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.
Akhil Gogoi has appealed to the KMSS leaders and activists not to hold any protest demanding his release.The KMSS president, who is in police custody for the last four days told his advocate that the activists should not take resort to violence in the name of protest against his arrest. Gogoi, along with five of his associates were arrested on Sunday wee hours in connection with the recent self immolation case.
Police again got remand of Akhil Gogoi. But only for one day.The Kamrup chief judicial magistrate extended the police remand by a day in after the KMSS president along with five of his associates were produced before the court on Thursday.Police sought Gogoi and his associates in their remand for five more days for investigation and interrogation in a number of serious cases. But the court allowed the police to take Gogoi in their remand for only a day.After medical check up, Gogoi along with his 5 associates would be produced before the court on Friday.Earlier, they others were produced in the court amid tight security in the court premises four days after they were arrested in connection...
Police have altogether 35 cases pending against Akhil Gogoi.This was what police told the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate on Thursday.CJM court on Sunday asked police to furnish the case dairy details against him when the produced the KMSS president after arresting him in connection with the recent self immolation case.
BJP on Thursday virtually rejected any alliance with AGP for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Talking to reporters in Guwahati, senior party leader SS Ahluwaliah said that the party would field candidates in all 14 Lok Sabha constituencies.It suggests that the party will go it alone in the general polls.Notably, despite stiff resistance from home state unit, a section of AGP leaders has been holding talks with BJP central leadership to forge pre poll alliance with the regional party.
State BJP unit has failed to fine tune the list of the candidates for the Lok Saha polls slated for April 7, 12 and 24.The Opposition party held its election committee meeting in Hotel Rituraj in the morning in presence of S S Ahluwaliah. But the meeting could not proceed in the face of difference within the heavyweights.State president Sarbananda Sonowal is leaving for New Delhi on Thursday to prepare the panel of the candidates in a day or two.The party is expected to announce the list next week.
Internal bickering seems to touched a new low within the poll bound Congress.Assembly Speaker Pranab Gogoi on Thursday called on party president Sonia Gandhi and apprised her of the state of affairs hardly a month ahead of the Lok Sabbha polls.Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Gogoi, whose son is a contender from Jorhat seat, said that he urged her to field competent candidate in the general polls.Significantly, he is understood to have told the high command that all was not well in the ruling party.He urged Gandhi that only the winnable candidates should be fielded in the polls.
In a bid to curb EVM tempering in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission has the state government employees not to deal with the EVMs in the polls.In an order, the country’s poll panel has said that Amtron employees are not entitled to deal with the EVMs.The Commission further has asked BCL and ECIL employees to check the EVMs.The Election Commission has passed the restrictions after it took serious cognizance of AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s complaint that the Amtron emplyees might help the ruling party manipulate the voting machines.
Security forces claimed to have killed a hardcore NDFB-S militant at an encounter in Kokrajhar on Thursday.The incident took place at Aaodang bazar when two armed militants started indiscriminate firing at a joint team of police and army jawans.When retaliated with firing, one of the militants died on the spot while another sustained serious injury.Later police claimed to have seized three greandes, a bike and two mobile phones from the encounter site.
The death of a girl from Manipur inside a hotel room seems to have mired in utter mystery in Guwahati on Thursday.The incident took place at the Hotel Welcome in the Ulubari area where the girl from the Ukhrul district in the north eastern state has been lodging with a boy whom she falsely identified as her brother.But the boy who in fact, hails from Udalguri informed the hotel authorities that the girl was found hanging.The body was sent for post mortem. But the reason of the suicide has yet to be ascertained.
A full grown tigress continues to unleash a reign of terror in Guwahati these days.The epicenter is Kahilipara after three leopards were captured during the last couple of weeks.A police patrol team on Thursday spotted the tigress in Dotalruwa area in the foothills of the Narakashur hill.But the tigress managed to escape from the spot amid deepening darkness. Forest officials arrived in the spot. But they could not trace the tigress. According to the forest official, at least three leopards have been moving in the area in search of food.
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