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.
Dipankar Nath and Lurinjyoti Gogoi assumed office as AASU president and general secretery respectively on Thursday. The duo took oath at a function organized at the Swahid Nyash Bhawan where out going adviser Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya , president SP Roy and general secretary Tapan Gogoi hope that the new leadership would be able to safeguard the interest of the people.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has arrived in Guwahati on Thursday after cutting short his Australia visit. Immediately after landing in the capital, Gogoi met senior officers and reviewed relief and rescue of the people of Assam in the quake-hit Nepal . He left for Australia a day after a massive tremor ravaged the Himalaya kingdom.
Surface communication remains totally disrupted across the state on Thursday following the 12 hour chakka bandh in protest against the proposed road safety bill. Only the government run buses are running on the road causing inconvenience of the common people.
A quake survivor is battling for life at AIIMS after he was shifted to Delhi on Wednesday. Abhijit Barua who was on visit to Nepal sustained serious injury in the massive tremor on Saturday was initially rushed to a local hospital in Kathmandu was flown to AÍIMS on Wednesday where he was taken to the country's premier hospital for better treatment.
Yet another quake survivor family is arriving in Guwahati on Thursday. Arjun Upadhyay and his family members arrived in Delhi on Wednesday by an IAF plane. " We are fine and ready to leave to Guwahati on Thursday," they told Assam Times.
In yet another clash that sends shock and anger, miscreants killed a local youth in Kamrup on Thursday. The clash took place at Bihdiya in Chaygaon at a bihu function in the wee hours where Tirth Das received grave injury to be shifted to GMCH where he died. Police, meanwhile, held local youth Ranjit Kalita in this connection. Talking to Assam Times, the local residents blamed liquor consumption for the incident.
Five more people from Assam who escaped death in Nepal are arriving Guwahati on Thursday. All these people who sustained injury in Nepal were flown to Delhi three days are all set to come to Guwahati on Thursday.
There is no trace of two people from Assam who went missing during the massive tremor in Nepal on Saturday. "We have not been able to find out the duo. But we are still trying to ascertain their whereabouts," said an officer who deals with the calamity.
The bodies of six women who died in Nepal tremor were cremated in Guwahati on Wednesday. People thronged in thousands at their houses in Guwahati when the bodies arrived in the morning a day after these bodies reached Delhi. After paying last respect, the bodies were taken to the Navagraha to be cremated.
The Dispur Hospital has organized another Hepatitis B vaccination camp for scribes at Guwahati Press Club on 5 May 2015. The city based media persons, who had already taken the first dose of Hepatitis B vaccine on 5 April last, are being requested to attend the next vaccination camp for second (and final) dose of Hepatitis B vaccine without fail.Caused by the hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis B is an infectious disease that affects the human liver. It can cause both acute and chronic infections. Shockingly many people may have no symptom during the initial infection. The virus is transmitted by exposure to infectious blood or body fluids. The infection has been preventable by vaccination...
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