Parliament may remain hectic on Monday on Alwar lynching ?

The issue of one more lynching in the Alwar district of Rajasthan by the supposed activists of Shiv Sena ruled by the Bhartiya Janata Party has once again given an opportunity to the Congress party and the entire non BJP opposition in Parliament to raise the issue on Monday after being defeated in the no confidence motion tabled by the Telegu Desam Party.

The prime minister who spoke for about one and a half hour extempore ridiculing the Congress president and highlighting his government’s achievements threadbare and eloquently, however not spoke a single word on lynching despite the unambiguous fact that even the apex court of the country has taken an extremely serious view of this increasing menace of mob lynching directing the government to devise a new law to deal with the perpetrators most stringently in order to stop it forthwith.

It rally sounds shocking that the prime minister while speaking on every issue of significance, not forgetting to ridicule the opposition and the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi calling him childish and irresponsible, himself skips this most burning issue that concerns’ peoples’ lives and carries special significance after the country’s top court taking cognisance of the matter.

Everybody was expecting that the prime minister Narendra Modi would clarify his stand on this most pivotal issue and assure the people of the country of the new law it intends to launch to end this menace of lynching once for all which has till now claimed more about 27 precious lives of the innocents and spread an environment of hate, hatred and animosity amongst various sections of the society thus targetting people of a particular community in the name of cow vigilantism, alleged child lifting and eating habits of a particular sect as enumerated by the apex court while delievering its judgement against the petition filed by the grt grandson of Mahtma Gandhi, Tushar Gandhi.

Even the union home minister Rajnath Singh has assured the countrymen of dealing with such lynching incidents extremely seriously and punishing the culprits under the strictest sections of the law. He had even instructed the state governments and the police chiefs of various states to view such instances in all seriousness and ensure that don’t reoccur again but despite so much of hullaballoo and the apex court’s issuance of directives to the central and state governments to appoint nodal officers to avoid such lynchings in future there seems to be no terror of the law and the law enforcing agencies in the country.

The lynching of a person of a minority community in Alwar yesterday by sort of two cow vigilants supposed to be the Shiv sena activists unambiguously speaks of the fact that many such killings would continue in future till a new law with capital punishment or something likewise is not ratified by both houses of parliament.

Such lynchings in the name of religious provocation, child lifting or cow vigilantism etc needs to be curbed forthwith as India is a country with diverse cultures, religions, communities, castes and creed. Vitiation of the communal fabric or environment of the country under the guise of such narrow and squeezed considerations resulting in the deaths of the innocents with the alleged intent to polarise the society to gain political dividends is the hugest sin which has long term serious implications.

What is more worrisome is the fact that majority of the lynching cases have occured in the states ruled by the saffron party like Rajasthan, UP, Jharkhand , MP, Maharashtra and one in Kerala ruled by the left.

It would be in the larger interest of the country and humanity that the parliament discusses this issue threadbare in the incoming parliament session across party lines and the government readily acedes to the Apex court’s directives to frame a new law on lynchings in order to send across a strong message of deterrent to the goons n criminal elements who under various pretexts try to perpetrate violence and lynch innocents for no fault of theirs. What’s your take friends?