Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Happenings, happenings!

1. The noose tightens!

Eight days short of a year, serial offender, Mohammed Nisham has been found guilty by the Thrissur Additional and Sessions Court in the case of the murder of Chandrabose, a security guard. He'd mowed down Chandrabose with his Hummer at the Shobha City residential colony, 5 kms from the town, on 29 Jan '15.

In the course of the investigations, the then Commissioner of Police of Thrissur and four policemen were suspended for allowing the accused to have his way. Despite being behind bars, he wielded his enormous financial and political clout to sabotage the investigation.

Tomorrow the verdict will be announced and I'm sure the Malayalees, like me, are eagerly waiting to see as to what punishment the 'beast' gets!

2. Inciting students!

Following the sad suicide of Rohith Vemula in the Hyderabad University, it's disgusting to see politicians playing dirty tricks to further their narrow ends. Rahul Gandhi of the Congress, followed by Sitaram Yechury of the CPM have already fetched up at the campus and given their bytes. Arvind Kejriwal, from Delhi, is fetching up tomorrow to contribute to the wretched pantomime, aimed at making political mileage and if one were to go through each of these political leaders' statements, not a single guy has really mourned the dead student but has, instead, called for the resignations of the Vice Chancellor of the University - Incidentally, why has he been silent till now? Why doesn't he come up with the actual version of events to avoid distortion of facts in the media? - and the union ministers viz. Smriti Irani and Bhandaru Dattatreya! That Bhandaru Dattatreya, the MoS for Labour, is from a minority community, has paradoxically, blunted their argument of 'unfair dealing of a dalit', in this case!! 

And the reason?......The authorities seemingly had driven a 'dalit' student to despair leading to suicide. Consequently, the students of many parts of the country have been incited by these political parties to agitate and they'll watch the 'tamasha' when the violent students are tackled by the police forces! Reminds me of the 'Rajeev Goswami' incident when he'd immolated himself, in Delhi, during the agitations that followed the implementation of the Mandal Commission report by the then VP Singh government!

Or is it yet another sinister ploy of the combined opposition for the following:-

       (a) Stop PM Modi from functioning, at all costs, to discredit him among the people or
       (b) Make it the next point of confrontation in the forthcoming Budget Session of Parliament
             for another washout? The GST Bill must not be allowed to pass, you see because if it does,
             the PM is gonna get the credit..........the country's good be damned!


Tailpiece.

1. The Indian cricket team is taking a beating from the Australians and has lost the 4th ODI too despite centuries from its players and respectable scores. Nothing seems to be going right for it. Dhoni is gonna face the music because his winning ways seem to have eluded him!

2. The ISRO has done the country proud by successfully launching IRNSS-1E, the fifth navigation satellite. Seven such satellites are to be positioned in space to complete the constellation so as to provide valuable navigational data for the users.
     




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