Raj Thackeray is freed again.
Lucky chap! Holding the whole state of Maharashtra to ransom, particularly the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai. Beating up and in the process, murdering one or two unemployed youth who came all the way from Bihar and U.P. to appear for a Railway Recruitment Board test in the city. I was shocked to see a horrible picture of one MNS activist mercilessly thundering blows on a hapless youth from Bihar in Navi Mumbai who came to appear for the RRB test. What for? The only reason being the “sole-heirs” of Maharashtra, the Marathis are being deprived of their rights by ‘aliens’ from the North Indian States. Yeah, ‘The sons of the soil principle’.
The legal process followed. Warrants issued to nab the master villain of the whole unfortunate happenings- Raj Thackeray, the megalomaniac. He was duly arrested from Ratnagiri of Maharashtra in the thick of night and put in prison for one night. The media wrote editorials demanding his long-term incarceration for holding the entire State to ransom and pleaded with the government and the law and order machinery not to allow the fellow and his group to disturb peace in the State particularly Mumbai. The news of his arrest spread like wild fire and all the hell broke loose. The leader’s followers ran like blood hounds carrying lethal weapons and went on the rampage. Train services held up, buses and shops torched, brutally assaulted the North Indian taxi drivers and street vendors to their heart’s content. The ever vibrant city of Mumbai came to stand-still and all the law-abiding citizens went indoors and locked themselves in their residences even then fearing the worst.
After one day of incarceration, the leader again let off the hook. Lucky chap! Celebrations were in the air, bursting of fire crackers followed, the city once again limped back to normality. Pathetic! A few lumpen elements could make the city life go haywire.
The man will be back to his business again. The one, who audaciously ignores the diktats of the Judiciary and State law and order machinery. Such is the plight of Mumbai and Mumbayites for the last two decades and more.
Parochialism, Terrorism and Communalism- the bane of a city and the bane of a nation. The tentacles of the monstrous hydra have spread even to remotest corners of the country. The whole nation is infact in the grip of a fear-psychosis.
Orissa is still in ferment. Innumerable cases of looting, arson and murders were reported from the Kandhamal and its adjoining areas. Even after repeated advisories of the Centre to the Orissa government to reign in the communal elements, bloody riots have not yet subsided. Minority Christians are brutally attacked, murdered and raped under the pretext of proselytisation. In Orissa it is a worst case of communalism.
Over to Assam. There, the Bodoland activists are up against the so-called illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. At a time when ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam) is keeping a slow profile, another area under another group is seething with simmering discontent leading to mayhem and all such cold-blooded inhuman activities.
Now over to another group from West Bengal. There also it is a case of parochialism and secessionism. The Gorkha land enthusiasts have taken up cudgels against the LDF ruled West Bengal government demanding a separate State of Gorkhaland consisting of Darjeeling Hills and contiguous areas. GJM (Gorkha Janamukti Morcha) have given a call to the people to clad in their customary ethnic dresses for one month and also remove the WB signs on the number plates of vehicle and affix the GL sign instead. Bimal Gurung and Roshan Giri, the prominent advocates of Gorkhaland are bent upon creating a separate State of Gorkhas by fighting it out with West Bengal government.
The case of Jammu and Kashmir is as usual. Simmering discontent is prevailing in the State from ‘time immemorial’, some champion the cause of Independent Jammu and Kashmir, some for autonomy while remaining a part of India, some other for total secession from India and also be a part of Pakistan and some others declaring Jammu and Kashmir, an integral part of India. Terrorists, owing allegiance to Pakistan are on the prowl, some infiltrating across the border under the cover of darkness with protective firing provided by the Jawans of Pakistan to the Indian side to “scare away” the Indian Jawans and these terrorists are always on the look-out for opportunities to strike at the soft targets to rip apart the secular fabric of the State. Terrorist strikes are the order of the day in the State, in the process killing hundreds of innocents. It is fast becoming a communal cauldron and for any government at the Centre it seems, the State is going to be a chronic case of perennial headache.
Now, over to the southern parts of India.
Karnataka has somewhat limped back to normality after days of communal violence and atrocities by the majority community activists against minority Christian community. In Karnataka also, the Central government had to serve advisories to the State government several times under BJP leader B.S.Yeddyurappa to bring back the situation under control. I wonder whether the majority community was desperately waiting for a government of their own to come at the helm of affairs to settle scores with the minority communities under the slightest pretext. I think so.
Over to Tamil Nadu. Ruling D.M.K under Muthuvel Karunanidhi along with some other parties of his alliance have served an ultimatum to the Centre to intervene in strife-torn SriLanka with in two weeks by prevailing upon the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa to desist from attacking Tamils along the northern coast of SriLanka and have threatened to resign enmasse from the Parliament if the problem is not resolved by then. Meanwhile MDMK leader Vaiko and his deputy Kannappan have gone a step further by openly extending support to LTTE and its infamous leader Prabhakaran. Now both of them have been put behind bars for openly supporting the banned outfit, the main culprit behind the brutal assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.The list does not end here. Listing out them one by one takes much time. The North-Eastern States of Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura all find entrace to the list for the fissiparous and secessionist tendencies of a few elements. Our political leaders also will have to share some blame for all of these destructive tendencies because of their parochialism, soft communal attitudes while openly declaring their love of secularism, divide and rule tactics of our erstwhile British rulers and the wooing of some communal elements targeting vote-banks. Introspection and positive attitude are expected from all political parties. India is a federal State and try to see the nation as distinct entity and the politicians from each State have to bear this truth in mind. For nation of harmony, this is very important.
