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.
Caught in a barrage of criticism, Chief minister on Monday ordered a judicial probe into the BTAD violence.Gogoi has asked Chief Secretary JS Khosla to proceed for setting up a commission of a judge to probe the allegations of lapses resulting in the violence where 36 people were killed in three days.According to Gogoi, NIA would indict the culprits while the judicial commission will study the allegations of inaction and lapses.
Its confirm. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will visit the BTAD areas on Wednesday.Disclosing this Chief Minister’s Office told Assam Tines that Gogoi would be on a day long visit to the trouble torn areas on Wednesday.During his stock-taking visit, the Chief Minister is scheduled to visit the refugee camps.Apart from it, Gogoi would review the overall law and order situation in the violence-hit areas with senior police, army and para military officials. /
Repeated rhino poaching incidents seem to have riddled the Kaziranga National Park. Despite round-the-clock vigil, poachers have killed yet another rhino on Sunday.The incident took place at Bordolini under Bagori range where the forest guards spotted the carcass of a hornless female rhino on Monday morning.With this, the world heritage site has lost 18 rhinos during this this year. In May alone, the poachers have killed 2 rhinos for horns.
Simmering tension refuses to die down along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Sonitpur district. The epicenter is again the Chauldhuwa area in Bihali.A group of IRBN personnel from the neighbouring state disallowed a team of Assam forest officials to set up a camp in Chauldhuwa even within the territory of Assam.This could again lead to yet another incident of attack on Assamese people by the Arunachalese miscreants.
In a stepped up counter insurgency operation, security forces claimed to have killed a hardcore NDFB-S militant at an encounter in Udalguri district on Sunday.The encounter took place at Bhoiraguri with police and army where the hardcore militant was killed on the spot.Before that on Sunday morning three dreaded NDFD-S militants were killed in a four hour long fierce gun battle in Sonitpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh.
Security forces recovered two more bodies from two different places in Baksa district on Sunday. with this the death toll in the BTAD violence has gone up to 36 during the last 40 hours.Border area development minister Siddique Ahmed has visited the Govardhana village in Naraynpuri where the people agreed to bury the bodies of the victims on Sunday.BJP leader Bijoya Chakrabarty said that chief minister Tarun Gogoi has no moral courage to visit the areas.
Yet another dreaded NDFB-S militant was killed in the five hour long encounter with army and police in Sonitpur district on Sunday.The incident took place at Paharpur area in Rangapara bordering Arunachal Pradesh in the wee hours.The encounter is learnt to have taken place when NDFB-S militants lobbed a grenade at an army patrolling vehicle in the area. Two militants were killed in the wee hours while yet another was killed at 10 in the morning. More security forces have been deployed along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in the district.Army and police officials held a crucial meeting in Tezpur on Saturday to strengthen patrolling in view of the BTAD violence.
The BTAD violence toll has gone up to 34 with the recovery of yet another body on Sunday.Local residents recovered an unidentified body of a woman in Beki river at Manipuri basti area in the morning.The toll reached 33 with the death of a two year old girl at GMCH on Saturday evening. But it has gone up to 34 with the recovery of the body on Sunday.But 22 other people are still remaining clueless after the militant attack at Nonke Khagrabari village in Salbari sub division.
Two dreaded NDFB-S militants were believed to have been killed at an encounter with army and police in Sonitpur district on Sunday.The incident took place at Paharpur area in Rangapara bordering Arunachal Pradesh in the wee hours.The encounter is learnt to have taken place when NDFB-S militants lobbed a grenade at an army patrolling vehicle in the area.The army vehicle was partially damaged in the attack forcing police and army to retaliate with firing where two militants died on the spot.Army and police officials held a crucial meeting in Tezpur on Saturday to strengthen patrolling in view of the BTAD violence.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday said that the BTAD situation is under control.Talking to Sonia Gandhi over telephone in the morning, Gogoi apprised the Congress president of the preparedness to firmly deal with the situation in the trouble torn areas.The UPA chairperson called up Gogoi assuring him of all help from the Centre to improve the situation at an earlier date.Notably, 33 people were killed, 23 have been remaining traceless apart from injury of 30 others in a string of attacks on minority people./
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