Why the 'Tour of Duty' Army recruitment model is an illiterate idea?

As per a report on Timesnownews, the Indian Army has announced a new recruitment model on a pilot basis that will allow civilians to serve within its ranks on a three year short service 'Tour of Duty'.

Here is the link to that article.

A day after the announcement, the Print has published an opinion piece by retired Major General B S Dhanoa where the model was criticized by the Major General as a 'harebrained idea'. It spoke about putting young minds in a serious situation of real shells and bullets without enough training, questioned the peer support of the regular soldiers that these tourist soldiers would receive, and the possibility of political tourists getting into the ranks of the Armed Forces polluting the apolitical nature of the Armed Forces.

Here is the link to that article by B S Dhanoa.

Apart from the points mentioned in the article attached, , I would like to add a serious fallacy guiding this idea.The ‘tour of duty’ assumes a very flawed concept of ‘duty to the nation'. It assumes that army is the only duty worth for a true Indian. It indirectly signifies that farming, orphan care, old age care, teacher, professor, police duty, construction workers etc are not duties to the nation. It forgets that the pain of a death of a soldier is equal to the pain of a death of a farmer or a police officer. 

 

Do forgive me for selecting these duties among many others as examples, for I wanted to create an impact to bring home the point. The idea reeks of an appeal to the jingoistic hot young blood of the youths to fill the forces with low cost human resource.

 

The second point that I want to highlight is a bit shameful one, and a more serious one. One of the points put forward in support of the idea is that the army won’t have to pay them much. There will be no liability of pension and other benefits.Currently, the pension bill is almost 30% of the total defense budgets (I doubt it but that is the number the timesnow article quotes) and so this idea will save cost for the nation. This rationale given for the 'tour of duty' idea is a problem.

Firstly, a Govt that wins UP elections by taking help of the Army in their political hoardings and regularly invokes the prestige of the army for effect, is now being stingy to increase defense budgets for these young boys who would guard the real borders with real rifles facing real bullets. It only brings out the true 'bania' face of the Govt that it only increases its election budgets. All other budgets can be slashed even at the cost of real lives.

 

Secondly, if we want the young minds of India to taste the discipline of the forces for a time so that they can become better disciplined citizens then why are we not allocating extra budgets for such a novel idea. If the novel idea is to get cheap untrained army soldiers facing real bullets then it is indeed a very cunning self centered idea. It is against the cost of life of a citizen. It is against the citizens.

 

I would urge the Govt to consider defense decisions strategically from a long term point of view, with a clear vision to keep it as apolitical as possible. If we need more human resources, we need to either streamline operations and save operations cost, or increase budget to hire and train the additional human resources.

This Govt from 2014 has been very particularly visible in terms of taking thoughtless, knee jerk decisions. The worst was the PM saying ‘no Chinese inside India’, the worse was the ‘lock down in 4 hours’ killings 100s and bad was the sudden demonetization killing the entire economy to get it back to an even bigger cash economy!! Then you have the farm bills, removal of 370, breaking J&K into UTs, make in India ventilators, and the 21 day ultimatum to Covid 19 by the PM; and the list is endless.

 

I am just aghast at the number of stupidities that India has been so proudly executing in the last 6 years. Oh my India.

Life

Life has been such a ride from the start go. Everyday there is so much to understand.

As a toddler, I am told that I was Utpatia. It means close to a naughty restless kid. Perhaps my first date with life happened then when I flexed my arm to look at a vessel kept above a height to keep me away from the contents. I had to flex the feet, arm and hand to reach the upper rim of the vessel and pull it towards me. 

It had chilly powder. Truth did hurt. I had a swollen bear face and I am told that a litre of milk was poured on my face to ease the hurt.

From then I think it was this urge of knowing that made me open every toy before I did what the toy was meant for. Play.

Slowly, I realised that playing the toy won’t have given me the joy that I used to find opening it.

Some of the most memorable vessels that I have overturned and  toys that I have unscrewed and tasted the joy and pain of truth would be woman (and man), poverty, greed, ambition, career, urbanisation, hometown blues and parenthood.

When I wrote wrong answers deliberately on my compulsory NDA exam, and then refused an engineering degree to study economics in Cotton, it was one of my best search. Quitting my Deutsche Bank career to a life of spiritual growth in Duliajan with my parents was my second best ‘overturning the vessel’ search. 

