From Akhlaq to Junaid the chain of lynching looks unending. Our PM Modiji said that killing in the name of cow bhakti is not acceptable, and he also said that nobody has the right to take the law into his own hands. But, he also added cow is sacred and protecting cows is needed and said Mahatma Gandhi spoke the most about protecting cows. On one side he condemned lynching but on the other he spoke in an assertive manner, which will encourage cow vigilantes to do more of such crimes.
Merely condemning the crime cannot be sufficient. The question is: where had these cow bhakts been prior to these three years of Modi sarkar? How come they have become so courageous suddenly? And moreover what action has the government taken against such cow vigilantes so far? Is it not crime if somebody lynches a human being like a beast just because he eats beef, or just because he belongs to a particular faith?
Our national leaders who were deeply concerned about the triple talaq and were ready to get the Islamic Shari’ah abolished, dubbing it an injustice to Muslim women have remained silent when the Muslim women are tragedy struck to see their loved husbands or sons lynched by human beasts. Is it not an injustice towards those women who are widowed, who are left unsheltered, and whose son, husband or brother gets lynched before their eyes? So many brutal cases of lynching have happened in our country during the last two years of the current sarkar and yet the politicians who were screaming for the justice of Muslim women on electronic media are now deaf and dumb. Or are they worried that if they speak for the victims, they too will be lynched? Whether they are really concerned about Muslim women or is it just a communal and political agenda?
The so-called protectors of our nation; the politicians, police force, courts all seem blind and insensitive to such open heinous crimes. We the citizens of India have lost hopes in the current trend in democracy. When a citizen of the nation gets lynched because of his dietary choice such as eating beef or trade in cattle, or for transporting cattle or on mere suspicion, what kind of nationalism our so-called nationalists are promoting?
Banning beef might be tolerated but the lynching of innocent human beings brutally just for what they eat cannot be tolerated. It is not the lynching of just Akhlaq or Junaid or somebody else but it is the lynching of more than 80% of Indians’ conscience within whom humanity is still alive. The NDA government needs to realise that though they behave blind and dumb to the incidents the whole world is watching them and raising voice against the injustice and cruelty.
On one side there are unfulfilled promises of employment, education and economic development, etc. On the other side our national leader is busy with his world tours in the name of developing intercontinental relationships and here the lynching goes on…