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| Hindus, Muslims shared peace on Ayodhya judgement day | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 2: Even as a vast security blanket was on September 28 thrown across the state and the rest of the country as a preventive measure, both Hindus and Muslims shared peace on the Ayodhya case judgement day.
The post-verdict communal harmony has undoubtedly strengthened the hope of the majority countrymen that the Indian democracy and its institutions had attained enough maturity to deal with any vexed situation without letting violence to be used a weapon by the divisive forces.
It was indeed one of the most divisive political issues that independent India has faced. Though intelligence inputs had suggested that some anti-national elements and enemy agents could use the occasion to foment trouble, especially in the militancy-torn Jammu and Kashmir, they were weakened by the urge for peace of the nationalist forces.
Taking into account the sensitivity of the issue, Hindus and Muslims offered themselves to ensure peace on the 'judgement day' and formed peace committees.
Such committees were also formed in the communally sensitive districts of Poonch, Rajouri, Doda and Kishtwar. The committee members were on September 28, when the judgement was pronounced by the Allahabad high court, seen asking members of their communities to respect the court verdict and maintain calm at all costs.
This could be the best example of communal amity. This also showed that the people were opposed to violence and wanted the settlement of the dispute within the confines of the Indian legal system.
This also reposed their faith in law. But faith in judicial system by the law-abiding citizens and the nationalist forces surely demands a stringent action against those who take law into their own hands.
The peace on a day, when even the government was apprehensive of serious trouble, also sent a message to trouble creaters and their mentors across the borders that the forward-looking Indians believed in making progress and not in resorting to the violent means that had the potential to ruin them and their coming generations.
This is also the right time for politicians and others, who try to exploit such situations for their vested interests, to understand that people want peace, not bloodshed. They also need to know that people want a peaceful closure to the issue. |
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