I am still opening up toys. Only difference is that the toys are adult boring stuff like books, meditation and prayers. You see knowledge gets boring for a lot of people when it gets higher in terms of enlightenment. That is the reason why so few people read books, meditate and pray in the real sense of the word. Among my books, I prefer history, philosophy and spiritual studies. Interestingly, science do not interest me as well. I think the reason may be that I love discovery more than inventions.

For the thirsty, knowledge however is never boring. Knowledge starts with information and data and slowly converge into truths and then finally into one absolute truth.

All these years of search have brought me closer to the absolute truth, the one and only beauty. The truth that is nothingness. A happy nothingness. Every philosopher and spiritual guru has spoken of this one-ness in different languages and manner of speaking. I see exactness in the writings of Gurujona Srimanta Sankardeva, the great disciple Shri Shri Madhavdeva, Plato and even Osho... and so many other intellectuals in search of truth and truth only.

The truth is so blissful that you slowly feel no need for money, material comfort and even moksha.

::: Board Exams, Success, Happiness and that puff of a Cigarette :::

The mind is kind of naughty as well as mighty. 10th boards is perhaps the first occasion when it starts acting on you, and then it acts as if it tasted blood.

It will try to depress you and make you feel you are depressed. It will try to distract you by pumping adrenaline into your body, and will make you do things that would waste your time. A puff of a cigarette in secret is more exciting that arithmetic any day. Going to the market to get a glance of that special girl is more exciting than your essential work of the day. Sleeping late seems like the best time of the day.

We have to speak back to our minds.

For many of us, the urge that we had felt to get good marks that made us study for our boards is the key to success. Not the marks that we ended up achieving.

For Sania or Sonia or Rishi Kapoor, the urge may have been to play badminton, tennis or to act. Even their minds, naughty and mighty, surely tried to distract them. Every morning, even their minds tried to make them feel that they didn’t want to practice today. The thought blurb “Will do tomorrow” must have attacked them too. But they got a control on their minds and kept working as if it is their  duties - acquired or inherent.

In my experience, one of the important factors to excel in life is to control your mind to make it say, ‘keep working’. The outcome of a particular work is not important.

The outcome is just a goal or an objective. It’s not an END. Missing a goal should make us work harder or do a strategic decision of changing the goal perhaps.

Missing a goal definitely doesn’t mean we have failed. There is no failure in life. Even death is not a failure. It may just mean a rebirth for some, for another goal.

The outcome of the ‘Keep working’ philosophy is important. That is the only truth. The outcome is happiness. Happiness is the true goal and an end. But mind you, happiness is not a high. Snorting cocaine gives you a high. Happiness is not even a low.

Happiness to each one of us is different. I feel happy is an intensely personal feeling. When we KEEP WORKING, defeating the ugly machiavellian plans of the mind, defeating anger, defeating arrogance, defeating lust, defeating even a fighting spirit; we feel happy in our own personal ways.

Some may say, the backbenchers ultimately do well, some say the toppers do well but I say that one who keeps working does well.

Illiteracy only help us to bark..

He didn’t speak
when Dadri happened,
when Gauri Lankesh was shot dead...
.. and was dumbfounded when Palghar happened. He didn’t know what to say.

Now he has nothing to say when Corona is destroying us.

Then I realised he is illiterate, and is scared to realise that he doesn’t know what to say. Neither he has built a core team of bright minds for the fear of being exposed of his own hollowness.

Giving election speeches and one way pep talk is one thing; policy making, strategic thinking and crisis management requires serious education and exposure to concepts.

Illiteracy can only help is to bark.. running a nation is out of the question.

5 Urgents Step that India must take to tackle Corona crisis

It is scary.

Either the Government has not learnt any lesson from the experience of the 3weeks’ lockdown, or the PM is unable to express what the Government has learnt and has therefore acted on.

5 things if Government listens to me:

1) My guess is that March salary is more or less paid without cuts. A significant number of people won’t get April salary. This, in addition to the daily wage earner crisis will topple the country’s law and order upside down. Help the businesses to pay salaries. It’s difficult to put money into accounts as the Aadhaar project as an identity program got derailed to an authentication program. Pay the businesses to pay salaries as one of the cash programs. Other cash programs need more thinking. Perhaps paying to the merchant may be an idea. Start an outreach program now.

