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.
All India Patriotic Forum’s Assam unit yesterday paid rich tribute to former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in a function held at Guwahati Press Club, where distinguished individuals and journalists rubbed their shoulders. The press members also joined in a chorus. Some of them also recited poems of the great scientist and patriot.Presided over by patriotic forum president Rupam Barua, the meeting was attended by senior journalist Dhirendranath Chakrabarty, social activist Col Manoranjan Goswami (Retd), former legislator Ahay Dutta, engineers Subhash Goswami, Triptikona Majumder with Ranen Kumar Goswami, Mukul Kalita, Sabita Lahkar, Nava Thakuria, Pramod Kalita etc.
Veteran singer Dipali Borthakur is stable and responding to treatment. This was what doctors said at the Nemcare Hospital where she is undergoing treatment.She was rushed to the nursing home on Tuesday for treatment. She would have to stay for a few more days for complete recovery.Her fans, many organizations have wished her speedy recovery.The hospital authority has asked the doctors attending on her to ensure best possible treatment for the singer.
After days of will-it-wont-it, the enforcement directorate has registered a case to probe the Louis Berge scam where a foreign consultancy firm allegedly bribed a powerful circle of people to get contract of water supply scheme.A team of enforcement directorate on Wednesday visited the Dispur police station and collected papers and complaints of the multi crore scam that rocks the state.Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has already asked an administrative enquiry by SC Das to find out the prima facie evidence before recommending a CBI probe.
Defying an inclement weather operations are on in search of the Pawans Hans chopper which went missing in Arunachal Pradesh carrying a senior officer on Tuesday.Operation is being concentrated on a dense jungle in the hills state bordering Assam where the chopper carrying Tirap DC Kamalesh Joshi was believed to have crashed in the air on its way to Lungding from Kunsa.
Various parties and organization across the state threatened to hit the street if the Naga peace deal is allowed to disturb the geographical map.Congress, AGP, KMSS, CPI, CPM wondered why the Centre has not held any consultation before striking the peace deal with NSCN(IM).They further urged the Centre to make public the entire peace deal to ally the apprehensions that gripped the people of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.
Hundreds of people in Kaziranga hit the streets on Wednesday demanding withdrawal of eco sensitive zone in the entire are.GMSS president Akhil Gogoi, who joined the huge protest rally said that the people are fully prepared to hit back the government in the upcoming assembly
Amid an escalating controversy over the Victoria suicide, Dispur police grilled a doctor of the International Hospital on Wednesday.Police summoned Dr Sushil Agarwalla and was interrogated for nearly three hours. He was asked to come again if need be.Two security guards were also questioned in this connection. The interrogation assumes significance two days after a section of media revealed that the Meghalaya girl was killed.
The chopper carrying the Tirap Deputy Commissioner is believed to have crashed at a dense jungle in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.Local residents in Deomali near Tirap claimed to have seen something like a crashed chopper in the evening. But operation is not so easy in these hilly and forest terrain. There is no hope of any survivors.Earlier Kalugaon area bordering Arunachal Pradesh told Assam Times that they came to hear a huge sound of some explosion in the air at around 3 in the afternoon. But they failed to fathom it at all.The villagers claimed to have heard it only after the TV channels beamed the breaking news of the chopper missing.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi welcomed the Naga peace accord signed on Monday. In a statement he hoped that it would help the state restore peace and normalcy. But in the same breath he finds it surprising on the secrecy in the Prime Minister’s Office. He said,"the agreement has been reached after prolonged struggle by the Naga group and it will help in restoring peace and prosperity in Nagaland, but it is astonishing why the clauses of the agreement are kept in the dark," Gogoi said in a statement here.
The Arunachal Pradesh chopper carrying the Tirap Deputy Commissioner is believed to have crashed somewhere in the sky on Tuesday.Local residents in Kalugaon area bordering Arunachal Pradesh told Assam Times that they came to hear a huge sound of some explosion in the air at around 3 in the afternoon. But they failed to fathom it at all. The villagers claimed to have heard it only after the TV channels beamed the breaking news of the chopper missing.
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