[Reader-list] Manmohan singh and elections.?

[anupam chakravartty]

by the way I want Rajen to answer.. HOW MANY TIMES HAS HE BEEN TO ASSAM?

On 4/13/09, anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com> wrote:
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> dear rakesh,
>
> frankly, i dont give a damn. since, there have been so much talk about
> calling a spade, a spade. I just did that. it is from my presence in the
> field (meaning the exact location) that i speak what i speak. it is only
> when you sit in cushy room full of books stinking knowledge and all such
> things, you would care about who is to be accused or who is to be spared. it
> is called arm chair intellectualism in a common man's parlance. all i can
> say is that Congress over the past five years in assam has brought much good
> to its people than what it did previously. it was a realisation and it is
> communally a very conducive atmosphere for religions to grow and flourish.
> so please leave the north east. these concerns are fake. no one gives two
> hoots to what a bangladeshi immigrant goes through while crossing the
> borders in boat full of pineaaples bribing the BSF and BDR officials. how
> several people take advantage of his situation. my experience, again is from
> the field not from some book.
>
> thank you. i wish to speak no more on this.
> anupam
>
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>  On 4/13/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dear Anupam  ji
>>
>> Accusing an administration for its' alleged mishandling of the blasts (or
>> even carrying out themselves) can't tantamount to openly supporting one's
>> own party workers to indulge in mayhem and violence. It is certainly
>> possible that Advani may have known that after his speech violence would
>> take place. It is also possible that he may have asked for it privately, and
>> then the plot may have been put in practice.
>>
>> However, since there is no proof for either of this, it certainly can't be
>> said legally that Advani exhorted his workers to indulge in violence, unless
>> there is any of his statement in public which means so, or there is any of
>> his actions in private (caught by someone and made public), which resulted
>> in the violence you are talking about.
>>
>> I certainly don't have any great regard for Mr. Advani (except that he did
>> highlight appeasement, but its meaning as he points out is very wrong). But
>> to accuse him like this is stretching the story too far.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rakesh
>>
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