The riots actually started on 21 July following the lynching of four Bodo tribals by a mob belonging to the Muslims after snatching them from the custody of the Assam Police on 20 July If indeed the riots have started following the killing of four Bodo youths, could the Bodos be accused of engineering a mass exodus? Although Mr Anjan Pandit, Officer-in-Charge of the Kokrajhar Police Station and his police patrol party were witnesses to the lynching of the four Bodo youths after being snatched away from their custody on 20 July , no one has been arrested so far.
The rising communal tension and the role of infighting within the ruling Congress to start the riots cannot be discounted. For the period , the decadal growth rate of population in Kokrajhar district increased to In almost every district, it is the same story — trouble starts with the AASU declaring a boycott and extremist offshoots of the agitation implementing it with violence.
Roads were blocked, bridges blown up and phone lines cut. Isolated police officers, short of vehicles and unable to communicate, found themselves unable to contain largescale violence. What system, exactly, was working well? Disciplinary action, if it was taken at all, was largely restricted to mid- or lower-level officials.
When elections were declared, many were reluctant to turn up for poll duty. Indeed, it was in Goalpara that members of the Assam Police Battalion shot two sentries guarding a polling station on February A crossfire had then ensued between the battalion and the CRPF, killing personnel on both sides. The incident had played a large part in undermining law and order. Who is to bear responsibility for sending out disaffected, ill-equipped men to deal with raging mobs, for pressing forward with elections even though there were large-scale strikes among government employees?
The Tewary report gives a clean chit to the state administration, even defending its decision to hold elections at that volatile moment. It also makes scant mention of the Centre, which was largely absent. Yet in the years that followed, first information reports were filed for the Nellie massacre, resulting in just chargesheets and no prosecution — the state administration had not thought it necessary to press for justice.
And then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was later asked why she had not responded promptly to the Nellie massacre. Share your perspective on this article with a post on ScrollStack, and send it to your followers.
Contribute Now. Commissions of enquiry In the aftermath of the violence, the state government took the tried and tested route. Who are the key players who represent Bengali speaking Muslims and Bodos in the conflict zone? He runs a multi-billion perfume business stretching from India to the Gulf and Europe. He represents Dhubri in the Lok Sabha. Assam has 14 LS seats. The other Muslim MP belongs to Congress. Ajmal recently came under fire after he called for the the disbandment of the BTC in the wake of riots.
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