Saturday, December 27, 2008

Where is The Solution?

Its been almost 10 months since Prime Minister visited Arunachal Pradesh . On his visit he promised many development packages for the state. The most important amongst it was the Rs. 55,00 crores 1,840-km trans-Arunachal Pradesh highway that will stretch from Tawang to Mahadevpur. Once this highway will be built it will be a big respite and a boom for the people of the state. Till now the movement of citizens from one part of the state to another part depends on the moods of Assam. I would say if moods because you never know when there will be bandh in Assam. It like that Assam is always under mood swings.
Another important decision for the development of the state was to put the the state in the rail map.

But can Arunachal Pradesh be really a peaceful and achieve what it want to in terms of education, infrastructure, health care, etc without including the Chakmas and Hajongs. That is a big questions? Can a state take stride towards development leaving a section of its citizen behind ? I don't think so.

The state government should accept the Chakmas and Hajongs as its citizen. Their problem is more of a political problem. The leaders in the state lacks visions to solve the problem . There is no leader to take bold steps leaving behind the communal feeling and taking into consideration the reality.

The Chakma- Hajong problem must be solve as soon as possible before it is too late and get complicated. All the concern parties should be taken into consideration.

In 2007, when Chief minister Khandu Dorjee came to power he constituted a high- power committee headed by Assembly Speaker Setong Sena and MLAs from Chakma inhabitant areas. It was welcome by both the AAPSU (All Arunachal Pradesh Student Union), the major party spearheading the anti-Chakma agitation, and CCRCAP(Committee for Citizenship Rights of the Chakmas and Hajongs of Arunachal Pradesh ). The AAPSU welcome the decision thinking that at last the politicians woke up to their call to drive the Chakmas out of the state while the CCRCAP welcome thinking otherwise. The CCRCAP thought that finally the politicians will take the call to solve the problem. Now both the parties are unsatisfied since the committee didn't took any decision till date. If the committee can not reach a decision even after one and half year then what is the point of forming a committee ? It shows the lack of apathy of the state politicos.
Again during the prime minister's visit to the state in February 2008, the Chief Minister requested the PM to form a high- power committee to solve the problem. What happen to the previous high power committee that was constituted in June 2007?
When will the state politicians and the AAPSU will wake up and try to solve the problem once and for all for the betterment of Arunachal Pradesh.