TERRORISM UNITES POLITICIANS AND AWAKENS THE NATIONAL SPIRIT

The spate of terrorism in different parts of our country has eroded its image at international level and our vulnerability ever than before. Though India is emerging as an economic giant with its vast market and abundant technical skills and other resources carved its own niche due to the liberalization and intertwining the business with the developed world and competing with them technologically, our inability to tackle the internal conflicts based on religion, caste and parochial chauvinism coupled with the vested interest of political parties created a complex situation to handle and resolve it easily. The regrettable scenario is the maneuvers of various national and regional political parties to capture the power at any cost or with any damn agenda by arousing the inflaming the divide of citizens and miseries of the people forgetting their role to protect and promote the interest of the citizens. Other important virus is the widespread corruption in each and every sphere of our polity and the lack of political will to curtail it with an iron hand by the Government. If we analyse the case studies of high profile politicians, we can see their emergence from rags to riches within a short span of time. All these factors including an ineffective security and demoralized police force have created a bad image about the state of affairs going on in our country and lose the faith of the common man on the leaders in view of their failure to deliver the goods or give justice and ameliorate their genuine grievances.
In view of above lighted details, we have to dwell into the depth of terrorist attacks which are being targeted and promoted due to the long standing animosity with our neighbouring countries and hidden
agenda of certain religious militant groups, ethnic leaders and underground militant political outfits quite often attack the innocent people, police force, sensitive installations without having any regard to humanity with a sole motto of creating terror as a medium to achieve their agenda. The attack on our Parliament in the past and the attack on innocent people in Mumbai and creating terror by holding the inmates of Taj and other prominent hotels as hostages and killing about two hundred people and injuring many with impunity has struck the nation with disbelief and dismay. The operation of about sixty hours to flush out 10 terrorists by police, military and National Security Guard and loss of innocent lives during the operation and also the loss of high ranking and valiant police officials belonged to Ant-Terrorist Squad made our nation has become a national shame for India. Though there were inputs regarding a possible terror plot by some militant groups from Pakistan, our police and defence personnel were unable to take any effective preventive measures due to the failure of coordination and ground level action. This has resulted in the erosion of faith on the leaders of ruling as well as opposition parties to protect the lives of the citizens and prestige of our nation. The spontaneous reaction of the citizens in various parts of the country by organizing candle light ceremonies and protest march to
mourn the death of innocent people decrying the failure of political leadership seems to be considered as a silver line amongst the clouds in Indian politics and a starting point of mass awakening against the
failure of systems and policies adopted by our Government.
The widespread condemnation of terrorist attack in Mumbai by the world community and important nations and their resolve to fight against the terrorism unitedly should be seen as a positive step to plan out
strategies and plans with multi-national and multi-force operation in the coming days. The lone surviving terrorist Kasab Ajmal is the living testimony to tell the world from where they came and whose
hands were behind the attack and if we have to believe the report from investigating agencies, the role of Lashkar-e-Toiba and other organizations operating in Pakistan with the connivance of ISI are
responsible for the dreadful attack. Further, during the course of investigation, many more
plots and the names of militant organizations and their protectors would come up. The stern and aggressive reaction from United States against the attack and the belated assertive support to India for any
decisive action by UK against L-e-T should be considered as a common concern against terrorism.
Let us hope that our politicians will unite against this evil and fight against it with our available resources and might by forgetting and setting aside their agenda of power politics and inculcating a
spirit of nationalism amongst the citizens to be the watch dog of our freedom and existence and also activating the motivating the police, defense and investigative agencies to show their might and thwart the
hawkish design of our enemies!