No holds barred approach against the authority
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: August 05 2011 -

Economic Blockade imposed by the Sadar Hills Districthood Demand Committee on August 3 2011 :: Pix - K. Bipin Sharma

The Sadar Hills District Demand Committee (SHDDC) has revealed its true nature during the ongoing stir to make Sadar Hills a full fledged revenue district. It has decided to go for a no holds barred approach against the authority, and also against innocent people and their valuable property who have no idea of why they are mad against the authority.

If the bigwigs of SHDDC were only brethren who could discuss their origins of how they have been co-inhabiting with the rest of the indigenous people, a good and working understanding could easily have been reached at.

If one is really conscious of historical facts there are so many contenders to the ownership of Sadar Hills. If however we are to begin our discussion on the understanding that the end begets the truth, then one has to face the fait accompli of the SHDDC.

In which case we have to make a preliminary survey of the psycho-political mind set of those who have been hell bent on demanding the Sadar Hills be converted into a district.

Let us face the facts. Most people who are demanding Sadar Hills to be raised to the level of a district are not even aware why the area is called 'Sadar'.

Let them know it for the first time in their lives, 'Sadar' is the acronym used by the British to describe 'Selected Area Development & Administrative Region' (SADAR), the acronym does not point to any historical or proprietal link up with those who are demanding a district status for it.

The area was a huge swamp infested by mosquitoes and very prone to malaria. In their unquenchable thirst for lebensraum the Kukis and Nepalese saw it as their own little paradises.

How will the original indigenous people feel about the callosity with which ownership to the land is being conducted, only those with better historical knowledge can comprehend.

There are many factors which could elucidate the tenous relationship between the land and its ownership claimants in the Sadar Hills.

As expected in such circumstances the broughaha far exceeds the legitimate rights. To open and close this line of reasoning the demand for district status for Sadar Hills began in 1972.

Why could not these people have demanded it earlier ? The simple answer is most of them had not arrived as yet, and they were still asking for directions leading to Manipur.

Having said all this, is the demand for district status for Sadar Hills tenable ? Yes it is.

And why so, to please land grabbers and to satisfy the Nepalese, whose country alongside with Bangladesh are the biggest exporters of poverty in South Asia ?

No. We should agree to the SHDDC demand based on administrative requirement and the need to address to the socio-political rifts, artificially created, but are non the less real.

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
– The Buddha