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?
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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.
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Did they see riots happening ONLY in Gujarat? They raised so many questions again Modi
Government but why are similar questions missing now?
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Why are they not making Tarun Gogoi Government
of Assam accountable for a very poor response?
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Will media ask Mr. Tarun Gogoi why he sent para
military forces so late!
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Why doesn’t media show the same eagerness to
interview the ‘victims’ of Kokrajhar, what provoked the riots? Like they did in
Gujrat
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If Gujrat is part of India,
so is Assam,
so why is INDIAN media so overtly cool about the Kokrajhar riots?
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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
Rightly put into words as to what a common man of this country thinks ....Hindus have no right over their Motherland and rest all can loot n plunder it.Vote-Bank Politics is a cruel Reality of this nation. If Muslims are not dying Please don't call them Communal riots in India ! That's the Congress Mentality. The Whole country is under security threat, terrorism n communal riots, but our Paid Media and Congressi Besharams are still wandering in Gujarat. Assam is PM's constituency but he is far too busy saving his Govt that he doesnt have the time to utter a word..Maut Ke Saudagars are not taking any action .. Police is as incapable and insensitive as it was in Assam Molestation case and all other cases...
ReplyDeleteThank you Ms. Gupta for your valuable comment. as rightly put by you, we have a Pm & his team which is more concerned about saving their govt rather than saving people. this is the nadir of India's politics and wil continue till the time Congress considers its duty to address the interests of the nation than that of 10J. till then, this party will not do anything worthwhile. i sincerely hope situation changes in 2014
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