Saturday, July 26, 2008

Come Let's Destroy Terrorism !!!

Within the last 48 hours Bengaluru (Bangalore) or Karnataka & Ahmadabad of Gujarat has been rocked by 8 & 16 serial blasts. What exactly are the extremists trying to prove here? Do they think that waging a war against unarmed civilians is a great act of courage? People who think that this is an act of courage should be ashamed of themselves.

In the name of crusades, the extremists have been killing people left right & center all over the world. The government has condemned these attacks; however it'd be more appreciated if they don't just stop with condemning the attacks and also do something more effective to control these extremist groups. After all don’t we all deserve an effectively working government? Does the government think that granting a few hundred thousand bucks as compensation is going to change anything at all? It’s really pathetic that our politicians are more eager to announce such compensations immediately. The news from a news reader in a TV channel about this blast will immediately be followed by the condemning of attacks and the compensation. Disgusting politicians!!! The families that lost their loved ones deserve a better note of condolence and not an announcement about the compensation. On first hand, why should the government go in the path of compensating people instead of putting an end to such terrorist activities?
The fact that the government is more interested in providing compensation but isn’t so interested in stopping these kinds of acts is really a painful thing for all of us. For example a few days ago the head of Tamil Nadu police made a press release in which he has stated that no LTTE or naxals are there in the state. But immediately a few days later some terrorists belonging to LTTE and some naxals were arrested in the state. This shows how poorly the government is dealing with the terrorism related affairs.
Some time ago the US has offered to help India in controlling the extremist groups. I strongly feel that we’ve to capitalize on the advancements they’ve made in intelligence gathering and technology and it will be definitely helpful in controlling the extremist groups.
In recent days a real stupid way of campaign has been started off in India by some really stupid political groups. The campaign says that a stronger relation between India & the US is against Muslims. It is known to everyone that this campaign started off as an effort to make the government stay away from the signing the nuclear pact between India & US. If we agree to these kinds of campaigns then in the near future some group of people would start saying that the Taliban are Muslims; so any action against them is going to be an action against Muslims. The people of India should understand that these things aren’t any good and all the world countries should join their hands together against terrorism.
If a person is proven to be a terrorist after a conscious investigation then without any further thinking the person should be subject to a capital punishment. And this one shouldn’t be the one like the Afsalguru’s case wherein people are hesitant to hang him just because he’s a Muslim. This should be a starting point to put an end to all those ugly people who in the name of crusades are practicing extremism.

A post in tamil (தமிழ்) on the same topic can be found here

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Congress Lives !!!

Admidst a huge drama and horse trading Congress has managed to survive and now it has become certain that they'll rule the whole 5 years (ending by mid 2009). A lot of thanks should go to Mulayam Singh Yadav and his party MPs who supported congress. Of course, the support has certainly costed a lot to the Congress. The only reason why Mulayam & his fellow members have supported Congress is just to ensure that he can safe guard himself from the clutches of Mayawati.

There were real scary talks that a third front is being formed wherein the CPI(M), Mayawati & TDP were getting together and guess what's that they had in mind! Make Mayawati the PM of India if Congress fell. OH MY GOD!!!!! What's happening to India? Oh... never mind this question I keep asking this question to myself all day long and still not able to find answer. In a way I'm happy that Congress managed to survive this one; because I think that a great nation like India definitely deserves someone better than Mayawati.

Now coming to my home state affairs... (I can't talk about anything without mixing my home state's politics :-D)

What is that the supremo of DMK going to gain / loose from this. The ultimate gain is that his daughter (Poet?!? :-D) Kanimozhi is going to become a central minister and remain as one for about a year or so. However its not very sure of whether or not he'll be successful in expelling the PMK & Co from the Union Progressive Alliance (UPA). Since Congress had won on a minor difference expelling PMK means that they'll loose 6 MPs who are in support of them and that's not goint to do any good for Congress now. So this could still make Karunanidhi sad.

One thing that Congress has to keep in mind is that BJP is growing stronger and stronger day by day and they've won a considerable number of elections in the last few months and this is DEFINITELY NOT GOOD for Congress. So its high time for Congress to clear up the mess that they've made so far. However its kind of difficult because they've done a lot of damaage and in my opinion they are not going to be able to turn this one over easily.

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