The ends do not and can never justify the means. But something he said did strike an emotive chord in my heart. My fellow citizens, we in Assam have also struck rock bottom. Our economy is in ruins, thanks to the bloated political and bureaucratic executives who do not generate any goods and services for the wealth they take away from us. There is no governance to speak of.
Nothing is done in a government office without the benefit of a bribe.
In a silent rage, the citizens have struck back at their rulers - in the only manner left to them. If things go on in this way, the people will surely express their anger yet once again. But the problems besetting Assam will remain, for a change of the political executive is no guarantee that our fortunes will change for the better. The weakness of our political executive has never been more obvious. The bureaucracy has proliferated beyond all good sense and reason.