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.
Debananda Konwar is all set to put in his papers as Tripura Governor on Saturday to again enter into the state politics in the ruling Congress. The vetern Congressman and former Assam minister is likely to tender his resignation before President Pranab Mukherjee in view of the Centre’s move to replace the governors appointed by the erstwhile UPA government. Konwar was appointed as governor of Bihar a couple of years back and last year he was transferred to Tripura in the same capacity. According to sources, Konwar who has a close assciation with Sonia Gandhi is likley to join politics again where Congress is enjoying absolute majority.
The Assam Public Service Commission has called off the combined competitive examination (mains) slated for Saturday to select the candidates for ACS, APS and allied services, a day after the commission mired in controversy over the alleged leak of question papers. The decision was taken after commission’s chairman SK Paul called on Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in the afternoon. According to the commission, the new schedule would soon be announced.
New Delhi reiterates its efforts to bring Anup Chetia back to boost the peace process with ULFA. During her visit to Dhaka, minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj raised the issue with the Bangladesh Government on Friday. She stressed the need to get the ULFA’s founder general secretary extradited at an earlier date. If the talks are successful, then Chetia would soon be able to come back to his motherland .
Four persons lost their lives in shocking electrocution in Guwahati when the city was reeling in rainwaters on Friday. The first shocking death took place in Rajgarh area where an aged person was killed in electrocution. The second incident was further shocking where two persons died in Dwarokanagar near in the afternoon. Apart from these three incidents of electrocution, yet another person met watery grave on Friday. He was believed to have been washed away by the Bharalu river which is flowing dangerously following the incessant rains during the last couple of days.
The Guwahati landslide toll has gone up to 4 with yet another person succumbed to injuries in the afternoon. The injured was rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital on Thursday after she was injured when a huge wall slipped into her house atop Narkashur hills. Three of a family died and another seriously injured when a wall collapsed on a houses where they lived. The incident took place on Thursday midnight in Bhangagarh area where three persons were killed on the spot. The injured person was rushed to the GMCH to be succumbed to injuries in the afternoon. Incidents of landslide have been reported in Chandmari, Koinadhara and Hengrabari where several houses have been collapsed.
Three people of a family died and another seriously injured in Guwahati when a wall collpased on a houses where they lived in due to the incessant rains that lashed the city on Thursday. The incident took place on Thursday midnight in Bhangagarh area where three persons were killed on the spot. The injured person was rushed to the GMCH. Incidents of landslide have been reported in Chandmari, Koinadhara and Hengrabari where several houses have been collapsed.
Normal life in Guwahati has come to a grinding halt because of massive water logging hours after heavy downpour lashed the city on Friday. Many parts of the city has come under the rainwaters disrupting normal life from the morning. A huge portion of the GS Road RG Baruah Road have been submerged making it difficult for the vehicles to ply on the roads. Rain waters have further submerged many houses in Chanmari, Lachitnagar, Nabin Nagar, Anil Nagar, Zoo Road, Rupnagar areas where the residents find it difficult to remain inside their houses. The massive waterlogging hs resulted in a huge traffic snarl in the entire city from Friday morning and if the rain continues the situation...
Incessant rains in Guwahati seems to have wreaked havoc in Dispur where rainwaters have submerged a few MLA quarters on Friday morning. A few quarters in the MLA hostel have come under the rainwaters on Thursday midnight a hour after the heavy downpour. Parts of Hengrabari, Dwarakanagar, Beltola and Basistha also have been submerged in the downpour disrupting the normal transport services.
A section of Congress legislators is happy with BPF’s decision to severe ties with the ruling party. Talking to Assam Times, sources said that the party which have absolute majorityhas really no room for the coalition partners in the council of ministers. The space vacated by the BPF minister and parliamentaries woul help Chief minister Tarun Gogoi accomodate Congress legislators at address the growing dissidence in the CLP. BPF anounced the decsion on Thursday after the executive meeting in Kokrajhar alleging that the Congress has done precious little for the BTAD areas.
Transport minister Chandan Brahma along with two parliamentary secretaries from the Bodoland Peoples’ Front are quitting on Friday a day after the ruling Congress severed its ties with the Bodo party. BPF anounced the decsion on Thursday after the executive meeting in Kokrajhar alleging that the Congress has done precious little for the BTAD areas. Congress sources told Assam Times that they are happy with the development and that the ongoing development suggests a clear cut understanding between BPF and BJP.
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