Telangana to open Pandora’s Box in State.... GUWAHATI, July 30 – Creation of separate state of Telangana will open a Pandora’s Box in Assam as different ethnic groups have threatened to intensify movement for creation of separate states immediately after creation of Telangana. Meanwhile, the security agencies are also apprehensive that the overall law-and-order situation might be affected because of the movements for separate states by different organizations. The All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) has threatened to launch a “vigorous mass movement” for creation of a separate State of Bodoland, while the All Koch Rajbongshi Students’ Union has also demanded creation of separate state of Kamatapur. The Executive council of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) has also adopted a resolution to demand for creation of a separate state. The Deputy Chief of the BTC, Khampa Borgoyari told The Assam Tribune that when the accord for creation of the BTC under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India was signed, the Government of India had asserted that there was no policy for creation of new states. “But now the Government is going to create a new state of Telangana and there is no reason why the Bodo people should be deprived,” he added. He said that the Government should have a uniform policy all over the country regarding creation of new states. A delegation of the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), which is ruling the BTC, has left for New Delhi today to meet the Prime Minister , Union Home Minister and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to put pressure for creation of a separate state of Bodoland in the line of creation of Telangana. The team is headed by BTC Chief Hagrama Mahilary. The BPF is also planning to state a demonstration in New Delhi during the ensuring Monsoon session of the Parliament. The president of the All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU), Promode Boro sounded a note of warning saying that the Central Government would be solely responsible if the entire North East region is cut off because of the movement for creation of separate state of Bodoland. “We did not call for any bandh in the last 12 years but we will now be forced to launch a mass movement because of the discriminatory attitude of the Government of India,” he said. Boro said that after creation of Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand, the Government of India had declared that no new state would be created. But without even forming a state reorganization commission , the Government is planning to create Telangana by discriminating the others. “We are citizens of India and the Government must protect our constitutional and political rights,” he asserted. The All Koch Rajbongshi Students’ Union president Biswajit Roy said that the UPA government at the Centre is adopting a discriminatory attitude only for political gains of the ruling party. He said that they welcomed the process to create Telangana but at the same time, “we are opposed to discriminatory attitude by the Government.” Roy asserted that the Government must create a separate state of Kamatapur comprising 15 districts of Assam and six of West Bengal in the lines of Telangana. He pointed out that the Centre adopted a totally discriminatory attitude by starting the process of creating Telangana even without forming a state reorganization commission.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:22:38 +0000
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