NEGLECTED IN DEATH: CONG SHOWS ITS FASCIST COLOUR

It is great relief to learn that the rescue operation in the disaster hit Uttarakhand is over. All the survivors have been rescued, thanks to our Army and Air Force Jawans and Officers. But there are reports that uncounted number of people who died in the tragedy still lay neglected and buried in the debris. The news would make even a healthy and strong person sick.

After the tragedy struck the hills of Uttarakhand, the Congress Government in Dehradun was looking for people with expertise to extricate the bodies of dead from debris. It finally located a charitable organization in Surat, Gujrat. The organization had worked in Bhuj after the earthquake and did a commendable work in searching the dead.

According to a report from Dehradun, a 14 member team of the Surat based Ekta Trust arrived in the state capital only to face humiliation. Some sick minded Congress politicians advised the government not to take the services of the trust from Gujarat – the state of Narendra Modi. Will someone has to remind the Congress that Gujarat is not the fiefdom or jagir of Modi, it a state of the union.

The fourteen member team comprised of people drawn from all religions. They were ready to search the bodies, extricate and do the final rites according to the religion of the dead people. The Gujrat Trust also said that they would render the service without charging a single rupee. But the government officials outright denied that they had approached the trust for the rescue work. Whereas the fact remains that the trust had received written communication from Dehradun. The government also arranged for their stay in Dehradun. The Chairman of the Trust is one Abdul Rahman who has said in a statement that despite the offer to render free service, the state government officials made its team members to loiter from one office to another for 3- 4 days and were humiliated. The Trust had also worked in Chennai after the tsunami had hit the coast.

On June 29 when the team arrived at the airport in Dehradun fully equipped to carry out the operations, it was asked to go back. But the team members stayed in Dehradun hoping that they would be able to do their work in search operation of the dead people, but it was in vain.

This incident which was not widely reported by the media except in some newspapers throws some basic questions that the Congress is obliged to answer to the nation. No one expect or ask the Congress to accord the BJP or for that matter Narendra Modi a red carpet treatment. But why the Congressmen should stop people from showing some respect to the dead?

Never before such incident has happened in India in my memory! During Satyagrah Andolan, Mahatma Gandhi had appealed to the people to boycott British goods. Will the Congress and the governments led by it at the Centre and in the states ask people to boycott anything and everything from Gujarat? If that be the case, then Congressmen should stop buying cars manufactured in Gujrat. Rich Congress politicians and Ministers who have fancy for diamonds from Surat should not pick up the glittering precious gem from Surat.

This is nothing but reflection of a sick mind and sick politics that the Congress Party today stands for. Political opposition is one thing but showing extreme hatred for a political opponent smacks of totalitarian brand of politics- the likes of Hitler and Mussolini. People and political parties opposed to the BJP in general and Narendra Modi in Particular often say that the BJP and Modi are authoritarian in approach and that they are undemocratic. After the Dehradun incident of turning away the rescue team from Surat just because it came from Gujarat, it goes without saying that the Congress Party and its leaders have the streak of fascism with imprints of Hitler and Mussolini embedded in them!

~R. K. Sinha