Just when the
politics of terror seemed to have subsided allowing the Budget Session of the
Indian Parliament that started on February 21 2012 with the President of India
addressing the joint session maybe to work a little better than usual, the terror struck back in full ferocity,
venom and revenge. Two massive blasts ripped apart a prime market locality of Hyderabad, a major city of Southern
India, around 7 pm yesterday. The victims caught unawares could
hardly recover from shock and trauma of the first blast when another
high-intensity bomb went off just 100 meters away. Fortunately a third bomb
discovered in the same locality was defused in time. In a kind of a vicious
circle of terror the city of Hyderabad
got hit in 2002, 2007 and now 2013.
The real face of
the terror got exposed one more time. It did not discriminate while ripping
apart the innocent victims—killing 14 and maiming over 120 so far. The Home
Minister of India, Sushil Kumar Shinde, whose comment was utilized by various
forces to communalize terror recently got into the action mode immediately
briefing media and visiting the affected area this morning. The Prime Minister
condemned the cowardly act and announced compensation packages for the dead and
injured.
It was easy for
the media and all opposition political parties to blame the government because
there were intelligence inputs about possible strikes, particularly after two
key terrorists had been hanged over the last three months. But what government
as there were many governments in the union of India hopelessly divided on
jurisdiction of power and political affiliations? Who knows at what level of ‘divisions’
the alerts were either ignored or not acted upon properly? Yes, Indians are
soft targets for terror attacks over the decades, but this is basically due
more to a divided India
rather than to intelligence failures or lack of competent action. India have been
divided always on vote bank lines; on religion or ethnic or culture or
language or caste links; on rich-poor discrimination; on bureaucratic class hierarchy;
on military or police rank/position systems; on man-woman matters and on what
not.
On the second
day of the Budget Session today, all the members of the Indian Parliament stood
up to observe two-minute silence in memory of the Hyderabad Bomb Blast victims
and they looked to be really united. But, the moment the two minutes ended the
opposition members raised a din demanding answers for the tragedy leading to an
adjournment of both the houses despite the immensity of the tragedy and despite
the fact that the Home Minister was scheduled to make a statement on the floor
at 2 pm today.
It was in July
2011 when the terror last struck Mumbai and it was September the same year when
it struck the national capital Delhi.
Routine measures like declaring High Alerts do follow after every attack. But basically a divided India
is making it easy for the terror to come back again and again, and strike at will.
Get united completely
and cohesively, and eliminate terror. Stay divided, and get destroyed by
terror. The choice is ours.
