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.
Yet another tragic accident leaves Raha in utter shock where a school goer was crushed to death by a moving vehicle on Tuesday. The incident took place at 9-30 in the morning at Dighaliati near when a Maruti Alto car bearing No AS-04-C 5077 hit the student from behind on the NH 37.Identified as Bitupan Bordoloi, he was riding on his bicycle to the school when the vehicle hit him from behind. The deceased was a H.S 1st year student of Raha Higher Secendary School.
Assam DGP Khagen Sarma on Tuesday gave hint of an increasing interest of ISIS in the state. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, Sarma said people having internet access have been anxious to know ISIS activities. Sarma said, “Assam is on higher side like Jammu and Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh if the internet search is to be believed. According to him, CID and National Technical Research Organisation have been is monitoring the internet.
NDRF and SDRF personnel have fished out the ill-fated machine boat a day after it capsized in the river Kolohi with overcrowded passengers on Monday.But the SDRF personnel deployed in the search operation have not found even a single body so far. The search operation is expected to end on Tuesday in the absence of any specific missing complaint lodged before the authority. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, DGP Khagen Sama said that the passengers, mostly, might have swam across the river.According to Sarma, “no death of any passenger of the capsized boat has been reported. So, we have presumed that there is no death in the accident.”
Gauhati High Court on October 5 will hear Akhil Gogoi’s PIL alleging anomalies in the civil services examination by the Assam Public Service Commission.A division bench of the court on Monday took serious note on the allegations of disproportionate assets belonging to APSC chairman Rakesh Paul and asked a senior police officer to probe it and file an affidavit accordingly.
Not even a single body has so far been fished out from the river Kolohi after an overcrowded machine boat met with a mishap in the outskirt of Guwahati on Monday.SDFR personnel deployed in the rescue operation will be back in action from Tuesday morning. “Nobody so far formally lodged the complaint of loss before the authority. Without a specific complaint how will be proceed,” a senior SDRF personnel told Assam Times.The incident took place at 1-30 in the afternoon when an overcrowded boat carrying more than 300 people capsized in the river.Local residents told Assam Times that the engine of the boat, carrying the passengers from Chaygaon to Champupara stopped functioning properly as it...
Assam Governor PB Acharya on Monday joined the war of wards against chief minister Tarun Gogoi a week after his alleged political consultation with a BJP delegation triggered no less controversy.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of a function at the Raj Bhawan, Acharya said that he had no political discussion with the BJP delegation that triggers so much controversy. Without naming Gogoi, the governor said somebody is confused with the imminent lose of power.Gogoi along with Congress, AGP have been taking on Acharya for his alleged political consultation with BJP leaders and MPs at the Raj Bhawan.
BJP leader Mrinal Saikia came down heavily on Akhil Gogoi saying that the KMSS leader was addicted. Addressing the reporters in Golaghat on Monday, Saikia called Gogoi a Congress agent. “Akhil is a leader who is addicted to movement and protest. He cannot live a single day without engaging in movement or protest,” said Saikia. The BJP leader filed a PIL alleging presence of Bangladeshi immigrants in Bandardubi, Deochor, Palkhowa areas of Kaziranga.
Congress is all set to form the Tiwa Autonomous Council on October 9.The process to form the council gathered momentum two days after the Gauhati High Court asked the ruling party to form the council.Top leaders of the ruling party met in Dispur on Monday where they decided to form the council on October 9.
A Dibrugarh-based doctors has been remaining traceless for the last couple of days from New Delhi. According to reports, Dr Hemroam Pegu who owns a nursing home in the town has gone missing after he arrived in New Delhi on September 23.As soon as he was understood to have left a hotel in Paharganj Hotel the doctor has been remaining incommunicado.
At least 40 persons have been missing when the machine boat carrying them met with a mishap in the river Kolohi in the outskirt of Guwahati on Monday.The incident took place when the overcrowded boat carrying more than 300 people capsized in the middle of the river after it hit at wooden bridge at around one in the afternoon.Many people managed to swim out while more than 40 others are missing forcing the authority to launch a search operation by SDRF. Details are awaited.
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