2) This is an emergency and food stocks need to be utilised like in an emergency giving it in every tehsil and blocks of the country. More emphasis should be given to the URBAN poor.  They should be given assistance that they will be taken care of. There should not be any documentation to be presented for food. Believe me, the people who has food at home won’t come out for free food, for fear of Corona. Wherever possible cooked food should be given, using the machinery of the mid day meal program. Most importantly, covid testing should be focused on these resulting activity areas. All distribution centres should be tracked closely for outbreaks.

3) Road / Water / Train Transport should be strategically opened with rules of minimum social distancing. Rules are as follows: 1) Make a map of buses and train routes that are a must to operate for migrant workers. 2) Only 36 Tickets to be issued per train bogey 2) One Ticket per seat of 2/3 in a bus 3) All state transports should pick the tab 4) No standing traffic in any of these public transport. 5) Clear announcements for only essential travel 6) Make approach to train and railway stations narrow / zigzag to minimise and regularise the flow of passengers 7) Increased testing /Tracking of Corona cases in these focused points of likely gathering. 8/ Change the ringtone to announce only essential travel

4) Strategic manufacturing and Goods transport must start with rules of social distancing. With reduced demand, these two sectors will anyway work less than capacity. Daily tracking of these regions for outbreak is a must. We must allow only closed group manufacturing setups and townships. A map has to be drawn.

5) Since we have limited testing infrastructure, we must focus this infra towards economic and social activity areas only, apart from testing the sick. Test, trace and close the area has to be done with increased focus.

Covid 19 like any living organism will try to survive all sorts of intervention, just like we are trying to survive. So it is quite likely that we can’t stop it from spreading. Complete lockdown has not flattened the spreading curve. One day the lockdown has to end and the virus will find its survival instincts. The only way is to spend the lockdown or semi lockdown stage to DISCIPLINE our civilisation into a structure where we see more permanent physical distancing at one side, and more testing and tracing technology on the other side. According to me, scientists should spend more time in getting a more conclusive and cheaper testing infrastructure than to find a cure. Finding a cure for a virus is tough and a cure for a 2% fatal virus cannot be primary focus. Testing and tracing will be an easier bet on our limited resources.

Please don’t let the situation go out of hand. India can not handle a complete lockdown for another 20 days.

We are all different, and we have to co-exist happily.

TO BE HAPPY WE HAVE TO FIRST ACCEPT THAT EACH ONE OF US IS DIFFERENT.

In a national context, this becomes even more important.

Pierre Trudeau, who many consider a Visionary including myself, had said this amazingly frank statement about his Canadian citizens,

“There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.”

Now compare this to the writings of MS Gowalkar whose ideas are being made popular in India every passing day.

He wrote that India’s independence in 1947 didn’t constitute real freedom because the founders accepted ‘the perverted concept of territorial nationalism’, which considers all who lives on India’s territory as equal constituents of the nation. He wrote that territorial nationalism is unnatural, unscientific and lifeless hybrid, as compared to the nationalism that is derived from the national culture - ancient and sublime Hinduism.

The suggestion that only a Hindu can be an authentic Indian is an attack to the very ethos of humanity that lives in India. It ends the possibility of a JUST society as majoritarian emotions will marginalise the minority rights.

To this context, Mr Trudeau says,
“The JUST Society will be the one in which the rights of minorities will be safe from the whims of intolerant majorities”.

On a question from a high school student about what happened to his promises of a "Just Society”, he jokingly said, “The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago”.

Mr Trudeau firmly believed that “The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men. While perhaps more difficult to formulate for groups than for individuals, even the members of majorities — political, religious, linguistic or economic — must know what it is to suffer injustice. My Government is deeply concerned to provide and to ensure increased justice, dignity and recognition to the individual, particularly in an age which is characterized by large governments, industrial automation, social regimentation and old-fashioned laws”.

Mr Trudeau is a nationalist and his love for Canada is well known. But it is based on equality and justice. He brought parliamentary sovereignty to Canada out of UK in 1982. He kept Canada together with his inclusive plural policies when separatism was at its peak.

Even when he had to implement bilingualism (English & French) in Canada he had clarified that

“Bilingualism is NOT an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.”

He once famously said, “There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”.

