Terrorist celebrating an early Diwali

Terrorist attacks in prime locations in Delhi mark a beginning of the never ending Diwali celebrations. You may accuse me of being frivolous but if you thing logically we should not expect anything else. Islamic fundamentalist the world over have taken up the war against or non Islamist nations. Though I would say their decision to attack India is a foolish one, but that they have been doing so is reality. Where on the planet will they ever find a country as liberal and as accommodative as India? Barring a few exceptions, ours is a quite secular country. The question then arises why do they resort to such detestable activities? The simple answer to this is ‘Lack of Education’. Our literacy rates are the poorest and we are also home to 1/3rd of the world’s poor. Poverty is also one of the reasons which make people susceptible to the incendiary speeches of the opportunist politicians. Ours is a country of diverse culture, traditions and languages. The social fabric of the country is such that it is highly vulnerable to differences of interests and clashes of opinions. More than 22 % of Indian population is Islamist. Now, India is, as much their motherland as it is for the Hindus or the Christians living here.
Many of our problems are however self created. In a country which has been facing the problem of terrorism for almost 3 decades before the world ever knew about it, by now should have had a strong policy to defend itself against the attacks. However, every time the terrorist strike we find ourselves discussing the same issues and the political parties resorting to blame game. At such crucial juncture the attitude shown by BJP, as the main opposition party is highly despicable. At a time when the country has been facing problems as grave as terrorism, I don’t feel it is the right time to lambast the government for its lackadaisical attitude. Surely the Congress lead UPA has to be blamed for whatever has happened not because it has happened but more so because of the lack of vision to deal with any such problem. It’s not in the hands of the administration to control such activities but if we have a well defined strategy to tackle the problem we can surely reduce the occurrences of such activities. You ask any government official about their anti terrorism policy and the all are dumbfounded. We have all the intelligence agencies and anti terrorism squads but the all are ineffective or rather I would say they are all to counter terrorism but what’s the action plan to curb such tendencies? Previously the politicians were very comfortable putting the blame solely on Pakistan for any act of terror. The present day government doesn’t have the same luxury as home grown terrorism is an established fact.
Another attitude of a few of our politicians perturbs me. These politicians are of the opinion that the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants be granted Indian nationality. The reason, you guessed it right – vote bank politics. Are we a country like Australia with a population of 3 crore, all people well fed that as a matter of philanthropic activity accept all the immigrants from Bangladesh and that too illegal immigrants who should be shot dead according to me if proved to be illegal immigrants. Don’t forget that’s it’s no longer only Pakistan, who is accused of sending terrorists in India we also have some Bangladeshi outfits who work on similar lines.
I would also take this opportunity to ask a problem to your readers. With the fears of global warming coming true it’s not long before the whole of Bangladesh would be under water (expected to happen by 2020). As of date, about 72 Sq kms of area of Bangladesh is supposed to have gone under waters of Bay of Bengal. This will cause an exodus of Bangladeshis form Bangladesh and the pervious West Bengal border provides them a readymade solution. How far that is acceptable to us, is the contention?
It’s high time we wake up and do away with our laggard politicians and ensure a safe and secure future for the posterity.