Just Another Incident: Situation Under Control

Now I am guessing if the title of this blog is apt…coz I wanted the title to sound similar to what, would eventually, be the official statement of Union & Assam Sate Government.

I think it would be more or less the same because for them the ongoing ‘incident’ at Kokrajhar is not something major as no major media house yet has covered it properly…

50000 people have been rendered homeless and it continues, needless to mention the fatal loss to twenty one lives (as per official report) and unknown loss of property. Does the magnum of such an ‘incident’ render it as small or it qualifies as a riot. A communal riot rather.

While not much has come from the Indian media, BBC reports that illegal Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh had clashed with local  bodos at Kokrajhar.

As per BBC report “Police say that the clashes began when unidentified men killed four youths on Friday night in Kokrajhar district, an area dominated by the Bodo tribe.They say that armed Bodos attacked Muslims in retaliation, suspecting them to be behind the killings. Soon afterwards unidentified groups set houses, schools, and vehicles ablaze, police said, firing indiscriminately from automatic weapons in populated areas” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18964870

The word to be observed is Retaliation…when do people retaliate? Answer is when they are attacked. So Bodos were attacked first and then the retaliation happened. Secondly, in the retaliation both sides inflicted injuries & deaths upon each other. And at the time of writing this blog, shoot at sight had been ordered. So I assume it is not just another incident.

Herein I want to particularly discuss the roles of A) Media and B) Congress Party

What appalled me was the sheer ludicrous approach of our local media. What happened to their ‘never ending’ quench to find stories, to reveal truth? Or is it that they found bigger story in who was going to dine & who was going to miss the Presidential dinner? Or they did not find covering Kokrajhar riots worth an effort?

v     Whatever happened to these vanguards of our society who took up virtually every possible cudgel against Narendra Modi Govt, in fact they continue to do it even now very earnestly.

v     Did they see riots happening ONLY in Gujarat? They raised so many questions again Modi Government but why are similar questions missing now?

v     Why are they not making Tarun Gogoi Government of Assam accountable for a very poor response?

v     Will media ask Mr. Tarun Gogoi why he sent para military forces so late!

v     Why doesn’t media show the same eagerness to interview the ‘victims’ of Kokrajhar, what provoked the riots? Like they did in Gujrat

v     If Gujrat is part of India, so is Assam, so why is INDIAN media so overtly cool about the Kokrajhar riots?

v     Will media keep referring to Kokrajhar riots every time a debate comes up on Congress rule, like they do in the case of Gujrat riots?

Congress has played even a better role. While the party and its allies continued to merry and dine over the selection of a arranger as our next president, no body even remarked once about such a major loss of lives.

So do they have the moral responsibility to question Modi when such riots are happening in their own state? Needless to mention, 84 Sikh riots, Hashimpura, Hyderabad riots which ALL happened in Congress run states? But they still criticize Modi because Muslims were attacked… so what?

The value of any loss of life is same but Congress saw loss of lives only in Gujarat

Kokrajhar riots are a result of a sustained policy of Congress implemented over decades to fulfill just ONE objective- creating vote banks. It allowed rather encouraged a continuous inflow of illelgal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh and today we know the price. A loss of life. Not to mention, employment and economic problems states faced because of these unwanted guests.

Despite regular warnings from BJP & RSS, the illegal immigrant issue remained unheeded. Should politics be played over the interests of the nation and its own indigenous people. Guess Congress thinks so!

While I sign off, I leave this picture (source-BBC) to leave us all pondering if this is what should have happened to our own state & people facing riots from illegal immigrants

It is NOT just an incident and situation is yet NOT under control but it better be

Actively Inactive - Hail The New Leader

So at last it happens! The scion of the ‘first family’ of Indian politics decides that he is going to play a more active role. Only that this realization or decision happened after spending almost a decade in Indian politics!

May be for Congress, the position of Gen. Secretary or President of Indian youth congress, of course at a ripe ‘young’ age of 42, does not tantamount to playing an ‘active’ role. So was Mr. Rahul Gandhi really so inactive at such important positions.

And in retrospect, I should congratulate Congress for being so daring as to leave the entire UP state elections campaign planning at the hands of a man who was not ‘active’. So should we assume that Congress took the electorate of UP so lightly. Perhaps it did! Kudos!

Does it also speak about the party for playing its role of, living upto the expectations of 10 Janpath before the interests of the nation, to the core? It needs no second thought to guess that yet again the party manifests its undying ‘loyalty’ to a family rather than party democracy forget national interests.

Congress has done it in past, and I am sure it will continue to do in future…at least till the time children of Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi too realize that they are ready to play an ‘active’ role in politics and government.

Coming to the bigger question, is running a government equal to running a personal business that ministry and role are offered to someone just because he ‘feels’ that he is ready for it. Well Rahul can not be blamed for it since he has been made to believe that running the government of this country is his family business.

Who is Rahul Gandhi ? what is his claim to fame?

Isn’t his surname the only claim to fame in his arsenal? Has he done anything worthwhile, till now so as to elevate him in the minds of critics like me to accept hims for his qualities and NOT his surname?

Hasn’t he time and again failed in his missions, his campaigns, his plans , his ideas? doesn’t action speak thousand words …so what great action, does he think he has done, which suddenly prepares him for a role.

Apart from making false promises to poor villagers of Vidharbha and UP and making simply absurd statements on terrorism, what has he done? How many times he has ‘spoken’ in the parliament. My memory fails me because I have never seen him speaking in parliament but just reading and that too only once or twice in so many years and we should look at such a man to ‘declare’ his readiness to head a ministry! Was it his maturity on the anvil when we saw hi comparing people of UP as beggars in Maharshtra? Haven’t we had enough of incompetent ministers already? We can not add one more.

Can any one recall, on their finger tips, at least his ten achievements…has he done anything worthwhile in his constituency? Answer is NO. Can any one share one path breaking idea of his, a person who is looked upon as future of India’s oldest political party! Answer, sadly again, is NO.

Congress and UPA have to answer the nation. It simply can not work on pure whims and ‘feelings’ of an individual even if he has a Gandhi surname!

Rahul has not proved anything till date enabling him to become a MP in the first place, leave alone heading a ministry…and worse is that Congress sees in him our future PM.