ASSAM

ASSAM The LOC Snowball Hiren Gohain While the charge of Indian exploitation of Assam can be sustained without much difficulty, such exploitation would be impossible without true-blue Assamese leaders co-operating heartily in return for a share of the loot. Their share has come in the form of central grants under different schemes and projects. In fact, 'scheme' has meant 'scam' in Assam for several decades. An old and long-drawn-out such scandal known here as the LOC scam, has now returned to haunt the chief minister and his men.