The reason why I thought of Trudeau today is my increasing doubt that India is moving towards majoritarianism, which Trudeau fought till the end, where Muslims and other minorities are not respected. Constant hate has been fed to the innocent minds, even in the times of a world pandemic; and in the absence of a global perspective, sadly, this hatred seems logical and a birth right of the majority.

The ideas of Gowalkar are stemming root like never before. All the three heads of the the country - The PM, the President and the Vice President have learnt their nationalism from the teachings of Gowalkar and RSS. And Gowalkar believed that democracy is a western concept, alien to Hindu culture.

One learned friend tells me recently that constitution was written by humans only. It can be changed and a Hindu Rashtra can be declared just like a secular state was declared in 1950. This surprised me immensely because India was never so frank and open about wanting to be a Hindu Rashtra.

I agree when Gowalkar says ‘territorial nationalism’ is unnatural. Majoritarianism is indeed instinctive and natural in all animal species. That is the reason we needed a constitution to bring in equality, justice and secularism.

Our founding fathers knew that majoritarianism is a recipe for disaster.

Every small region has a majority of some kind. In Assam, Assamese is a majority. Within Assam, in Silchar, Bengali is a majority. India is a Hindu majority but Kashmir is a Muslim majority. Certain constituencies are Muslim majority. Then there are caste majority regions. Who can stop the fire when the animal instinct becomes an acceptable norm? Fanning majoritarianism is simply calling for anarchy, riots and disintegration of united India.

As Mr Shashi Tharoor puts it, “An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us”.

Trudeau had said, “I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state”.

Like in a marriage to be happy, we say that we have to accept that each one of us is different; we have to say the same for a country to be happy.

Just like territorial nationalism, marriage is also argued by some as ‘unnatural’. But can we even think of killing the institution of marriage? Marriage was the first institution required when humans settled down and stopped being nomads.

TO BE HAPPY WE HAVE TO FIRST ACCEPT THAT EACH ONE OF US IS DIFFERENT.

Fact Check - Did Parliamentary Standing Committee of 2003 supported CAA 2019

What does the Parliamentary Standing Committee really say about giving citizenship to those persecuted in Bangladesh and Pakistan?

BJP has been citing a parliamentary standing committee on Citizenship Amendment Act 2003 to prove that the Congress and the left had concluded that religious minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan should be given citizenship. And religious minority in these countries cannot be Muslim.

I would like to clear this narrative by citing statements directly from the report. 

1. Firstly, this committee although headed by a Congressman Pranab Mukherjee, had members of all parties including the BJP. From Assam, it had the BJP MP, Rajen Gohain. It had the very powerful BJP leader, Pramod Mahajan. So we cannot conclude that the remarks in the report were of Congress and the left. BJP spokespeople like Sambit Patra demeans a parliamentary committee by making it one party voice.
2. Secondly, the very objectives of the report had these two exact statements - 1) making acquisition of Indian citizenship by registration and naturalisation more stringent and 2) preventing illegal migrants from becoming eligible for Indian citizenship. These two points very clearly make the report against giving citizenship frivolously without much thought on rules, processes and overall implementation strategy.
3. The 107th report of course mentions large number of representations from different organisations expressing concerns that people being persecuted in Bangladesh and Pakistan and forced to leave their ancestral homes would now be detected & deported under CAA 2003. It was pleaded by the petitioners for grant of citizenship and other facilities to such migrants by the Government of India. To this concern, the report said this exact statement, “While expressing sympathies for such refugees, Members were of the view that instead of granting citizenship to these refugees, it would be better if this problem was tackled as per the international law and convention”. The report suggested a two pronged strategy which is in no way supports CAA 2019. It wrote exactly this. “Adoption of a two-pronged strategy to deal with the problem was favoured.  On the one hand, Members were for extending all humanitarian assistance to such ‘REFUGEES’ (emphasis added by author) while on the other, they wanted the Government to put pressure through diplomatic channels on the governments of the countries from where these refugees were coming, either as a result of religious persecution or civil commotion, to create conducive atmosphere in their countries for early return of the refugees.  
4. Presently, many BJP members are also citing the commitment made by the national leaders at the time of partition to facilitate the entry of Hindus from Pakistan to India with a view to save them from religious persecution in Pakistan. Even this point was discussed in this parliamentary committee. The report wrote exactly this, “This commitment, they felt depended on circumstances but, was, however, not an unending or open-ended one.  They believed that it would be extremely difficult for India to accommodate such refugees, as its own citizens were feeling the pinch of growing population, poverty and unemployment”.
5. The exact statement that BJP cites is this line, “Citizenship should be granted only to Bangladeshi minority refugees and not to refugees belonging to majority community”. This is quite interesting because this line is from section 3.2 which deals in the major points received via memorandums from various organisations against a press ad asking for representations and memoranda. These are points from other organisations and not of the report!! We must see some of the other points received by the committee: 1) Indian citizenship should be granted to Bangladeshi and Pakistani minority refugees. 2) Refugees, who entered India after 25 March 1971, should be treated as legal migrants. (Author note: This point if agreed would cancel out Assam Accord) 3) Citizenship should not be available to Bangladeshi minorities. 

