TERRORISM AND INDIA

TERRORISM AND INDIA

Terrorism has become a menace for India. No part of the country is unaffected by terrorism. Every time an attack takes place, the government puts the blame on `failed' intelligence and even after years, the cases remain unsolved.

INDIA HAS been a soft target for the Pakistan and Bangladesh based terror-outfits for quite some time. While jihad against India has been the focus and main agenda of the Islamic terrorists, Kashmir issue, Babri demolition and Gujarat riots have become convenient reasons for the so-called liberals, secularists and rights activists to justify the actions of the terrorists and fundamentalists. The pseudo-secular politicians, who fight with one another for garnering the Muslim vote-bank, do not show the will and sincerity to put an end to this rapidly increasing menace.

               The politicians, in their greed for power, adopted divisive policies to divide the majority community along caste and class lines, while at the same time, they concentrated on capturing the minority vote banks in bulk by cajoling their religious heads, whose directions are religiously followed and obeyed by the community. The successive pseudo-secular governments started suppressing the rights of the majority community, while giving undue privileges to the minorities. These governments allowed the minority communities to have separate personal and civil laws instead of ensuring a Uniform Civil Code despite directions from the Supreme Court based on Article 44 of the Constitution. The official machinery remained as mute spectator when the minority community took the law into its hands for protesting against the incidents, which happened even outside the country like Danish cartoons, US’ invasion of Iraq, hanging of Saddam Hussein, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin’s book’s release and her stay in India, etc.

The country is surrounded by ’failed’ states like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal and a lot needs to be done with regard to national security. A track record of the last four years shows that the UPA has failed miserably with a scorecard of zero against the fear-blazing track record of terror!