00:00If I don't say it, then he will eat me. If I don't kill him, then he will kill me.
00:30He will take one community, put a label on them and sell the label calling it governance.
00:36He's on record saying he wants people to trouble Mia Muslims to drive them back.
00:43Then Gandhi, he invokes Mahatma Gandhi to justify non-cooperation.
00:47Basically telling people, do not give shelter, do not associate, make life so uncomfortable that people have to leave.
00:53Gandhi did not march for this, sir. How can Gandhi's name be used for something as brazen as this?
00:57Meanwhile, policy has become theatre. Eviction drives get framed as encroachment removal and reports keep noting the controversy over minorities being targeted.
01:06It's the same old trick. Call it administration, but let it land like punishment.
01:11And when eviction drives spark clashes and death, it's still sold like a victory lap.
01:17Then there's the beef crackdown energy.
01:18In Assam, the government will not serve in any restaurant or hotel.
01:25Rates, detentions, enforcement drives under the cattle law.
01:28SOP talk, near religious sites, because it's not development until it's a police matter, right?
01:33Assam, like all states of India, deserves a Chief Minister who wins votes with a plan, but with a target.
01:38But if you still need Mia to feel powerful, congratulations.
01:43You've built a politics so empty, it needs a villain just to stand upright.
01:47Now, let's pause here.
01:49Assam does have a real historical problem.
01:51Indigenous communities have lived with decades of demographic anxiety.
01:55Borders that are porous, resources that are finite, and identity shaped by migration, partition, 1971,
02:01and a long, unresolved promise that the Assamese language, land, and political voice would be protected.
02:07But those fears are not imaginatory.
02:09They deserve policy.
02:10They deserve law.
02:11They deserve seriousness.
02:12What they do not deserve is to be repackaged as a daily communal spectacle.
02:17Is that too much to ask?
02:18Or am I just another left liberal critical of everything DJP?
02:21I look forward to hearing your views in the comments.
02:23I'm Manisha Vikari.
02:25First things fast.
02:31No.
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