“We have never come across a blast of this magnitude”, says Dipen Rajkonwar, general secretary of Assam Association.
The community held a condolence meeting after blasts rocked Assam. Bratatee Barman reports
As the 18 serial bomb blasts ripped through Assam on October 30, the Assamese people based in Bombay dialed up numbers of relatives, friends and acquaintances in their home state to be assured of their safety.
“We have never come across a blast of this magnitude”, says Dipen Rajkonwar, general secretary of Assam Association. A condolence meeting was organised in a scurried hurry in the evening of blasts.
Despite it being a working day, 300 people gathered to support the cause of peace at the Assam Bhavan in New Bombay. To see the TV footage of dead bodies strewn around on the roads of Guwahati is heart renting, says one of the organisers of the meeting Bina Saikia, president of Shrimayee an Assames Women’s Organisation in Bombay. Rs20000 was collected on the spot to send it to the families of the deceased.
‘We condemn the violence and wish for a peaceful existence in Assam’, says Debashish Sharma, the resident commissioner of Assam Bhavan in New Bombay. A sense of helplessness in a situation they have no control over, the Assamese community in Bombay wish that the terrorists will not target the innocent people.
“It is infuriating to witness the growing power of the militant outfits in Assam. The activities of ULFA are turning into acts of urban terrorism”, says Sharma. To the Assamese students the spurt of violence is heart breaking says Apeksha Bhattacharji, an Assamese student of second year bachelor mass media at Jai Hind College.
For Tashmiyah Farhat, a first year MBS student at IES College of Management and Research, who left Assam as a teenager to come to study in Bombay, the communal shade to the terrorism in Assam is heart breaking. Things have drastically changed in Assam, it is very difficult to accept the changes that are getting increasingly fierce says Tashmiyah.
For many the failure is due to lack of good enough effort of the Assam government. “The state failed to curb the violent outbursts in Assam despite hints given by the intelligence agency says Padmashree Jahnu Baruah, a national award winning film maker. “Credible investigation into the bomb blasts is lacking” adds Baruah.
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