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If the Barak Valley seems to be forming a disconnect with the Brahmaputra Valley, blame must go to politicians — both at Dispur and New Delhi — for having done practically nothing to abridge the gap, both psychological and developmental. The two regions are part of the same State and, therefore, need a similar redressal of their grievances. However, when it comes to the Barak Valley, there is an overwhelming sense of discrimination and alienation. Leaders from Dispur hardly make it a point to visit the area and make the people there feel that they too are cherished the same way as people in the much privileged Brahmaputra Valley are. Nor do leaders from New Delhi, during their trips to the State, give any indication that the Barak Valley too should resound with notes of development — as much as the Brahmaputra valley would, in their Asom development roadmap. In other words, there seems to be an element of deliberate indifference when it comes to responding to the aspirations of the Barak Valley populace.
Have you been to Silchar by road? You should. The national highway leading to Silchar, after crossing Mehgalaya, looks like a road left for an unwanted people to suffer and endure too, and yet be happy about what Dispur will promise time and again. The road — mind you, a national highway — has long cried for repair and renovation, but why should Dispur be moved when it has chosen to remain blissfully deaf? Thus widens further the gap between the two valleys, within the same State, within the same people.
The question is: Have we not learnt anything from our recent history of division of people and geography due to the Big Brother attitude of the dominant community? If not, is it not time then that we learnt that lesson and lived democratically in the truest sense of the term? source: sentinel assam 06.09.08
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If the Barak Valley seems to be forming a disconnect with the Brahmaputra Valley, blame must go to politicians — both at Dispur and New Delhi — for having done practically nothing to abridge the gap, both psychological and developmental. The two regions are part of the same State and, therefore, need a similar redressal of their grievances. However, when it comes to the Barak Valley, there is an overwhelming sense of discrimination and alienation. Leaders from Dispur hardly make it a point to visit the area and make the people there feel that they too are cherished the same way as people in the much privileged Brahmaputra Valley are. Nor do leaders from New Delhi, during their trips to the State, give any indication that the Barak Valley too should resound with notes of development — as much as the Brahmaputra valley would, in their Asom development roadmap. In other words, there seems to be an element of deliberate indifference when it comes to responding to the aspirations of the Barak Valley populace.
Have you been to Silchar by road? You should. The national highway leading to Silchar, after crossing Mehgalaya, looks like a road left for an unwanted people to suffer and endure too, and yet be happy about what Dispur will promise time and again. The road — mind you, a national highway — has long cried for repair and renovation, but why should Dispur be moved when it has chosen to remain blissfully deaf? Thus widens further the gap between the two valleys, within the same State, within the same people.
The question is: Have we not learnt anything from our recent history of division of people and geography due to the Big Brother attitude of the dominant community? If not, is it not time then that we learnt that lesson and lived democratically in the truest sense of the term? source: sentinel assam 06.09.08
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