Wednesday, January 26, 2011

It's time to hang our heads in shame!

The brutal killing of Yashwant Sonawane, the Addl District Collector of Nasik, by the oil mafia on the eve of the Republic Day has brought us immense sadness and all right thinking Indians ought to hang their heads in shame. How can such an act take place in public and what was the crowd doing? It's poetic justice that the guy who'd actually torched the Collector is himself battling for life with third degree burns!

And more cases of high handedness (mind you, these are the ones covered by the media), I'm sure there're many, many more cases that've not been reported:-
(a) Chandrakant Patkar, Civil Engineer of the Kalyan Municipal Corporation killed for trying
to collect electricity dues from a local politician.
(b) Vikrant Karnik, an RTI activist stabbed repeatedly for questioning CRZ violations by builders/politicians in Bombay.
(c) Amarnath Pandey, another RTI activist shot at for raising the BDO's corrupt practices with
the NREGS funds in a district of UP.

Against this backdrop, as I watched the Republic Day celebrations of Delhi, on TV, I felt a tremendous amount of melancholy and on a personal note, felt that there was nothing to rejoice if the law of the jungle were to prevail upon this country. It's my fond hope that the perpetrators of the crime are brought to book at the earliest.

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