See the contrasts in the points and it proves the plurality of representations.

So clearly, the Congress and the Left are not saying anything different today. The parliamentary committee is being cited wrongly by the BJP with malafide intentions of distracting the population.

Comments on the speech by Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Assam Assembly on 13th January 2020

হিমন্ত বিশ্ব শৰ্মা ডাঙৰীয়াৰ এই ভাষণভাগ আমি সকলো অসমৰ ৰাইজে শুনিব লাগে৷ যদিওঁ তথ্যবোৰ আগ বঢ়াঁওতে তেওঁৰ হিন্দু ধৰ্মৰ প্ৰতি থকা দুৰ্বলতা আৰু বিজেপিৰ প্ৰতি থকা দ্বায়বদ্ধতাৰ কাৰণে যুক্তিবিহীন হোৱা দেখা গৈছে আৰু শব্দৰ মায়াজাল এখন বৈছে, তথাপিও তথ্য কেইটা আমি সকলোৱে জানিবলগীয়া৷

মোৰ কেইতামান যুক্তি আছে ভাৰত আৰু অসমৰ এজন নাগৰিক হিচাবে, আৰু দেশখনৰ শান্তি আৰু প্ৰগতিৰ প্ৰতি দ্বায়বদ্ধ কাৰণে৷ হিমন্ত ডাঙৰীয়াই বাৰে বাৰে কোৱাৰ দৰে মইও কৈছো যে ভুল হলে শুধৰাই দিয়েযেন৷
এই যুক্তিখিনি লেখাৰ মূল উদ্দেশ্য হৈছে যে আমি সকলোৱে আমাৰ দেশখন, আমাৰ সংবিধানখন ভালকৈ বুজি পাব লাগিব৷ দেশৰ হকে চিন্তা কৰোতে আবেগৰ পৰা অলপ আঁতৰি আহিব আমি পাৰিব লাগিব৷

১) আমাৰ দেশত এজন সাংসদ, চৰকাৰী আমোলা বা সামৰিক বাহিনীৰ বিষয়ায়ে সকলো সময়তে ধৰ্ম নিৰপেক্ষ্য হবই লাগিব৷ সাধাৰণ নাগৰিক এজনৰ বেলেগ মত এটা থাকিব পাৰে৷ এই ভাষণযোগে হিমন্ত ডাঙৰীয়া যে মুছলমান বিৰুধী সেইটো বিধানসভাৰ মজিয়াত জলজল পতপত কে উলাই পৰিছে৷ CAA অনা কাৰণটো যে ধৰ্মীয়, তাক এই ভাষণে ভাল দৰে উপস্থাপন কৰিছে। বিজেপি নেতৃত্বই বাৰে বাৰে কব বিচাৰিছে যে CAA খন secular। সেই ভাষ্যটোক এই ভাষণে উফৰাই দিছে। সেইকাৰণে তেওঁ ভাষণত কোৱাৰ দৰে ৰাজনীতি এৰাই ভাল৷ এই দেশখনৰ আইনে তেওঁক গ্ৰেপটাৰো কৰিব পাৰে এনেকুৱা ধৰ্মভিত্তিত এখন ’যুদ্ধৰ’ ঘোষণা কৰা বাবে৷

