Slowly the disturbing visuals of the violence and arson in Delhi are emerging. It leads to a question, is there at all any law and order maintenance machinery in Delhi. Delhi government escapes, stating that the police are not under their control, while the Union government puts the blame on the local government for inciting the mobs.
Anurag Thakur, Kapil Mishra of the BJP brought disgrace to their party, BJP, by their conflagratory speeches, as did a few others in the opposition. There are others from the minorities, who never stop bragging about India coming under their control if they are united together. The Congress party lost no time in supporting the protests and meeting the President to voice their disapproval of Modi’s Government. The line dividing issues and the country was dumped to convert the nation’s capital into a warzone.
The preparations to hijack the peaceful protests and to turn the heat on Modi’s government was meticulously planned and coincided with the visit of the US President. Incidentally, the US President has also invited the wrath of the Islamic fundamentalists who find the POTUS a stubborn wall in their plan to Islamize the world. Their aversion to PM Modi is also well-known.
Notwithstanding whatever is said, the police grossly failed to act in time to prevent the sad deaths, which is unpardonable in any civilized society. I read with horror an attempt at a repeat of Arab-spring kind of protest, capitalizing on the disapproval of CAA or NRC. The Shaheen Bagh protesters may have had the best of intentions while sitting on a roadblock, but they yielded to the infiltration of hardcore criminals who soon took over.
The saddest part at present is the absence of national opposition prevailing upon the government. Congress is in deeper sickness than ever, its uncharismatic interim president Sonia Gandhi showing no hurry or intent to call organizational polls. If she is waiting for a hibernated Rahul to return and take the reins of the Congress party, it will cease to exist or will split and merge with any and every party in the country.
Amid the protests, forty-two people have died, many with gunshots, a few stabbed and a few lynched. Many are still missing, which might push the number of causalities higher. The protesters perhaps expected a strong police retaliation and with opinionated media crying hoarse over the persecution of minorities in India.
There will be repeats of the attempts, to divide, to provoke and to foment trouble and put our government on the mat. Such situations benefit a few neighbouring countries, a few Western Nations, a few religious zealots. The success or failure of their actions though are entirely in our hands, we the people of India.
The post does not in any way, absolve the government’s liability and responsibility in ensuring peace, safeguarding the lives and the properties of its citizens.
Jai Hind!
Sampath Kumar
Intrépide Voix
In pic: the AAP councillor and the face of the riots, who’s absconding, facing murder charges!
