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.
Outgoing AJYCP president Manoj Baruah has joined BJP on Sunday after he was assured of ticket to contest from Pattacharkuchi in Barpeta district in the next assembly polls.Baruah joined the party before state unit president Siddharth Bhattacharya at a brief function organizaed at the party headquarters in Guwahati on Sunday.Several senior party leaders attended the function who hope that his joining would boost the morale of the party.
The Kamatapur Liberation Organization has made it plain and simple that Jiban Singha is still alive three days after the army claimed to have killed the outfit’s chairman at a sytrike in Myanmar. KLO told a section of media on Saturday night that Jivan is keeping fine and that army have been spreading lies to confuse the people. KLO made its position clear hours after ULFA confirmed that the KLO chief was not dead as it wa claimed by army. Notably, army on Friday claimed to have killed the KLO chief at a strike inside the soil of Myanmar along with several other insurgent leaders.
Yet another student leader is preparing to join politics. He is none other than Aswini Chetia. The president of All Tai Ahome Students Union is all set to join Congress shortly. APCC sources told Assam Times that Chetia is in constant touch with party president Anjan Dutta. Sources confirmed that Chetia will seek to contest from Sivasagar in the assembly polls early next year.Chetia’s preparation to join the ruling party assumes significance after a circle of AASU and AJYCP leaders are joining BJP.
The flood situation threatens to take further grim turn if the weathermen are to be believed. Meteorological centre in Guwahati has predicted more rainfall in the state during the next 48 hours. It would further compound the scene in 10 districts. These flood hit districts have received excess rain during the last ten days. Chirang and Goalpara recorded 312 per cent and 243 per cent excess rain respectively.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi reviewed the overall flood scene at a meeting with senior bureaucrats in Dispur on Saturday. Gogoi, who arrived in Guwahati from New Delhi on Friday hunkered down with chief secretary VK Pipersenia along with other senior officers where he asked the officers to expedite relief and rescue in the flood hit areas to mitigate the misery of the flood hit people. Food and civil supply, health department officials apprised the chief minister of the current stock of food and medicines for the flood hit measures.
The death of Jiban Singha is shrouded in confusion on Saturday a day after army claimed to have killed the KLO chief in the strike on the soil of Myanmar.In his e-mail, ULFA-I spokesman Arunodoy Dohotiya said on Saturday that the Jiban is fine and healthy and that army have been resorting to blatant lies. Army on Friday said that KLO chief was killed in strike inside the Myanmar territory along with more than a dozens of insurgents. Army further said that the bodies would be flown to New Delhi for confirmation through DNA test. His family members in Coochbehar are caught in utter confusion in the absence of any confirmation from the government. ...
The overall flood situation has gone from bad to worse following the incessant rains that cripple normal life in the state during the last one week.More and more areas in ten districts have come under the surging waters of the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries during the last 24 hours.Flood waters on Saturday inundated new areas in Barpeta, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Sonitpur districts. Over one lakh people have been reeling under flood in Barpeta district damaging 2,800 hectares of crops.The Brahmaputra is still flowing above the danger mark in Nimatighat in Jorhat and Dhubri where roads, embankments and bridges were washed away.
The authorities have restricted water transport services on the Brahmaputra in Nimatighat and Majuli island because of a rising water level of the mighty river.Official sources told Assam Times that the plying of boats and other vessels after sunset has been banned in other segments of the Brahmaputra.
Flood situation refuses to improve in Sonitpur, Kokrajhar, Tinsukia, Goalpara and Dibrugarh districts on Saturday as the rivers are still flowing above the danger marks.The water levels in Dibang, Lohit, Subansiri and Siang in Arunachal Pradesh have been rising because of excessive rain during the last one week.
Union sports minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday alleged gross misutilization of the minority welfare fund in the state. Addressing a meeting at the District Library in Guwahati, he said that the minority welfare fund has been failing to percolate benefit to the people for whom it was meant. “This is because of gross misappropriation of the fund by the Assam government. I beg to appeal to the people to keep a close watch on the implementation of the minority welfare fund as the Centre has extended the base this time,” he said.BJP minority cell leader Abdul Rashid Ansari was prominent among those who attended the meeting.
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