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.
A sensational revelation seems to have generated no less heat within the Assam Congress these days. That too in the time of deepening dissidence within the Congress legislative body.
Trouble seems to have brewed for a former Union minister who is believed to have been harbouring dissident activities in the state. The former union minister is one among the twenty political leaders who are accused of holding account in foreign bank.
His name figures in a list submitted before the Supreme Court by senior leader Ram Jethmalani who charged him with stashing Rs 3,025 crores in foreign country.
The development assumes significance at a time when dissidence has paralyzed the Tarun Gogoi cabinet...
Four persons were killed at a tragic road mishap in Nagaon on Saturday. The accident took place when a vehicle carrying four persons collided its head on an ASTC passenger bus at Amguri in Kaliabor on the National Highway No 37 where the four passengers inside the Indica car were killed on the spot. They were identified as Prachurya Phukan, Latu Kalita, Mrinal Saikia.
A soon to be convened Congress legislature party meet will deal with the deepening dissidance drama within the party.
According to sources, AICC is all set to send an observer this week to read the pulse of the dissident MLAs and minister.
Sources said that the party high command has asked senior leader Motilal Vora as central observer with a hope that he would restore stability in the Congress legislature party.
This has forced the dissident lots remain silent till the CLP meet in Guwahati.
The Asom Gana Parishad's top officials have resigned en masse.
All leaders and officials of the regional party in the central committe resigned owning moral responsibility for the party's deplorable defeats in the recent Lok Sabha polls where the party couldnot open its account.
Top leaders told Assam Times that the party would hold a huge convention soon to elect new leaders.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked chief minister Tarun Gogoi to continue when the latter sought her permissiom to quit the office on Thursday. Top AICC sources told Assam Times that Gandhi refused to read the letter after Gogoi handed over it to her. Gandhi was believed to have told Gogoi that he was required in both the party and the state. Gogoi tendered his resignation owning moral responsibility for the party's defeat in the recent Lok Sabha poll where the ruling party managed to get only 3 seats out of 14.
Finally chief minister Tarun Gogoi put in his papers when he met Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Thursday. After holding a series of crucial meetings with Rahul Gandhi, Dr CP Joshi and Ahmed Patel, Gogoi meet the party president and tendered his resignation owning moral responsiblity for the party's defeat in the Lok Sabha. The senior Congress leaders asked Gogoi not to resign.
Congress high command is aware of the paralyzing dissident activities in the time of polls. According to top sources, senior Congress leaders are convinced of the dissident activities that paralyzed the party's poll prospects. The party high command is set to give Gogoi a free hand to firmly deal with the dissidents.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has asked Chief minister Tarun Gogoi not to quit for poll debacle. According to AICC sources, during Gandhi's telephonic conversation, he asked Gogoi that the resignation won't help the party. On the other hand, Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel and AICC general secretary Dr CP Joshi categorically asked Gogoi not to proceed with this step.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is all set to seek Sonia Gandhi's permission to quit a week after poll debacle. But AICC sources told Assam Times that the Congress president is unlikely to accept the move. Talking to reporters on Wednesday evening at the Assam Bhawan premises he confimed his decision. Three of his trusted cabinet colleagues Pradyut Bordoloi, Rockybul Hussain, Nilomoni Sendeka and Anjan Dutta are set to call on Gandhi to urge her not to accept the move. On the other...
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