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.
Policemen are again on maximum alert. Security has been beefed up acting on the inputs that ULFA is trying to strike in the run up to the Republic Day.This was what IGP RM Singh said on Tuesday a day after police nabbed a hardcore ULFA rebel in Nagaon. He said that the revelation came up during interrogation of the ULFA rebel who was dispatched by Dristi Rajkhowa to the district to carry out subversive activities in Guwahati.
NIA director general Sharad Kumar is on a three days stock taking visit to the state amid the probe into the recent violence that left 81 dead on Kokrajhar and Sonitpur. Kumar on Tuesday met Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Director General of Police (DGP) Khagen Sarma, Chief Secretary Jitesh Khosla and other officials to discuss the investigation.The NIA chief is scheduled to visit the violence-affected areas in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts on Wednesday.
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Come April. A new cancer hospital will start functioning at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital. The hospital would be ready by March and that 90 per cent work of the new cancer hospital on the GMCH premises was complete.Health minister Dr Nazrul Islam said that it would help the B Barooah Cancer Institute reduce the increasing load of patients. The health and family welfare minister said it on Monday when he inaugurated a dual head gamma camera machine with SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) at B. Borooah Cancer Institute.
NIA director general Sharad Kumar is on a 3 days visit to Guwahati to review the probe into the recent Adivasi carnage in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts.Kumar is scheduled to meet the NIA officials who have been probing the cases today. Then he will meet the chief secretary and DGP to discuss the probe. On Wednesday and Thursday, Kumar is expected to visit the massacres sites to assess the situation. NIA has been probing 4 cases.
Assam Congress has ruled out further patch up with BPF. But the ruling party will forge alliance with other secular parties if need be. This was what party president Anjan Dutta told reporter in Guwahati on Monday.Dutta said that the decision came from the party high command a few months before the BTC elections. He said that there was no bar for the party to join hands with any other "secular" force for the election. He said the party is all prepared to go it alone in the BTC elections alone, but it may form an alliance if necessary. According to Dutta, many BPF leaders have expressed willingness to join Congress before the BTC polls
Police claimed to have nabbed two suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants along the West Bengal -Assam border on Monday. The militants were nabbed from Shamuktala under the Shamuktala police station in Alipurduar district of West Bengal on Monday wee hours.Identified as Gangaprasad Basumata and Sagid Narjinari from Kolkrajhar district, they would be produced before court on Monday. A huge quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered from them.
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