Instead of fully implementing the Agreements arrived at between the late Governor of Assam and the Naga National Council, and inspite of the fact that the honourable Prime Minister gave a written assurance for full implementation of the Agreement, a representative from Assam to the Constituent Assembly of India seems to have an idea that even local autonomy is too great for the Tribals of Assam and he further particularised the Nagas by pointing out that Dimapur area should not be within Naga Hills. The representative for Assam has indirectly given the idea that the present Government of Assam is thinking of an ‘Assamistan’, that is what the Nagas have understood from the talks in the Constituent Assembly of India. The nagas have understood that the intention of the Government of Assam is not going to be a Government of the people of Assam but of ‘An Assamese Govern-ment’ – a Government for the Assamese speaking people only. The fear expressed by them that the local autonomous units would become ‘Tribalistan’ and ‘Communistan’ is but a reflection of their own intention and attitude. They have exhibited their true colours when their attitude towards the tribals was betrayed in placing them side by side with ‘Communistan’. They have made themselves very small in the Assembly and they will come back to Assam in bad humour, they will imagine that they are the lions of Assam and try to roar like lions and try to make up the loss they have made in the Constituent Assembly by exacting dog-like devotion for the tribals of Assam.
