Animal sacrifice in Durga puja strikes no less shock and anger among many organizations and individuals across the state.
Dozens of buffalos and goats are being sacrificed in many temples in the name of Durga puja from Tuesday. A glimpse of the buffalos, goats, ducks and pigeons being kept for sacrifice at the historic Kamakhya temple premises really shocks the animal lovers. Same it is in many places where the same shocking tradition is allowed in Durga Puja.
“We are helpless. We have been dead opposed to the tradition of animal sacrifice. But the organizers have been refusing to read our campaign. This is a matter of grave concern,” said Shailen Saikia from Sivasagar district who has been campaigning againstanimal sacrifice.
Juli Chutia from Kakojan area in Jorhat told Assam Times that the people must understand the reality. “The things have undergone a sea change now. Everywhere change reigns supreme. But we don’t understand why we are still stick to this tradition. Our minds need to be changed.”
“It would take time to end the tradition of animal sacrifice. If 1000 buffalos and 5000 goats were sacrificed ten years ago, now 50 buffalos and 100 goats are being sacrificed,” said Pranjal Bora from Nagaon.
Bora who is running a non governmental organization told Assam Times over telephone that a massive campaign is the need of the hour againstanimal sacrifice which has yet to take place. “The campaign should have taken place at least 3 months before the commencement of the Durga puja. People from the nook and corner of the state should be aware of it. But I do hope that after 20 years the tradition of animal sacrifice would die down,” he said.
PermalinkSubmitted by amlesh on Wed, 21/10/2015 - 14:34
I think it is time to do away with animal sacrifice. It is a barbaric practise.It should stop both for hindu festivals as well as for other religions like for bakrid.
PermalinkSubmitted by Jaishankar Babu on Mon, 25/09/2017 - 13:38
About 150 years back it was a 'religious custom' in India to force widows to get burnt on their husband's funeral pyre (Sati) today we consider it a barbaric tradition. Similarly, years from now, our future generations will look back at us and call us barbaric.
A god who wants the blood of an innocent animal to satisfy him/her cannot be called a god. It can only be a devil/demon. Rather the people who sacrifice animals (be it Bakr Id or Durga Pooja) are devils who sully the name of their god with their crime of killing innocent animals.
All Lok Sabha MPs from Assam took oath in Parliament on Thursday.
Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal took oath in Assam along with Rajen Gohain, Kamakhya Prasad Tasha, Biojoya Chakrabarty, Ramen Deka and Rameswar Teli. Sushmita Deb, MP from Silchar took oath in Bangla while Badaruddin Ajmal and Chirajuddin Amal took oath in English.
Congress MP from Koliabor Gaurav Gogoi was administered oath in Hindi.
Two rhino poachers were killed at an encounter with forest guards in Kaziranga on Thursday.
The one hour long gun battle near the Dipholu forest camp in Burapahar in the wee hours where the poacher duo were killed on the spot.
Forest guards further recovered a three not three rifle and a few cartages from the spot.
The Asom Gana Parishad has urged Centre’s intervention to ensure safe rescue of Onkarmal Agarwallah who is believed to have been kidnapped from Jharkhand on Tuesday.
The Opposition party on Wednesday has sent a memorandum to Union home minister Rajnath Singh seeking his steps to ensure the early and safe rescue of the top AGP leader.
A top businessmen from Guwahati is believed to have been in Jharkhand immediately after he landed in the state on Tuesday.
There is no trace of Onkarmal Agarwalla, after he arrived in Jharkhand on Tuesday morning from New Delhi.
According to information, the top AGP leader called up his family members at 4-50 in the wee hours from Sahibganj where they got to know that he arrived in the place.
But since then he has been missing and his mobile has been remaining switch off. He went to Jharkhand via New Delhi to ‘call on a BJP MP’ on Tuesday.
His family members in Guwahati have moved Sahibganj police station. But there is no trace of the businessman.
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No instruction for CLP meet Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s dissident colleagues are gearing up for the upcomong Congress legislative body meeting in Dispur.
A circle of ministers and MLAs want change in leadership. They are preparing to formally raise the issue to dislodge Gogoi.
But top sources told Assam Times that the high command has not asked the chief ministers to hold CLP meet to ensure trust of all legislators. Sonia Gandhi has already asked to continue his office.
According to AICC sources, Gogoi would discuss the massive reshuffle of the council of ministers after his return from New Delhi on Thursday.
Caught in a Catch-22 situation, the 3-member AICC panel has asked Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to resolve the dissidence within the legislative body at an earlier date.
Gogoi got the instruction after he held a series of meetings with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, AICC leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Dr CP Joshi and Motilal Vhora on Tuesday.
Guwahati Mayor Abir Patra has released the Saptahik Sacheton Khabor, a new Assamese weekly at a function in the city on Wednesday.
In his address, Patra said that media can play an important role in making the people aware of the day to day happenings around the world.
He urged the newspaper group to do a strong campaign against the crippling corruption and to ensure that the corrupt officials are punished.
Addressing the function, chief editor Utpal Das said that the weekly would leave no stone unturned to expose the corruption that paralyzes public life.“We will expose everything. We will mount pressure on the authorities so that the corrupt officials are not spared,” said Das.
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To be presided over by prime minister Narendra Modi, the meeting is expected to chalk out steps to detect and deport the immigrants from the country to fulfil the party’s principal poll promise.
Sources told Assam Times that the NDA government in its June 2 cabnet meeting will discuss a huge exercise across the country to identify all illegal Bangladeshi immigrants settled in after 1971 where Assam’s demography has been disturbed.
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Many youths sustained injury after policemen sprang upon them after they turned violent for cancellation of a pre recruitment training programme in Jorhat town on Sunday.
The incident took place at 6 in the morning when over 5000 youths from Jorhat, Sivasagar and Golaghat districts arrived at the Jorhat Stadium in response to an advertisement issued a few days back.
The training was to be arranged by a non governmental organization from Sunday morning to help the unemployed youths get recruited in army’s parachut regiment.
But the youths turned violent when the NGO officials informed that the programme was cancelled bereft of any reason.
A section of the youths assaulted the NGO...
A police constable has sustained serious injury at an encounter with Naga miscreants in Karbi Aglong district on Sunday.
The encounter between police and Naga miscreants took place in the wee hours at Lahorijan area along the Assam-Nagaland interstate border where the miscreants from the neighbouring state have been on encroachment spree.
According to information, the heavy gunfight began when the armed miscreants who are believed to have been backed by NSCN militants were trying to encroach upon a plot beyond their territory.
As they came to saw a team of police on their patrolling duty, the miscreants started firing at them forcing the police to retaliate. Police constable R Teron...
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