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 committee of citizens set up to resolve the hawker-agent conflict in Guwahati failed to resolve the crisis on Saturday.Presided over by veteran journalist DN Chakravartty, the meeting failed to pull the agents who have been denying to talk to the hawkers again a day after they called the agitation an illegal.
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Tension is simmering again in Bihali in Sonitpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh after police recovered four bodies inside the forest area on Saturday.All the four persons have been remaining traceless since the Chauldhuwa episode where Arunachal Pradesh miscreants shoot dead 11 local villagers in January 29.They were believed to have been shot dead recently a more than a month before they were held in captivity. The bodies were identified as Burha Teron, Bishoy Teron, Maneswar Munda and Kancha.
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KMSS threatens to disrupt Rahul Gandhi’s visit on Tuesday if the government fails to give land pattas for the landless lot.The peasant body on Saturday said that despite assurance, Dispur is playing a delaying tactic which would be tolerated.The organization has already written to the Congress vice president saying that they are all prepared to take on the Tarun Gogoi government on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the Bangladeshi immigrants will have to quit India if BJP government is voted to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Addressing a huge rally in Silchar, Modi said that it’s the end of the road for Congress and that the people will wipe out the ruling party in near future.He said that he would fulfill the dreams within 60 months whatever the Congress did not in 60 years.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday pledged to protect Arunachal Pradesh if the BJP-led government is restored at the Centre.In his address at the huge rally in Pasighat, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate said that New Delhi is bound to protect the frontier state amid repeated threat by China. He further said that any Chinse aggression move must be resisted.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday vowed to change the face of the north east if BJP is voted to power this time.Addressing a huge rally in Pasighat, Modi said that development has no option and that’s why, development would be the montra for 2014 Lok Sabha polls for BJP.Modi said that Arunachal Pradesh has sacrifice a lot. But time and again it has been receiving raw deal decades after decades.Iterating the relation between Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh, the Gujarat Chief Minister said that if the sun rises in Arunachal Pradesh then it sets in Gujarat.
The Assam Government on Saturday announced a set of new industrial policy.Addressing a press conference in Dispur, industry minister Pradyut Bordoloi said that the policy would thrust small scale industries.He further said that industries on nonagricultural plots would be encouraged. But in the same breath, Bordoloi said that agricultural plots won’t be utilized for any industrial purpose.
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