Pradeep Dutt Roy
Founding President Aksa
Lawyer Guwahati High Court
The Central Government has constituted an 11-member High Power Committee headed by Judge Biplab Sharma to implement clause 6 of the Assam Accord. That committee has submitted a report to the Assam government. Which the Assam government has sent to the central government. The people of India still do not know what was said in that report. But how did AASU present this report to the public. No such bill has been tabled in Parliament yet. The bill was not discussed in the assembly. Neither the central nor the state government has taken any decision in this regard yet. How did AASU bring this report before the public? I think this act of AASU is not only unconstitutional, it is against the law and immoral. I do not believe that Article 7 of the Assam Agreement states that 80 per cent of jobs will be reserved for Assamese and that no one can buy land and houses in Assam except Assamese. Because one thing is that this 11 member committee but not the Supreme Authority. Unless the central government and the state government accept it, it is unreasonable for AASU to say such things. In fact, AASU wants to create a division between Assamese and Bengalis, Hindus and Muslims. The political party that AASU is going to form is trying to create a sentiment of Assamese extremist nationalism to take advantage of the upcoming 2021 elections. Bengalis in Assam are 30 percent. I think if there is to be reservation for jobs then Bengalis have to be given 30 percent jobs. That is a fair claim. Assam is a multilingual state. Assam is not only Assamese. The elders have ruled here for 500 years, there is Ahom, there is Missing, there is Dimasa, there is Manipuri, there is Nepali. It is an unethical demand for Assamese people to get 60 percent jobs out of this population. This claim cannot be accepted under any circumstances. And AASU is politicizing it and trying to poison the weather in Assam. However, the Assam government has already arranged 80 per cent jobs for Assamese. No matter what the Chief Minister or the Health Minister says, no decision has been taken yet. But look at the government in Assam where there have been jobs in various departments recently but a Bengali has not got a job. The Assam government is depriving the Bengalis not only of deprivation but of the whole matter. There is no trace of the way development is taking place in the Brahmaputra valley in the Barak valley. The central government has given the green signal for naming the language martyr station here but the state government has blocked it. We do not know for what purpose. So even though the Assam government does not want to talk about this 11-member committee, there is various evidence that they are ultimately depriving and discriminating against Barak. Guwahati Medical College Dibrugarh Medical College has the same facilities but Silchar Medical College Hospital does not. The government is unable to provide a cardiologist and a neurologist in this 50-year-old Silchar Medical College. This is extremely unfortunate. Silchar Medical College Hospital does not have any special infrastructure. Assam’s health minister is coming to Silchar tomorrow. I had a question for him as to what happened to what you said would be the construction of a 1,000-bed Covid Care Center and a 300-bed Covid Hospital.
