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.
Additional chief secretary Subhash Chandra Das will probe the Rongajan firing incident that left 22 civilians and seven police personnel injured on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference in Dispur on Wednesday, Gogoi condemned the police action against protesters at Rangajan area and said the government will order an inquiry.
Finally the Centre steps in to defuse the Assam-Nagaland border tension. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked home ministry to submit a report on the entire situation a week after Naga miscreants killed at least 14 local residents of Uriamghat. But the Centre would only assist the state government to contain the violence. The Centre has already rushed around 1,000 additional paramilitary personnel for deployment along the Assam-Nagaland border. //
The heat of Assam-Nagaland border violence seems to have touched Dispur. KMSS protestors on Wednesday staged dharna out the assembly demanding steps to defuse the escalating tension along the inter state border. KMSS leaders said that the Gogoi government has been failing to firmly deal with the situation. Speaker Pranab Gogoi appealed to the protestors to remain calm. He assured them of steps to efficiently deal with the situation where at least 14 local residents of Uriamghat were killed in Naga miscreants.
The problem is grave. Present is tense while the future is indefinite. Yes, we are talking of the flood problem that ravages the state every year.The loss is an astronomical Rs 200 crore in average per year. This is what the figure state Economic Survey.According to its recent report, the perennial problem submerges 40 per cent of the state’s total land. The extent of loss rose to the tune of Rs 500 crore in 1998.During 2004, the figure went up to Rs 771 crore. The survey puts 31,500 sq km area as flood-prone quoting the assessment of the Rastriya Barh Ayog which is about 39.58 per cent of the total land area of Assam.According to the official records, the average annual area affected...
Amid the simmering border flare up, Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is all set to hold a fence-mending talks with his Nagaland counterpart on Thursday. Both the chief ministers are scheduled to meet in Dispur at 11 in the morning where the border violence would figure for an amicable solution. Gogoi has been blaming it all on Nagaland for the volatile situation in Golaghat district for the last couple of days. He further has asked for prime minister Narendra Modi’s direct intervention for an amicable settlement of the decade old problem.
The Assam-Nagaland border erupted in violence not because of the group clash. It’s a handiwork of NSCN(M) if the reliable sources are to be believed. According to sources available with Assam Times a circle of the insurgents is involved in the border flare up where at least 14 local residents of Uriamghat area were killed and over 50 houses were torched. The Centre is believed to received the input. But it is not in a position to convey it to the pro talk militant outfit in the absence of the interlocutor. /
Extra security forces have arrived in Uriamghat along the Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district.Altogether nine Central Reserve Police Force posts have been handling the situation. Now these new forces have increased the strength.Immediately after the arrival of the new forces, the authorities cleared the blockade on the National Highway 39 leading to Nagaland on Tuesday.The Centre rushed the additional forces after Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had sought the Centre’s intervention for restoration of peace in the Uriamghat area of Golaghat.
The flood situation in Nagaon and Morigaon turns critical on Tuesday. Over 150 villages have come under the surging waters of the Brahmaputra affecting around one lakh people. The water submerged vast tracts of human habitation and farm land with standing crops at Bhuragaon and Mayong revenue circles of Morigaon. Erosion has added to the woes. Erosion seems to have taken serious turn at the main dyke of Brahmaputra at Bhuragaon point. It threatens to submerge the revenue circle office, police station, Bhuragaon college and the main market there. /
The flood waters have brought brimful misery to the birds and animals in the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. Talking to Assam Times, Park officials said that nearly per cent of the park has comes now under the surging waters. These have forced the rhinos and other wild animals there to take shelter on highlands. The forest guards are on a round the clock vigil to prevent the poachers to strike.
Amid an escalating tension along the Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district the All Tai Ahom Students Union activists in Amguri burnt the effigy of Union home minister Rajnath Singh for not settling the border row. Hundreds of ATASU activists thronged the Amguri town on Tuesday and shouted slogans against the Centre for not doing enough to solve the decade old border row. The protest assumed significance a week after the Naga miscreants killed at least 13 people and torched 50 houses in Uriamghat area in Golaghat district bordering Nagaland.
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