How long would the mob lynching continue? Will it be curbed finally?

The issue of mob lynchings in the name of cow vigilantism in particular has gained gigantic proportion in the country with parliament witnessing uproarious scenes on Monday and the opposition benches up on their toes castigating the government at the centre for not doing anything credible to end this dreaded menace.

The latest case of the mob lynching of a muslim men in Alwar and the police directly or indirectly helping them has exploded the issue beyond exceptation with the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his party leaders putting  the entire blame on the state and central governments ruled by the BJP led NDA.

While the Nehru Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi while commenting on increasing lynchings in the country said: This is Modi’s brutal India where humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed and left to die, the union minister Piyush Goyal accused Congress and Rahul Gandhi countering his charges,  saying that you ( Rahul) divide the society for electoral gains and then shed crocadile tears. He added: enough is enough.You are the merchant of hate.

It may be recalled that after the BJP led NDA government  came to power at the centre in 2014, there had been 37 deaths due to mob lynching in the name of cow vigilantism and in some cases under the guise of child lifting rumour mongerings and provocations. Out of these 37 killings 29 are from the minority community.

The role of the social media like whatsapp, facebook and twitter etc can’t be ruled out in spreading the fake, false and provocative rumours in the country. What is also anguishing is the fact that majority of the lynchings had occured in the BJP ruled states like Rajasthan, UP, Haryana, Tripura, Maharashtra and Jharkhand including Tamilnadu etc ruled by AIADMK.

In the meanwhile after the uproar by the Congress and other non BJP opposition in the Lok Sabha including the serious stand taken by the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and also on the recent directives of the apex court on the petition of the grand son of Mahatma Gandhi, namely Tushar Gandhi, the union government has finally taken a serious notice on the most important issue of mob lynching and formed a GOM ( group of ministers body) to effectively deal with the rising incidents of mob lynching in the country.

On the other hand the Rajasthan inquiry committe constituted by the state government has also confirmed that there were serious lapses on the part of the state police in Alwar in (not) taking the grievously injured cow smuggler to the hospital in time after he was brutally attacked and thrashed by cow vigilantes , an issue of huge concern that has triggered a political slugfest between the Congress and the Bhartiya Janata Party.

The badly beaten victim later on succumbed to his grievous injuries for not being administered timely and approriate medical treatment due to the serious lapses on the part of the police. There are also allegations that the victim was was later on beaten by the police as well.

The GOM which consists of five union ministers viz. Sushma Swaraj, Raj Nath Singh, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nitin Gadkari and Thawar Chand Gehlot has also formed a high level committee under the home secretary Rajiv Gauba which has been directed to submit its detailed report of the Alwar incident to the Group of Ministers at the earliest.

However, despite all these corrective steps being initiated by the union government the Congress party is blaming the Bhartiya Janata Party of planning to polarise the majority community votes in view of the incoming elections in three state and the general elections of 2019.

They are questioning as to why has the government not acted in time to form the GOM despite so much of outrage on lynchings and allowed the situation to go out of hand leading to 37 deaths. Had the central and state government acted in time the situation could have been averted and lynchings stopped subsequently the Congress leaders say. What’s your take friends?