Delhi Blasts

Yet another serial blast in the span of a few months and that too in the heart of the country, and still one is not sure whether the blasts made enough noise for the govt. to sit up and take notice. Yes, there were the usual noises made be the powers that be about the need to maintain calm , monetary compensation for the victims and the next of kin and that was about it. There is no change in the ground realities, ‘intelligence’ failure has become so routine that it would be better if they rename it as ‘ignorance’, which is what it actually is. There can be no politics in tackling terrorism but it is invariably given a communal colour and pseudo-secular politicians come running to the defence of organizations like SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) ,a case in point is Lalu Prasad Yadav who openly defended the lifting of ban on SIMI. The Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, has come under lot of criticism and rightly so for his inept handling of internal security related matters. But in a parliamentary democracy ,there is the concept of ‘collective responsibility’ and the whole UPA govt. is responsible for this state of affairs. While there cannot be foolproof security everywhere at all the times, but the least govt. can do is to frame stringent anti-terror laws and ensure their compliance. The 1993 Bombay blast trials got concluded last year ,and this is where the crux of the problem lies. There is no deterrent effect of law if the perpetrators know that one they won’t be caught and second even if they are caught then the trials will go on and on much like the Duracell batteries. It is high time that we as the citizens of India also take some responsibility of defeating the terrorists. We need to be vigilant in public places and cooperate with law enforcement agencies. There is no way these terrorists would have succeeded but for the logisitical help provided by some misguided sections of society who wrongly feel that killing innocents is justified in the name of religion. No religion can justify these killings and those who have done this are surely going to hell one way or the other.