Indians all over the universe rejoice, one of the main plotters and planners of the dastardly terrorist attack on the 'temple' of our democracy Afzal Guru has met his just end at the end of a long rope within the precincts of the national capital's Tihar Jails' barracks number 3 thereby bringing to an end a sordid tale off machinations against our motherland........
Just to jog the memory of all my fellow Indians who might not remember whatever happened on that fateful day, our parliament was attacked by a motley group of five Pakistani terrorists on December 13,2001 when the winter session of parliament was on, they were ultimately gunned down after a fierce fight with our valiant security forces, but only after close to twenty security personnel sacrificed their lives to preserve the sanctity of our parliamentary democracy........
The said Afzal Guru was apprehended from Kashmir and was incarcerated in the Tihar Jail ever since, the charges of plotting, planning as well as providing logistical support to this dastardly attack were proved beyond all reasonable doubt and he was sent to the gallows as a result; he did try his utmost to get the death penalty remitted into a life sentence but exhausted all his remedial measures earlier this week with the presidential dismissing his mercy petition.......
One really wonders why the present ruling dispensation is suddenly showing signs of adopting a zero tolerance policy against all terrorists and their overlords after going soft on them for all these years, are they really bent upon sending out signals to the effect that all terrorist activity will be quelled with an iron hand or then was this long delayed hanging judiciously expedited keeping in mind the fact that the credibility of this government was at an all time low and that such sending out such strong and unambiguous signals would stand them in good stead in both the state as well as general elections that are not too far off........
Setting all scepticism aside for the moment, February 9, 2013 should certainly go down as a day of joy, merrymaking and celebration on the calendar of any and every patriotic Indian, henceforth, let's mark this day as a a national festival and the beginning of the end of terrorism, terrorists and their patrons from our midst........
Kudos are also due to President Pranab Mukherjee for displaying the courage, fortitude and clarity of thought to outrightly dismiss the mercy petitions of both Ajmal Aamir Kasab and Afzal Guru within the relatively short span of six and a quarter months, thereby giving rise to a spate of questions about why his predecessor in the Rashtrapati Bhavan; Pratibha Devisinh Patil kept sitting on these very same mercy petitions for almost the entire length of her tenure??????
One only hopes and prays that the government will now at least set aside all narrow political and sectarian considerations and also send former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as well as former Punjab chief minister's Beant Singh's assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana to the gallows forthwith........
Send out clear and no nonsense signals and not confusing and ambiguous signals about Indian government's adopting a blow hot blow cold attitude in the perennial war against terrorism if that indeed is your avowed aim and intention as we have fortunately or unfortunately earned this sobriquet of being soft on terrorism, so do let's review our policy if there is one in this regard post haste and let the rest of the world know that the Indian nation is no longer willing to be a sitting duck so all enemies of the Indian nation beware..........
Just to jog the memory of all my fellow Indians who might not remember whatever happened on that fateful day, our parliament was attacked by a motley group of five Pakistani terrorists on December 13,2001 when the winter session of parliament was on, they were ultimately gunned down after a fierce fight with our valiant security forces, but only after close to twenty security personnel sacrificed their lives to preserve the sanctity of our parliamentary democracy........
The said Afzal Guru was apprehended from Kashmir and was incarcerated in the Tihar Jail ever since, the charges of plotting, planning as well as providing logistical support to this dastardly attack were proved beyond all reasonable doubt and he was sent to the gallows as a result; he did try his utmost to get the death penalty remitted into a life sentence but exhausted all his remedial measures earlier this week with the presidential dismissing his mercy petition.......
One really wonders why the present ruling dispensation is suddenly showing signs of adopting a zero tolerance policy against all terrorists and their overlords after going soft on them for all these years, are they really bent upon sending out signals to the effect that all terrorist activity will be quelled with an iron hand or then was this long delayed hanging judiciously expedited keeping in mind the fact that the credibility of this government was at an all time low and that such sending out such strong and unambiguous signals would stand them in good stead in both the state as well as general elections that are not too far off........
Setting all scepticism aside for the moment, February 9, 2013 should certainly go down as a day of joy, merrymaking and celebration on the calendar of any and every patriotic Indian, henceforth, let's mark this day as a a national festival and the beginning of the end of terrorism, terrorists and their patrons from our midst........
Kudos are also due to President Pranab Mukherjee for displaying the courage, fortitude and clarity of thought to outrightly dismiss the mercy petitions of both Ajmal Aamir Kasab and Afzal Guru within the relatively short span of six and a quarter months, thereby giving rise to a spate of questions about why his predecessor in the Rashtrapati Bhavan; Pratibha Devisinh Patil kept sitting on these very same mercy petitions for almost the entire length of her tenure??????
One only hopes and prays that the government will now at least set aside all narrow political and sectarian considerations and also send former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as well as former Punjab chief minister's Beant Singh's assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana to the gallows forthwith........
Send out clear and no nonsense signals and not confusing and ambiguous signals about Indian government's adopting a blow hot blow cold attitude in the perennial war against terrorism if that indeed is your avowed aim and intention as we have fortunately or unfortunately earned this sobriquet of being soft on terrorism, so do let's review our policy if there is one in this regard post haste and let the rest of the world know that the Indian nation is no longer willing to be a sitting duck so all enemies of the Indian nation beware..........
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