Lucky chap! Holding the whole state of Maharashtra to ransom, particularly the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai. Beating up and in the process, murdering one or two unemployed youth who came all the way from Bihar and U.P. to appear for a Railway Recruitment Board test in the city. I was shocked to see a horrible picture of one MNS activist mercilessly thundering blows on a hapless youth from Bihar in Navi Mumbai who came to appear for the RRB test. What for? The only reason being the “sole-heirs” of Maharashtra, the Marathis are being deprived of their rights by ‘aliens’ from the North Indian States. Yeah, ‘The sons of the soil principle’.
The legal process followed. Warrants issued to nab the master villain of the whole unfortunate happenings- Raj Thackeray, the megalomaniac. He was duly arrested from Ratnagiri of Maharashtra in the thick of night and put in prison for one night. The media wrote editorials demanding his long-term incarceration for holding the entire State to ransom and pleaded with the government and the law and order machinery not to allow the fellow and his group to disturb peace in the State particularly Mumbai. The news of his arrest spread like wild fire and all the hell broke loose. The leader’s followers ran like blood hounds carrying lethal weapons and went on the rampage. Train services held up, buses and shops torched, brutally assaulted the North Indian taxi drivers and street vendors to their heart’s content. The ever vibrant city of Mumbai came to stand-still and all the law-abiding citizens went indoors and locked themselves in their residences even then fearing the worst.
After one day of incarceration, the leader again let off the hook. Lucky chap! Celebrations were in the air, bursting of fire crackers followed, the city once again limped back to normality. Pathetic! A few lumpen elements could make the city life go haywire.
The man will be back to his business again. The one, who audaciously ignores the diktats of the Judiciary and State law and order machinery. Such is the plight of Mumbai and Mumbayites for the last two decades and more.
Parochialism, Terrorism and Communalism- the bane of a city and the bane of a nation. The tentacles of the monstrous hydra have spread even to remotest corners of the country. The whole nation is infact in the grip of a fear-psychosis.
Orissa is still in ferment. Innumerable cases of looting, arson and murders were reported from the Kandhamal and its adjoining areas. Even after repeated advisories of the Centre to the Orissa government to reign in the communal elements, bloody riots have not yet subsided. Minority Christians are brutally attacked, murdered and raped under the pretext of proselytisation. In Orissa it is a worst case of communalism.
Over to Assam. There, the Bodoland activists are up against the so-called illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. At a time when ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam) is keeping a slow profile, another area under another group is seething with simmering discontent leading to mayhem and all such cold-blooded inhuman activities.
Now over to another group from West Bengal. There also it is a case of parochialism and secessionism. The Gorkha land enthusiasts have taken up cudgels against the LDF ruled West Bengal government demanding a separate State of Gorkhaland consisting of Darjeeling Hills and contiguous areas. GJM (Gorkha Janamukti Morcha) have given a call to the people to clad in their customary ethnic dresses for one month and also remove the WB signs on the number plates of vehicle and affix the GL sign instead. Bimal Gurung and Roshan Giri, the prominent advocates of Gorkhaland are bent upon creating a separate State of Gorkhas by fighting it out with West Bengal government.
The case of Jammu and Kashmir is as usual. Simmering discontent is prevailing in the State from ‘time immemorial’, some champion the cause of Independent Jammu and Kashmir, some for autonomy while remaining a part of India, some other for total secession from India and also be a part of Pakistan and some others declaring Jammu and Kashmir, an integral part of India. Terrorists, owing allegiance to Pakistan are on the prowl, some infiltrating across the border under the cover of darkness with protective firing provided by the Jawans of Pakistan to the Indian side to “scare away” the Indian Jawans and these terrorists are always on the look-out for opportunities to strike at the soft targets to rip apart the secular fabric of the State. Terrorist strikes are the order of the day in the State, in the process killing hundreds of innocents. It is fast becoming a communal cauldron and for any government at the Centre it seems, the State is going to be a chronic case of perennial headache.
Now, over to the southern parts of India.
Karnataka has somewhat limped back to normality after days of communal violence and atrocities by the majority community activists against minority Christian community. In Karnataka also, the Central government had to serve advisories to the State government several times under BJP leader B.S.Yeddyurappa to bring back the situation under control. I wonder whether the majority community was desperately waiting for a government of their own to come at the helm of affairs to settle scores with the minority communities under the slightest pretext. I think so.
Over to Tamil Nadu. Ruling D.M.K under Muthuvel Karunanidhi along with some other parties of his alliance have served an ultimatum to the Centre to intervene in strife-torn SriLanka with in two weeks by prevailing upon the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa to desist from attacking Tamils along the northern coast of SriLanka and have threatened to resign enmasse from the Parliament if the problem is not resolved by then. Meanwhile MDMK leader Vaiko and his deputy Kannappan have gone a step further by openly extending support to LTTE and its infamous leader Prabhakaran. Now both of them have been put behind bars for openly supporting the banned outfit, the main culprit behind the brutal assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.The list does not end here. Listing out them one by one takes much time. The North-Eastern States of Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura all find entrace to the list for the fissiparous and secessionist tendencies of a few elements. Our political leaders also will have to share some blame for all of these destructive tendencies because of their parochialism, soft communal attitudes while openly declaring their love of secularism, divide and rule tactics of our erstwhile British rulers and the wooing of some communal elements targeting vote-banks. Introspection and positive attitude are expected from all political parties. India is a federal State and try to see the nation as distinct entity and the politicians from each State have to bear this truth in mind. For nation of harmony, this is very important.
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One cannot lump the democratic and Gandhian Gorkhaland movement with all others as described here, if "Penetrating Eyes' " eyes are truely penetrating.
What is wrong in citizens of India democratically demanding nothing but what is provided in the Constitution of India,in order to speed up the process of nation building?
Why push a legitimate movement against the wall with such irresponsible analysis?
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