২) অসম চুক্তিখন যে হিমন্ত ডাঙৰীয়াই এতিয়াহে ভালকৈ পঢ়িছে, এই কথাষাৰে মোক বহুত দুখ দিছে৷ আৰু বা কিমান জন নেতায়ে হৈতো পঢ়িচোৱা নাই, ভাৱিবলৈয়েই ভয় লাগিছে৷ হয়, সচাঁয়ে অসম চুক্তি ৰুপায়নৰ ক্ষেত্ৰত অসমে বহুতখিনি কৰিবলগীয়া থাকি গ’ল৷ তাৰ কাৰণ আজি বুজিব পাৰিছো৷ প্ৰথম সত্যটো হৈছে অসম চুক্তিৰ দফাখিনি সংসদৰ (parliament) মজিয়াত কেতিয়াও উপস্থাপন কৰা হোৱা নাই আৰু সেইবাবে ১৯৮৫ চনৰ পাছত হোৱা যিকোনো বহিৰাগত বা Foreigner related সংশোধনীবোৰত অসম চুক্তিৰ কথা সামৰি লোৱা হোৱা নাই৷
মোৰ ব্যক্তিগত ধাৰনা যে এই সকলোবোৰ সংশোধনী অসমে অসম চুক্তিৰ দায়ৰাত থাকি অৱলম্বন কৰিব লাগে বা লাগিছিল৷ এই ভাষণত থিকেই কৈছে এক প্ৰকাৰে যে অসম চুক্তিৰ আগতেও উলঙ্ঘন হৈছে কিন্তু সেইবুলিয়েই আকৌ হব দিব লাগে বুলি মই নেভাৱো৷ আগতে কৰা ভুলবোৰ যিহেতো চুক্তিখন পঢ়ি নোছোৱা আৰু অভিজ্ঞতাৰ অভাৱত হল, এইবাৰ যিহেতো পঢ়িচোৱা হ’ল, ভালদৰে আইনৰ অভিজ্ঞ এজনৰ লগত আলোচনা কৰি অসম চুক্তি ৰুপায়নৰ সকলো চেষ্টা কৰাটোৱেই ভাল বুলি মই ভাৱিছো৷

৩) আমাৰ ভাৰতখন ১৯৫০ চনৰ পৰা আৰম্ভ হৈছে৷ ইয়াত কাৰোবাৰ কিবা সংদেহ আছে যদি আঁতৰাই লোৱাই ভাল৷ আমি সংবিধানখনৰ মতে চলো বুলি যদি গৰ্ব কৰো তেনেহলে সত্য এয়াই৷ ২৬/০১/১৯৫০ এই তাৰিখৰ পৰা হে আমি SECULAR, DEMOCRATIC, FEDERAL REPUBLIC হৈছো৷ এই তাৰিখৰ আগতে কোন ৰজাই কেইতা মন্দিৰ ভাঙিছে, কেইটা বনাইছে সেই জ্ঞান আমাৰ আজি তাৰিখত বুৰঞ্জীহে মাথোন৷ আমি ৰাজনিতীৰ দায়ৰাত হিন্দুপ্ৰধান দেশ নহয় বুলি সংবিধান লিখিলোঁ৷
পিছে Aurangzebএ কেইটা মন্দিৰ বনাইছে (হয় বনাইছে),তাৰো হিচাব মই দিব পাৰো৷ এই ভাষণত অনা বুৰঞ্জী কিছো সচাঁ আৰু কিছু মিছা৷ হয়, চুকাফা আক্ৰমণকাৰী আছিল৷ ১২০০ শতিকাৰ পাছতহে আহোমৰ অসম যাত্ৰা৷ আজি তেওঁলোক অসমীয়া৷ হয়টো আহোম অহাৰ আগতেও মুছলমান সকল এই অঞ্চলত আছিল৷ কিন্তু এই তথ্যৰ আজিৰ ভাৰত বা অসমত ৰাজনিতীৰ কাৰণে কোনো ভিত্তি থাকিব নোৱাৰে৷ আমাৰ চৰকাৰৰ চিন্তা, পৰিকল্পনা আৰু পলিচিৰ ক্ষেত্ৰত এই বুৰঞ্জীৰ কোনো কাম নাই৷ হিমন্ত ডাঙৰিয়াই মৰা ৰণহুংকাৰৰ আজিৰ ভাৰতত কোনো দৰকাৰ নাই৷ আমাৰ ৰাইজে বুজক আৰু এনেকুৱা ৰণহুংকাৰৰ সঠিক প্ৰতিউত্তৰ নিৰ্বাচনত দিয়ক৷
আমাক হিন্দু বা মুছলমান ভাল পোৱা আৰু ধৰ্মৰ নামত আবেগিক হৈ যোৱা নেতা নেলাগে, আমাক অসমীয়া নেতা লাগে৷ এজন মাৰোৱাৰী নেতায়ো ভাল অসমীয়া নেতা হ’ব পাৰে৷ তেওঁ অসমৰ অসম চুক্তিৰ বা আন কোনো আন্দোলন কৰি পোৱা চুক্তিৰ হকে সফলতাৰে মাত মাতিব পাৰিব পাৰে৷

