Flood rages, Civil society, Pol. parties and Pressure groups sleep

Assam is in the middle of a very major flood but the civil society, party cadres of major political parties like BJP, Congress and AGP and pressures like AASU, KMSS or AJYCP are in sleep.

If you open any media, print, TVor Web you see the devastation of Assam from upper to lower Assam but walk onthe streets of any towns of Assam, there is complete indifference of ordinarypeople as if the flood does not exist.

This year's flood looks like abig one and complete picture of destruction is yet to emerge but somehow thecivil society and the huge cadre base of the BJP, which boast 33 lakh membershipsin the state, is completely oblivious of the flood.

Even the AASU, AJYCP, KMSS andnot to mention about various civil society groups are completely shying away fromany responsibilities generally seen in other parts of the country, especiallyduring the natural calamities like these.

In fact, during the Kerala Flood, civil society members and other organization, political and non-political, have jumped by the side of the administration to help the marooned people and also tried to organise food and clothing to meet the crisis.

But in Assam, the general narrative remains the government bashing and criticizing the centre for not declaring Assam Flood as a national problem.