Sacrifice unparalleled for the true cause of Ganges ! Will our politicians regret and fulfil Swamy’s mission

Mining in and along the banks of river Alaknanda, Bhagirathi and the Ganges and deployment of stone crushers in various districts of Uttarakhand in large numbers have become a huge business causing havoc to the environment and well as to the rivers and what is worse about this whole shabby conspiracy, arbitrary n illegal business minting unaccounted wealth is that the political dispensation of the state and the system is hand in glove with them.

Simultaneously big dams have also played havoc with the forests, ecology, rivers and the people of the himalayan state always favoured by the ruling BJP as well as the Congress as both the state governments have already submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court of India favouring the construction of these huge hydro power products least worried for the existence of the people being threatened, rivers being squeezed and their smooth flow being heavily tempered with, mountains being made hollow and fragile by way of constructing several kilometres of tunnels with unending dynamite explosions, thus making them earth quake prone and also playing with the nature, inviting the massive ecological catastrophe like the one happened in Kedarnath and other parts of Uttarakhad on June 2013 claiming thousands of lives n leading to the collosal loss to properties n state economy.

The recent death of a great environmental saint, a veteran IItian, Phd and crusader against the river pollution and degrading ecology of the Himalayas, 86 year old Professor GD Aggarwal aka Swamy Swarup Sanand after 112 days of fast unto death strike, demanding permanent ban on mining in the Ganges and big dams in Uttarakhand Himalayas having even donated his entire body n all the vital parts to AIIMS for future research, raise many questions about the ignorance, complacense and anti river n environmental attitude of the politicians at the helm and bureaucrats sitting in central ministry of environment and the state who inspite of the state High Court’s order to safeguard the life of the fighting n relentlessly struggling Swamy for the noble cause of saving the pious Ganges have rather preferred to let him die in such an aweful, anguishing and precarious condition and never ever bothered to take any serious notice of his demands.

First he was just the 34 year old Swamy Nigmanand who laid down his precious life after under going 115 days fast and now it was the turn of professor GD Aggrawal aka Swamy Swarup Sanand who was constrained to go for his heavenly abode after 112 days of volunteered hunger.

And now an another enlighted saint cum environmentalist Swamy Gopal Dass of Matri Sadan Ashram Haridwar has followed suit by sitting on fast unto death to carry forward the unfinished task of these two noble saints. Uttarakhand is undoubtedly being led by the vision less leaders and an unholy nexus between politicians, corrupt bureaucrats, contractors, builders n big business houses.

While the liquor and mining mafia is having its fullest say in the 18 year old state the building n land mafia and sharks have literally penetrated into the system.

Uttarakhand is witnessing a huge construction activity right from cities towns to villages with pucca houses, commercial buildings and hotels etc being build in abundance.

People, especially lamd mafia are purchasing large tracts of lands and developing colonies selling it further in square yards.

On the river sides too construction activities are in the full swing including private schools, hospitals n hotels with the intent to earn huge profits.

In these construction activities huge amount of material is required which is extracted from these rivers of Uttarakhand in infinite quantities at pea nuts’ rates after gaining the mining contracts and thereafter crushed in huge stone crushers thus minting huge profits but degrading the ecology of the state and health of the rivers.

The boulders and huge stones crushed by these stone crushers into ash are the main source of stopping water thus avoiding large scale floods in the hills.

Now the government has come up with the all weather roads projects in Uttarakhand leading to huge defforestation. It is said that more than 40 thousands trees are being axed thus affecting the environment of the hills.

The government of india’s over ambitious Namame Ganga project very dear to prime minister Narendra Modi is of worth 20000 crores now, but little seems to have been done to clean the Ganges with the earlier minister Uma Bharati already been out, now leaving the responsibility on Nitin Gadkari.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of highly toxic chemicals, faecal sewers and the poisionous chemicals of hundreds of tenneries situated along the Ganges, especially in Kanpur, including the alleged dead bodies still falling in the so called pious Ganges despite so much of talk of cleaning and rejuvenating the Ganges by the present government and our energetic prime minister have raised several question marks on the earnestness of this project.

But will all this really happen is a big question mark. Had the government, its environment ministry, the state chief minister and above all, the prime minister so concious to clean the Ganges, saved the lives of both the saints viz Swamy Nigmanand and Swamy Swaroop Sanand a message would have definitely gone across through out the country about the seriousness of the CLEAN GANGA MISSION but after their tragic deaths after 115 n 112 days of hunger strikes respectively for the noble cause of the Ganges it sounds absolutely clear that they ( current state and union govt. officials dealing with the issue n ministers etc) are more hypocritical than honest to pursue this objective. What’s your take friends?