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It is now well over 24 hours since
the worst terrorist attack in independent India; and the Govt of
Maharshtra and/or the Union Govt have not a clue as to how could it
all happen right under their nose.
To the everlasting shame of the
Maharashtra administration, when it comes to attacking and killing a
young man from Patna cornered inside a BEST bus, the Mumbai police
showed great "promptness", "alacrity", and "success" in resolving a
"dangerous" situation. The police received accolades from the CM,
Vilasrao Deshmukh and the man supposedly the architect of rebuilding
Maharashtra, Raj Thackeray. Yet the same police, the same Maharashtra
administration, is clueless in apprehending boatloads of men, armed
with heavy firepower, who offloaded from a large vessel in the Arabial
Sea and quickly established command centers inside luxury hotels and
other locations insde the city loved by Maharshtrians and by Indians
as well. To add insult to injury, a senior member of the Union
cabinet, and a member of the ruling Congress Party brazenly proclaims
that the attack was many months in the making,
(click here for the news item)
unasahmedly failing to address the isuue as to what were the different
arms of government responsible for national security and maintenance
of law and order doing in the meantime.
As we pour our angusih and sorrow
at the tragic incident, I as a Bihari cannot lose sight of the fact
that people who matter in Maharashtra are quick to incite violence
against Biharis and other north Indians, while they are completely
oblivious to the dark, dangerous and evil forces that have the
destruction of our nation as their avowed goal. Aren't these
Maharashtrian "leaders", Vilasrao Deshmukh and Raj Thackeray, for
example, not acting as accomplices of those engaged in destroying our
nation?
Manmohan Singh, and all those who
rule India with a cobbled coalition, must rise to the occasion
and face the challenge facing the nation. It is time that they, by
their actions, instill in us a sense of nationhood. Forces that
promote parochial- and provinciali-sm must be punished and silenced
forever. They must show the political will that in the interest of
protecting our national interest they will not hesitate to condemn tha
utterings and actions of goons like Raj Thackeray and his accomplice
Vilasrao Deshmukh.
We live in dangerous times. We
must show to the world that we the people of India firmly believe that
India is for Indians. Enough of Maharashtra for Maharashtrians
nonsense.
And as for those
pseudo-journalists who are quick to use Patna as an epithet ("We must
not allow Mumbai to become a Patna", for example, in their writings):
If they have an ounce of shame in them, and if they truly are a
well-wisher of the Indian nation, they would stop wallowing in this
kind of destructive rhetoric, tuck their tail between their legs, and
do their part in nation building rather than nation-disruption. |