Tarun Vijay
When Haryana is under severe stress and thirty people have lost lives because of the unruly followers of a person who is held guilty of a heinous crime, the time is to address the problem collectively and unitedly, rather than use the problem for sectarian and political profit. There is nothing spiritual in what we are seeing in these states. Nothing that represents culture. Its a vulgar display of violence that must be curbed. Those who are making a campaign to demand resignation from CM Manohar Lal Khattar, is like taking a political revenge on Haryana, in need of an immediate calming effect.
Can we turn the catastrophe an Indian state is passing through into a political opportunity to take revenge on the opponents? Is the best time to change the guard in Haryana? Why are we blind to the fact that the problem is not just limited to Haryana but has engulfed many Punjab areas too. It is the hatred for a particular party and ideology that media and political opposition is looking at Haryana alone. Is this not a time when both the parties ruling these states must come together and have a situation where Capt. Amarinder Singh and Manohar Lal Khattar work together, pool their resources and help everyone douse the fire? None in media or in the political arena is trying to have a political consensus against the rogue elements and save lives .
The first priority should be to ensure peace and safety of the citizens and restore normalcy. There are certainly serious lapses on part of the administration and intelligence. They must be looked into and severe punishment be given to those who took their job lightly. Till then stop playing political games.
The worst political vulture-ism is displayed by Kerala’s CM Pinarayi Vijayan who wrote to the Prime Minister asking to ensure safety to Keralites in Haryana. To become parochial and to try rubbing salt on the wounds of Haryana people can be termed as an act of enemy alone. He has proved to be, insensitive to his Indian ness, rude to the people of another state as if a state CM has nothing to do with the safety of persons belonging to another state and extracting a newsy headline while the dead are being morned.
Same is the case with a section of media which is known to be nursing a deadly hatred for Mr Modi and his colleagues. They have started an incessant campaign for the ouster of Mr Khattar. In fact its not Khattar but the BJP pariwar they are targeting at. That are showing pictures of BJP leaders with Baba Ram Rahim, and deleting their own odes to the Baba when he was in the process of releasing a movie on his-‘heroic actions’. The honesty of these journalists is so ‘high’ that they wont show Baba’s pics with Congress leaders and announce – the BJP was friendly with Baba. So BJP should have considered the Baba a proven culprit even before the judgment was pronounced ?
It is for the society to decide whom does it wants to follow or not. Baba Ram Rahim’s following is not a matter of political set up done artificially. They must be made to realise that spirituality is not vandalism and violence. A spiritual persons’ followers must know how to get justice through the available gateways of redress and make use of them prudently rather behaving in manner that punishes the common citizens and shuts all doors to appeals.
Dharma is synonymous with calmness and an unquestionable austerity. Baba Ram Rahim will serve his clan and society by ensuring that his followers behave like followers of a spiritual person .The cost Haryana and Punjab are paying for his actions is more than the what is being calculated. Its the trust in spiritual personalities that has gone abysmally low. Insulting the law, instigating violence, living ostentatiously and preaching godliness ? This vulgar hypocrisy needs peoples’ rejection and a revolt. Don’t blame Govt for that.
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