Too shy to call a spade a spade!
“The evasiveness showed by the Indian and foreign media, so-called intellectuals, leftists and fake human-rights activists, myopic writers, and Bollywood loose cannons over the ISIS-type gruesome beheading of a Kanhaiya Lal in broad daylight, by two fanatics, has intensified anger among the common citizens of this country. Mere passing off the incident of the atrocious beheading of an innocent citizen and generalising it as an ordinary murder is shameful for these votaries of civilized and civil society. Kanhaiya Lal's instant killing made headlines, but only if there was a pact to keep it under the radar. The legacy media chose to not mention “beheading”, limiting themselves to “tailor killed over…” and ‘tailor murdered”.
Kanhaiya Lal's beheading refused to hold the attention of political parties, too. And the media, which follows politics and politicians like the salmon its upriver path, took it as just another piffling murder.
But that is not what happens to death by beheading, carried out by the radicals that is unrelenting as it is final! Then, politics comes into play and the political vultures swoop to gorge from the communal pot.
This time the Congress is in the crosshair, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot could have kept a compassionate appeal, begging the question, shouldn't somebody new take to piloting the crisis-hit state? Congress spokeswomen on a News Channel debate condemned the incident alongside diverting towards the rhetoric of developing hatred in the society.
So, the BJP and Modi have no time for Rajasthan at least not for now. Kanhaiya Lal lost his head to a medieval menace that may or may not have religious sanction. And Gehlot is drawing ire for saying that the “communal atmosphere in the country” is dangerously skewed. Also, he suggested that Modi should find time from his tight global schedule and “talk to the people, what's wrong in that?”
Not even after news that the head-hunters had held out a threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. When it comes to adding states to its bag, the BJP forgets everything except the acquisition.
The beheading of Kanhaiya Lal by the two extremists Riyaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad could have been prevented if the police in Udaipur hadn't turned into peacemakers instead of using the full force of the law on the law-breakers. After the two ‘Believers' video that they were going to ‘sar kalam..Kanhaiya Lal' surfaced, the men in uniform should have understood that this was for real!
The sub-inspector arranged a meeting and the two sides shook hands. The SI retired to his office thinking his work had been done. But true to the script, the faithful delivered on their threat, and once again the ultimatum held true to its message — ‘Sar kalam'. ‘Sar tan se juda' is a peculiarity exclusive to some elements of the believers — an age-old ritual built into the system, which always worked.
However, this beheading is cataclysmic. It has added to the building distrust between the Hindus and Muslims. If a beheading can take place in broad daylight, in a public square, so to speak, it can happen anywhere. Kanhaiya Lal's beheading is proof that we're being held ransom by a fundament that will never change.
The distrust will increase. You cannot have a country with one half always wary of the other half. There is merit in Gehlot's demand that Modi gets off his high horse and “talk to the people”, what's wrong with that, India is Modi's country, too?
BJP spokespersons accused the Congress Governments of appeasement and cite this as a reason for emboldening such fanatic elements in the community. Chances of Hindu-Muslim cacophony will hit the high notes all over again, especially in Rajasthan.”
