Someone wrote on NE journo forum, “what the hell” in reaction to tomorrow’s Axom Bandh. Shyamanta Kashyap, President of Assam Welfare Society, has called for the Bandh. Whose footsteps is the 19-year-old Kashyap following? No prizes for guessing his daddy’s name. Yeah! The son of former CM of Axom, Mr. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. The man who entered almost all levels of crime as a CM. From being accused as philanderer to Tea controversy and many more. In my knowledge, even as a school going child, I remember the State saw worst days in his tenures as the CM of Axom.
The fuss that he created during the Assam Movement was for power, with little or no public interest involved, he made fool of the entire community. Apparently, Mahanta’s followers even spat on a famous academician’s face for advocating English language and showing reasons on why we still needed English as the medium of instruction in government schools. Did we know his son, Shyamanta Kashyap, who’d called for the Bandh tomorrow went to
Surprisingly, 7th April is the Foundation Day of ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam). I felt terrible when a few people, (called themselves as citizens of an elite society) are trying to defend tomorrow’s bandh as a bandh called by the ULFA. This is not in defense of ULFA. This is in defense of Jr. Mahanta infant. It's in his gene; like father, like son… he is bringing back the "bandh culture".
But also like Abraham Lincoln said: You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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