But is there any sense in such fear of being deprived of their right in their own state due to inflow of outsiders? Do we have our own identity as such? Can we explain exactly what we mean by the word identity?

In reality, such fear has no meaning. It is simply the creation of a group of selfish individuals who want to get something for them by intelligently misleading the common people. Such people have all along been trying to inject a sense of fear-psychosis in the minds of the common people, particularly among the young generation. Our young people are now growing up with such endless sense of fear and as such this kind of meaningless fear has gradually been making them hate outsiders. Such hatred towards the outsiders is the root cause of the mounting social tension, which often leads to group clashes, violence and bloodshed.

In these days of fast changing human civilization, no society can afford to thrive only on its identity. Identity of any society can never be a static proposition; rather it is a dynamic phenomenon. Our identity goes on changing with time and since there is future, we cannot stick to our present or past. Our identity is our own making and as such we can change it if we feel like doing so. There is no question of preserving our identity; with the gradual growth of the society, the identity will also grow. Identity is not for preserving like antique, it id for making the society grow faster.

Many societies in the world today have made tremendous development without bothering about their own identities. The society, which seems to be more concerned about preserving its own identity often forgets to preserve the more important things like social and moral values. While trying to preserve its identity, such society does forget about being honest, sincere, hard working and magnanimous. Today, in our societies corruption has become rampant, people are becoming more selfish, self-centered and power hungry, there has been frightening erosion of moral values. Instead of trying to preserve and protect our own identities, we could have engaged ourselves in upholding our moral values by trying to be honest, sincere and persons of integrity.

Any society which lives in constant fear of losing its identity due to inflow of outsiders is not at all fit to exists, because it will be responsible for producing generations of cowards who will not have the courage to face struggle, competition and hard time in their lives. A generation of people with the fear-psychosis is good for nothing except indulging in cowardly acts of attacking innocents usually coming from outside in their own localities.

During the seventies, the AASU and the AAGSP leaders misled the people of Assam by projecting the false fear of being swamped by Bangladeshis. The same group of leaders became rulers at Dispur for ten years; but they could not even find even a few thousands of such illegal foreigners in Assam. AASU is again trying to whip up the same old issue in order to derive political benefit out of it. During the last elections in the state, AASU tried to meddle in politics but failed to make any impact. Any spineless society, which does not have the courage and determination to grow with its own strength, cannot achieve progress only by trying to preserve and protect its own identity. A conscious, determined and morally high society is destined to achieve its desired development even if it does not care to preserve its identity. The identity of a society is known for its all-round progress, both material and moral.

In the name of preserving identities, societies in northeast seem to have been criminally engaged in destroying what we had as our old values of morality, hard work and mutual trust among the people belonging to different ethnic identities. We are gradually becoming more selfish and fragmented in our efforts to save our so-called identities. Such identity-consciousness has already made our Assamese youths aversed to hard work and lured to get-rich-quick through extorted money. They do not go for all India competitive jobs; they do not go out of their state in search of better career opportunities. A section of them want to remain in Assam by trying to exhibit themselves as social reformers or revolutionaries but looking for chance to get selfish design fulfilled. A similar situation is being created in Meghalaya where a section of the tribal youths have been trying to imitate their counterparts in Assam. In future, majority youths of the entire northeast will perhaps try to imitate the Assam youths who had already pushed the state to perennial disturbances resulting in stagnation in the process of economic development