Within four months of a sophisticated reconnaissance of a dry run of terror attack apparently in the same place in May 25, the terrorists finally carried out the dastardly blast near the reception entry of Delhi High Court on September 7 at 10:14 AM, reminding us a fact that the sovereignty of India can be attacked by anybody from inside or outside, and our leaders will behave in the same callous way by refraining from their accountability to the citizens of the country. How many terror strikes would be enough to really move these politicians and bureaucrats to wake up from their eternal slumber? How many times our PM and HM will read out the same rehearsed speech in the aftermath of blast to fulfill their formal protocol? How many times our HM will display his false intellectual arrogance by saying that handling terrorism with iron fist is a “complex” process? How many times the innocent citizens will pay their lives for the mistakes of our leaders who in all probability forget their responsibilities once they get elected for five years? How long the bureaucracy will bully the entire nation in the name of red tape? No one has a proper answer though to these real problems.
We all are seriously infected with a prolonged pernicious disease called “status quo”. The time is not far off from today when India will fall into hands of some destructive forces and still we will love our “chalta hai” attitude as if nothing has happened and flaunt our paradoxical great Indian resilience, an obsessive compulsive disorder that we think it's our preserved human value system.
It's the high time for citizens to wake up and demand their fundamental rights of living without fear and prejudice. Until there is no public upsurge against terrorism, our leaders will behave in the same shameless manner as they are doing now because the loss innocent citizens bear can never be felt by them. Every time a terrorist attack takes place in Delhi, the politicians, bureaucrats, law and enforcement agencies spring into a blame-game mode. The news channel keep the issue live and hot for few days and then they get back to their routine. And the real sufferers, the innocent citizens, are pushed into their own fate.
We can't tolerate this anymore. The incompetent political leaders who think can rule us for ever by devising dirty plans must understand that the Frankensteins they are devising through vote bank politics will backfire them someday. We must understand the fact that any act of terror is an attack on the sovereignty of our country and any amount of tolerance to terrorism however small should not be encouraged by any political outfit. And most importantly the security of our nation should not be bugged down by our frivolous foreign policy which has no rationality when the sovereignty our nation is at stake. Beyond the ambit of reactive measures that our forces are used to, the law and enforcement departments should act autonomously to take serious preventive anti-terrorism measures. We must act tough now.
Showing posts with label Terror Attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terror Attack. Show all posts
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
How much is too much?
Has India learnt anything from the frequent terror strikes in Mumbai? A question that everyone raises to the political leaders of this country. Every time when a terrorist attack occurs, the political leaders try to assuage people by assuring them a safe and secured future and propose a variety of advance security measures that never gets implemented. And the so called resilient and high-spirited people forget everything as if nothing has happened and get back to work day after, in that those people not only display their inherent compulsions but also to a large degree of indifference to the events around them.
Especially, Mumbai's tryst with terror attacks is not nascent, close to two decades these people have been suffering from the scourge of terror, and the financial hub of the nation always bears the brunt of political opportunism in this country. After each terror strike when some political parties show extreme fascism by boycotting the pluralistic nature of our society and declare a head-on war against terror, the other political parties pretend to be savior of democratic principles and go soft apparently on an extremely complex subject. In that tug of political war only the innocent people suffer.
Immediately after 26/11, the Union Home ministry suggested to act upon a series of crucial security measures including creation of a national counter-terrorism center and decentralized quick reaction teams, but literally after two-and-half years, the proposal is still shuttling between political whims and fancies of centre and state, and for sure no one knows how long this drama will continue. It seems there is no political urgency for internal security of this country. How many assaults India will bear before these political leaders wake up from the slumber? Why are they so insensitive to those people for whom they are enjoying the luxury of life? The public anger is fermenting vigorously and that will never subside until and unless these politicians act coherently to ensure a safer tomorrow.
Especially, Mumbai's tryst with terror attacks is not nascent, close to two decades these people have been suffering from the scourge of terror, and the financial hub of the nation always bears the brunt of political opportunism in this country. After each terror strike when some political parties show extreme fascism by boycotting the pluralistic nature of our society and declare a head-on war against terror, the other political parties pretend to be savior of democratic principles and go soft apparently on an extremely complex subject. In that tug of political war only the innocent people suffer.
Immediately after 26/11, the Union Home ministry suggested to act upon a series of crucial security measures including creation of a national counter-terrorism center and decentralized quick reaction teams, but literally after two-and-half years, the proposal is still shuttling between political whims and fancies of centre and state, and for sure no one knows how long this drama will continue. It seems there is no political urgency for internal security of this country. How many assaults India will bear before these political leaders wake up from the slumber? Why are they so insensitive to those people for whom they are enjoying the luxury of life? The public anger is fermenting vigorously and that will never subside until and unless these politicians act coherently to ensure a safer tomorrow.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Terror Strikes Back Maximum City
Once again the barbarous terrorists in their usual demonic style have attacked Mumbai through serial blasts at three places proving the fact that Indian intelligence agencies are nowhere close to intercept their brutish design in destabilizing the nation. Why Mumbai has been the soft target of bloody terrorists time and again? Count this: 1993, 2003, 2006, 2008, and 2011, and probably no one knows how many dates will add up to this malignant list in future? When will the government wake up from the slumber to understand the gravity of situation? Why does India pusillanimously tolerate these terror attacks and put the nation into demented shame? When will the political leaders of this country feel the profound pain of innocent citizens? Or these repugnant acts of terrorists will agonize the citizens for go?
Every time a terrorist attack takes place in Mumbai, the politicians, law and enforcement agencies, and media spring into action and start displaying their momentary heroic act to serve the victims and eventually the anger of people subsides, and some duplicitous opinion makers thrash out their false intellectual formulations, citing “Mumbaikers are truly resilient and they can get back to track soon forgetting everything as a virtual nightmare”. And Mumbaikers unmistakeably behave that way repeatedly on all these trying periods to live in a false sense of humility by bearing the brunt. Perhaps, that's the reason as to why Mumbai has been a regular soft target of terror strikes in last two decades.
These terrorist attacks must not be trivialized by the rhetoric of media. We can't undermine the priceless life of any citizen. Every act of terror is an attack on the sovereignty of the nation and should be strictly condemned. We must understand the fact that a terror strike is an indication of our serious security failure. We must act tough now, no lip service.
Every time a terrorist attack takes place in Mumbai, the politicians, law and enforcement agencies, and media spring into action and start displaying their momentary heroic act to serve the victims and eventually the anger of people subsides, and some duplicitous opinion makers thrash out their false intellectual formulations, citing “Mumbaikers are truly resilient and they can get back to track soon forgetting everything as a virtual nightmare”. And Mumbaikers unmistakeably behave that way repeatedly on all these trying periods to live in a false sense of humility by bearing the brunt. Perhaps, that's the reason as to why Mumbai has been a regular soft target of terror strikes in last two decades.
These terrorist attacks must not be trivialized by the rhetoric of media. We can't undermine the priceless life of any citizen. Every act of terror is an attack on the sovereignty of the nation and should be strictly condemned. We must understand the fact that a terror strike is an indication of our serious security failure. We must act tough now, no lip service.
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