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.
Repolling is over in altogether 15 booths covering four Lok Sabha constituencies on Sunday. The fresh polling was by and large peaceful. There was no report of any incident during these 10 hours.Voters in large number were seen waiting to vote in the polling booths till the end of the polling which began at 7 in the morning.The booths include three in Guwahati, nine in Kokrajhar and two in Nagaon and one in Mongoldoi constituency where polling was disrupted because of EVM malfunctioning.Guwahati polling booths include No 1 Hengrabari LP School, No 180 Ganeshpara School and Ramchariny School under West Guwahati Assembly segment.The repolling comcluded peacefully at 5 in the evening.
KMSS on Sunday demanded immediate arrest of Guwahati returning officer Ashotosh Kumar Agnihotri in connection with the vote rigging in Jalukbari on Thursday.Addressing press conference in Guwahati, KMSS president Akhil Gogoi alleged that the incident did not took place without his knowledge.Gogoi also demanded repoll in the entire Jalukbari assembly segment and a CBI probe into the entire incident in view of clear evidence of rigging.“Earlier we raised doubts over the functioning of the electronic voting machines. But the election authorities hardly listened to us,” said Gogoi.
The Asom Gana Parishad alleged that a section of government employees were engaged in rigging at Bornijora booth in the Lok Sabha polls which is a fit case for CBI probe.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Sunday, party president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said that these incidents have turned the entire poll process into a farce.Mahanta further opposed the arrest of the person who photographed the entire incident in his camera at the polling station when a VDP member allegedly pressed the EVM buttons on behalf of a section of voters.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday promised all possible steps to preserve the remains of historic building a day after it was ravaged by fire in Guwahati. Visiting the debris of the site in Fancy Bazar, Gogoi ordered a high level probe to ascertain the cause of the fire that gutted nearly 20 houses on Sunday wee hours. Talking to the reporters, the chief minister said that the enquiry would cover the alleged delay in the arrival of fire brigades into the spot.
Guwahati has escaped a huge explosion that could have resulted in large scale death and destruction when security forces seized a huge quantity of explosive in Paltanbazar.The explosives weighing over 50 KG were intercepted from the possession of a person during a search operation of railway security forces in Paltabazar station on Sunday. Acting on a tip off, GRPF personnel conducted a search operation at the Railway station where they seized the explosives from the possession of a person who is believed to have hailed from Darjeeling.Investigation is going on.
At least 7 people were killed and nine others have been critically injured when a truck carrying them slipped into a deep gorge in Bajali district on Sunday.The incident took place early in the morning at Saderi on the National Highway No 152 when the truck was on its way from Pathsala to Dumuni .It slipped into the gorge after the driver lost control over the truck. Local residents extricated the bodies and rushed 5 persons to the Barpeta Medical College Hospital while 6 others to a local hospital in Bajali.One person died on the spot while five others were rushed to the hospital where they succumbed to their injuries. All the injured have been battling for life.
Properties worth crores of rupees along with a 108 year old building reduced to ashes when a devastating fire broke out in Guwahati on Sunday.The fire broke at Lakhtokia area in Fancybazar in the wee hours where as many as 70 houses were gutted.The fire was believed to have originated from electric short circuit which later engulfed many houses within a short period of four hours.The burst of domestic LPG cylinders further compounded the problem. A 108 year old building where former President Fakaruddin Ali Ahmed housed for many decades also gutted in the fire.Over ten fire tenders took over four hours to bring the situation under control. The real extent of damage is yet to be ascertained....
Amid tight security, repolling is underway in altogether 15 booths covering four Lok Sabha constituency on Sunday.Voters in large number are waiting to vote in the polling booths which began at 7 in the morning.Long queues of voters were seen in a section of polling booths even from 6 in the morning.The booths include three in Guwahati, nine in Kokrajhar and two in Nagaon and one in Mongoldoi constituency where polling was disrupted because of EVM malfunctioning.Guwahati polling booths include No 1 Hengrabari LP School, No 180 Ganeshpara School and Ramchiary School under West Guwahati Assembly segment.The repolling will continue till 5 in the evening.
The Election Commission will conduct repolling in Bornijora polling booth after it confirmed vote rigging on Thursday.Official sources in Guwahati said that repolling would take place from 7 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon in the booth under the Jalukbari assembly segment.The commission ordered repolling after the chief election officer apprised it of rigging by a local VDP member who pressed the EVM buttons on behalf of a few voters in full view of the presiding and polling officers.BJP and AGP separately demanded repolling in the booth alleging massive rigging on Thursday.
A day after the rigging expose at the Bornijora polling booth, a BJP delegation alleged the role of a powerful minister.A BJP delegation including the Guwahati candidate Bijoy Chakrabarty alleged before the chief election officer that a power minister in the Tarun Gogoi cabinet is behind the entire exercise.Later talking to reporters the BJP leaders said that the voters are quite disappointed with these incidents where an unauthorized VDP member was allowed to press the EVM button on behalf of a section of voters.
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