First of all lets start with Praying for the departed soul of Constable Subhash Tomar. There are lots of speculations about the cause of his death. But I think the cause of death doesn’t matter for a son who looses his father or a wife who looses her husband. The constant scrutiny of the cause of death and the blame game that has surrounded it, must have only made the family more frustrated. My sincere condolences with the family. Nobody in the mob of protester at the India gate would have wanted this to happen under any circumstances.
Just a thought here, the family of the late constable gets full state honurs and financial help. which is completely justified with him being the sole bread earner for the family, my point is not against him in any way, what I am thinking is what does a poor girl get after being brutally raped? A life full of social stigma and getting cut off from the society because she could not fight for her own modesty? Getting justice is like searching for a pin in a stack of hay at night. Is this fair on the part of the society? While at the same time people like Mr Gopal Kanda, behind bars for abetting the suicide of an innocent girl are given the title of Sher-e-Haryana. For that matter recently elected MLA of Himachal who is on the run from Haryana police for the murder of a girl.
The protesters including Men, women of all ages were beaten up by the Male Policemen on last Sunday, all the papers run images of male policemen beating up women and men with lathis, my first thought was will their children never ask them, Why? Or will they ever be able to explain their stand on this to themselves? Would they have done the same had their children been on the receiving end?
So the very next day the HM justifies the action saying that it is difficult to separate hooligans from peaceful protestors, agreed so instead of taking a call of not hitting them you took a call to hit all of them alike. Amazingly intelligent decision I must comment. When our Mr Home Minister was asked as to why he did not go to India gate to talk to the protestors, he ends up comparing the students and young people to aadivasis and Maoists. Do these people even think before saying anything on National television? Well I don’t think we can blame him after the #theekhai debacle by Mr Manmohan Singh the brunt of which was faced by 5 doordarshan workers.
Meanwhile our `I am not a quitter` Commissioner calls the beating up of peaceful protestors as collateral damage. So I guess what he meant when he said I am not a quitter was that he wont quit making comments which are wrong on so many levels that I am at loss of anymore sarcastic words for him. Another thought that crosses my mind is that allegedly they found out the Murderers of late Mr Tomar from video footage. Tomorrow if someone files a case against the police for beating up women, they would be at loss of proof because the video tape doesn’t have any.
The best comment I came across recently was from the Head of Congress in Andhra Pradesh and I quote as per the NDTV news dated 24th December 2012. `We say we got freedom at midnight but that doesn’t mean that women should roam freely at night.` So I guess the disease of giving awfully incorrect statements runs in the whole Congress family. I guess congress still hasn’t understood that it is this male chauvinist attitude that the youth wants to change.
Our Lt Governor of Delhi cut short his US vacation more than a week after the incident, and still tries to clarify that he had done so on his own and nobody asked him to come back to India. First of all you did not oblige anybody, it is your duty to do so and secondly, this would have been a good opening line had you reached India earlier, not when the situation has blown out of proportion.
Meanwhile 9 days later our President also wakes up and says that the anger is justified and the necessary actions will be taken. We have been hearing this since 2004 when congress came into power. Till today we haven’t come to see or even hear the actions they are talking about Period !!
As the political machinery and the police machinery keep running pillar to post to get the blame off of each other and making pathetic comments on national Television the protests are still going on and the Govt needs to understand that we need to know time bound actions that will be taken for the rape cases around the country, even for the cases that have been pending since long. Is the top brass of our govt. so high headed that in their Ego they are not trying to pacify the situation but letting it go out of hand everyday? Its time someone woke up because if these protests continue I don’t see a reason why the international press wont cover it. What then Mr Home Minister? What will the world think about us?
We are already the fourth most dangerous countries after Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan. Need I say more?
Peace
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