৪) অসম চুক্তিৰ বছৰটো ১৯৬৬ নে ১৯৭১ সেই বিষয়টো অনা কাৰণে ভাল হৈছে৷ এই বিষয়ে জানিব কাৰণে আমি চুক্তিখন সকলোৱে পঢ়ি চাব লাগে৷ মোৰ অভিমত হৈছে যে উচ্চতম ন্যায়ালয়ে এন আৰ চি কৰোতে ১৯৭১ চনক ভাৱি লৈছে আৰু অসমৰ সকলোৱে তাৰিখটো মানি লোৱা দেখা গৈছে৷ সেইকাৰণে আমি আকৌ এই তাৰিখটো বিধান সভাৰ মজিয়াত আনি চুক্তিখন যে আগতেও উলঙ্ঘা হৈছে সেইটো স্থাপন কৰা কোনো ইতিবাচক চিন্তা হব নোৱাৰে৷
এইটো সচাঁ যে সময় প্ৰগতিশীল হব লাগে আৰু সময়ে অসম চুক্তিখনো প্ৰগতিশীল কৰি লৈ যাব লাগে৷ সংশোধন হোৱা মানেই violation বা উলঙ্ঘা নুবুজায়৷ ভাষণটোত ধৰি ৰখা উলঙ্ঘনবোৰ violation বুলি কোৱাটো সঠিক বুলি মই নেভাৱো, কাৰণ আমাৰ চুক্তিখন সংসদত উপস্থাপনেই হোৱা নাই৷ যদিও বহু দেৰিয়েই হৈছে, তথাপিও আমি বিধান সভাত এই বিষয়ে আলোচনা কৰিব লাগে৷ যিহেতো ৰাইজ চুক্তিখন লৈ আবেগিক, অসমৰ ৰাজ্য চৰকাৰে জ্ঞানীলোকৰ সহায় লৈ অসম চুক্তিৰ constitutionality বিচাৰি উলিয়াব লাগিব আৰু ভৱিষ্যতে কি কৰা উচিত, তাৰ সিদ্ধান্ত লোৱাটো অতি দৰকাৰ হৈ পৰিছে বুলি মই ভাৱো। অসম চুক্তিত থকা অমিমাংখিত বিষয়বোৰ অসমৰ ৰাইজে মিমাংখা কৰিবলৈ সুবিধা কৰি দিয়াটোয়েই উচিত কথা হব বুলি ভাৱো। কেন্দ্ৰীয় নীতিবোৰে অসম চুক্তিখন চেদেলি-ফেদেলি কৰা বুলি ৰাইজে বুজ ললে কথা বিষম হোৱাৰ সম্ভাৱনা নথকা নহয়।

৫) হিমন্ত ডাঙৰীয়াই ৰিফিউজী আৰু নাগৰিকতাৰ মাজৰ প্ৰাথক্য নজনাটো অতি দুখৰ কথা। ভাৰতৰ Refugee policy নেথাকিলেও শব্দটোৰ অৰ্থজনাত অসুবিধা হব নেলাগিছিল। এই শব্দটোৰ অৰ্থ নজনা দেখাই তেওঁ ডাঙৰ কথা এটা উপস্থাপন কৰিব বিচাৰিছে। কংগ্ৰেছ চৰকাৰ আৰু তৰুণ গগৈ ডাঙৰীয়াক তেওঁ নিজৰ লগত সামৰি লব বিচাৰিছে। পিছে এই যুক্তিয়ে গোটেই ভাষণটোক শেষ কৰি দিছে।
আজিৰ চলি থকা আন্দোলনখন নাগৰিকতাৰ প্ৰশ্নক লৈ হৈছে। তাক সাম কতাবলৈ দিয়া ভাষণভাগে refugee শব্দটোৰ অৰ্থ আন্দোলন কৰা সকলে বুজি নেপাই বুলি ভৱাটো ভাল হোৱা নাই বুলি মই ভাৱো।