The government should not try to compensate the Adivasis for what had happened in Beltola by granting them Scheduled Tribe status, diluting the rights of the indigenous tribal people of the state,” Daorao Dekhreb Narzary, a former Bodo student leader, said after the meeting. The groups attending Friday’s meeting might not be as powerful as some of their leaders believe, but analysts say that they do have the support of the Bodoland People’s Progressive Front (BPPF) that controls the Bodoland autonomous territorial council in western Assam. “The situation resembles a second class compartment in an Indian train. Those who have got in with some effort will always try to block others from entering the compartment so that they can stretch out a bit. They don’t want to share the pie,” says analyst Samir Das. Meanwhile, Mr Gogoi says his government wants to “fulfil the aspirations of all communities in Assam”. But he admits dealing with an “either-me-or-him situation” is not easy. His party needs the political support of the Bodo party to survive in power for a full five-year term. But it also needs to appease the Adivasis to win a future election in the state. **The two groups themselves have made little effort to reconcile their differences, and much of the animosity so obvious between them during a bloody internecine feud in western Assam during 1996-2001 still lingers. ****More than 800 people died and a quarter of a million people were left homeless. **
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Ethnic showdown looms in Assam
are you Gupshup Journalist for Indian Region :hehe::rotfl::smack:, everyone knows it and they read them on New paper and what do you want to discuss here
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India's Assam state
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Now do tell us why there is so much ethnic, tribal and caste hate in places like Assam? Why have thousands of people been killed in various forms of terrorism/violence over the last few decades in Assam?
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India's Assam state
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Oh dear another touchy Indian that does not want people to mention things about their country.
Now do tell us why there is so much ethnic, tribal and caste hate in places like Assam? Why have thousands of people been killed in various forms of terrorism/violence over the last few decades in Assam?
do you think no one visits BBC, if the link is from some unknown site list here and we can discuss...
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India's Assam state
OK even if you want to know ask a Assamese guy and not to people who don't know anything ( i guess noone here from Assam )
Ok, Assam is not part of India?
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India’s Assam state
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India’s Assam state
Ok, that’s something I learnt so far about Assam.
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India's Assam state
Ok, that's something I learnt so far about Assam.
so no discussions, why do worry when no muslims are killed there, first find out how many streets are there in Karachi...
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India’s Assam state
***Who is that everyone?
Many here in GS did not know about problems in Assam…
Human Rights Violations by Majority over Minorities…
That is shameful Indeeeeed…26 million people don’t matter…
What an attitude…
Thanks for posting Reza Pahlvi…
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India’s Assam state
Who is that everyone?
Many here in GS did not know about problems in Assam…
Human Rights Violations by Majority over Minorities…
That is shameful Indeeeeed…26 million people don’t matter…
What an attitude…
Thanks for posting Reza Pahlvi…
Good joke, who are minorities here…
Re: Ethnic showdown looms in India's Assam state
Who is that everyone?
Many here in GS did not know about problems in Assam..........
Human Rights Violations by Majority over Minorities...........
That is shameful Indeeeeed...............26 million people don't matter....
What an attitude............:(
Thanks for posting Reza Pahlvi.........:)
Anytime buddy. We're all here to learn about each others countries. Indian's learn about Pakistan from Pakistani's, and we want to learn about their country from them. But it appears some India's are not too clued up on some of the major problems afflicting their country. :(
i think it is, i have seen India map many times 
see India is very Big and has 28 states and 7 Union Territories
