The nation is gearing up to celebrate its 61st year of independence this 15th August, but somewhere in the most terror-prone state of J&K valley; you find people lying dead on the streets. It is not because of some terrorist attack or some epidemic. It is because of a deadlier weapon called “RELIGION”.
The state government’s proposal to allot land to a board of religious shrine sparked off the protests. For the past one month the state has been burning down taking this issue so seriously that even the ruling government had been brought down. While this situation was so volatile, our PM was busy saving his chair in the “BIG TRUST VOTE”. A major crisis of this intensity could have been easily averted if the Govt. had acted in a proactive manner. Adding salt to the wound is what the hurriyats, maliks, VHP’s are doing now as always.
The religious passion of the common man has been exploited by these political fanatics which has brought the whole state to a standstill. The common man’s life has been the most affected as people can’t get the necessary supplements like food and medicine as the curfew has been imposed citing the reason religious riots are being expected.
Now who is responsible for the present tumultuous situation?
Is it the ruling Govt. which allotted the land to religious shrine?
Or
Is it the political parties which made a big issue of the allotment?
Or
Is it the people who started supporting the protests?
It is up to we people to decide.
When we all gather proudly to sing the national anthem on this Independence Day, somewhere down that valley people would be singing religious anthems. Huh... What a shame. We proudly proclaim to be secularist country, but the fact is that we aren’t.
When people value religion more than anything how can we call us secular? Aren’t we pseudo secularists?
Some wise man said:
The state government’s proposal to allot land to a board of religious shrine sparked off the protests. For the past one month the state has been burning down taking this issue so seriously that even the ruling government had been brought down. While this situation was so volatile, our PM was busy saving his chair in the “BIG TRUST VOTE”. A major crisis of this intensity could have been easily averted if the Govt. had acted in a proactive manner. Adding salt to the wound is what the hurriyats, maliks, VHP’s are doing now as always.
The religious passion of the common man has been exploited by these political fanatics which has brought the whole state to a standstill. The common man’s life has been the most affected as people can’t get the necessary supplements like food and medicine as the curfew has been imposed citing the reason religious riots are being expected.
Now who is responsible for the present tumultuous situation?
Is it the ruling Govt. which allotted the land to religious shrine?
Or
Is it the political parties which made a big issue of the allotment?
Or
Is it the people who started supporting the protests?
It is up to we people to decide.
When we all gather proudly to sing the national anthem on this Independence Day, somewhere down that valley people would be singing religious anthems. Huh... What a shame. We proudly proclaim to be secularist country, but the fact is that we aren’t.
When people value religion more than anything how can we call us secular? Aren’t we pseudo secularists?
Some wise man said:
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”
Unless we realize what that wise man had meant we would continue to witness such incidents even while celebrating our 100th year of independence.
