DELHI RIOTS: A DANGEROUS TREND
that the national capital should be convulsed by
ugly communal riots which seem to have never occurred since the notorious 1984
anti-Sikh riots in the wake of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s
assassination, and that too the current riots occurring right at the time of
the American President Trump’s visit to India, especially Delhi. This does not
appear to be any sudden and unexpected eruption but reveals a deliberate and inhuman
sort of plotting behind to intentionally provoke, attack, injure and kill persons
of other communities, even the law enforcement officers, and in this editor’s
opinion reveals the utter incompetence of the Union Government and its Home
Minister who should have well anticipated all this mess and geared up the security
and law and order mechanism to meet such dangers. Of course, one cannot condone
the roles of various parties/ groups either. The anti-CAA protests indefinitely
going on at Shaheen Bagh, a nerve center of the city, and a total roadblock due
to it, was a standing provocation, aggravated by demands of the Hindu fanatic
leaders to get it vacated even by force. Though the Supreme Court had to and
did interfere to solve it by sending negotiators to persuade the protesters see
reason, lift the roadblock and close/shift their protests, the situation was
further intensified by extremists trying to extend the protests to block other centers,
especially when they occupied the roads in Jaffrabad-Maujpur area and even
barred entry/exit to/of a metro rail station. This generated a lot of
discontent, strong provocation to the irate opponents and exacerbated the situation.
But all this was only a preparation of the soil, and the real gory work of
riots was deliberate and well planned and it seems the hands of Islamic
terrorists are behind it if the free use of acid tanks, petrol bombs, country
made pistols, guns, etc. be taken into note as also that a big number of police
personnel got injured and a high ranking intelligence officer and a senior
constable were cruelly killed even. Nearly 50 human lives and crores of properties
have been lost and the communal atmosphere has been much vitiated. Now people
should rise above petty communal considerations, do all to get law and order
situation restored to normalcy first, get vacated all protests pro or against the
CAA/NPR/NRC tangle and mandate that any protests can take place at only some
indicated maidans for a limited period and never permitted to block
roads and cause troubles to the public and inflame communal/inhuman passions. §§§
