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.
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Union home minister Rajnath Singh would be on a stock taking to the flood hit areas of Goalpara and Kamrup district along with South Garo hills in Meghalaya on October 1.The flood waters in these two districts continue to recede following the halt of rains during the last couple of days. Singh has already sent Kiren Rijiju who wrapped up his aerial survey on Saturday afternoon.The Centre had already provided some immediate relief in the form of ex gratia to the next of kin of those who have died in the floods. The next of kin of every person who died in the floods would get Rs 3.5 lakh each.
Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju gives hint of sufficient fund for to help the state get rid of flood fury and the aftermath. After his survey in Goalpara on Saturday, Rijiju told reporters that the Centre has no dearth of funds and support to tackle the flood menace. “Let me assure that there will be no dearth of central funds and support to tackle the situation,” Rijiju told reporters in Goalpara. Accompanied by Guwahati MP Bijoya Chakravarty, the Union minister flew over Goalpara, Dhubri and Kamrup districts along with North Garo Hills and South Garo Hills districts of Meghalaya.
The arrest of Jaiklong Brahma has reached the court with Gauhati High Court issuing notices to the Centre, State Government, District Magistrate, Kokrajhar, and Superintendent of Police questioning the legality and validity of the TV journalist’s arrest under the National Security Act (NSA).In an order, the court has asked for the reply within October 15.Advocates Bijon Mahajan and Arshad Choudhury appeared for the Kokrajhar-based journalist who was arrested on September 3 for allegedly hobnobbing with NDFB(S) and feeding the outfit with information.
Finally Narendra Modi has announced compensation for the flood victims. Apart from condoling the loss of lives in the flood fury, the prime minister sanctioned ex-gratia relief of Rs.2 lakh to the next of kin of the deceased.Before leaving for US, the prime minister has sanctioned an ex-gratia of Rs.2 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs.50,000 each to the seriously injured persons from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund.
The Centre is for Rs 1,000 crore fund to help Assam tide over the flood fury and to manage the post flood situation. This was what Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal said a day after Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi demanded. Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Friday, the Union minister of state for sports the Centre has no dearth of fund for flood relief and to build damaged infrastructure. He said, "we have asked the state government for a report on the loss of human lives, livestock, houses and crops. We have full faith in Tarun Gogoi that he will send a detailed report to the Centre,". "We are not indulging in politics. It is not the time for that. This is the time to help," Sonowal said.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi made an aerial survey in Goalpara and Kamrup(rural) district on Friday. But he could not land in the flood relief camps because of the inclement weather.He had to wrap up his survey within 45 minutes. The chief minister has asked the authorities to ensure speedy relief and rescue operation in the worst-hit Goalpara and Kamrup(rural) district.The recurrence of incessant rains is likely to worsen the flood waters on Friday afternoon.
The flood toll has gone up to 38 with the recovery of two more bodies on Friday twelve hours after four bodies were recovered in Goalpara.Both the bodies were fished out on Friday one each in Goalpara and Kamrup(rural). NDRF and SDRF have recovered two more bodies in Krishnai and Kukurkata areas of the worst-hit Goalpara district. This is apart from the recovery of one body each from Tinsukia district and Guwahati which falls in Kamrup Metro district.Official sources confirmed that 36 people lost their lives and that the toll is likely to go up.
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There is sign of marginal let-up in the overall flood scene on Friday. The flood waters start receding trend in the worst hit areas of Goalpara and Kamrup Districts. The waterlevels of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries across the state are also receding marginally.In a bid to speed up dispatch relief materials, the North East Frontier Railway is running two special trains till September 30 between New Bongaigaon - Goalpara and Guwahati to Chayygaon.The administration has set up 88 temporary relief camps in Goalpara District and 54 in Kamrup District to accommodate over 2 lakh people. But the road communication between Guwahati and Goalpara, however, remains cut off.
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