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| Delhi HC blast further recede possibility Of amnesty to Afzal Guru. | | | yash Bhasin | 9/13/2011 12:41:40 AM |
| If The Delhi High Court blast on September 7 was really meant to
pressurise India to grant amnesty to 2001 Parliament attack convict,
Afzal Guru on death row, as claimed by Harqt-Ul-Jihad Islami (Huji),
who had the very same day owned the responsibility for the blast, the
same has proved counter productive. The blast that has killed 13
persons so far and wounded about 90 others, with some of them losing
their limbs or suffering other permanent disabilities, has only
strengthened the resolve of the nation to take head on the terrorists,
showing no mercy to them. The opinion against granting amnesty to
Afzal Guru, which was already overwhelming, has further swelled.
On the Star Plus electronic channel debate held two days after the
blast, the participants belonging to both the ruling and opposition
parties were unanimous on tackling terrorism with iron hands and
opposing any clemency to Afzal Guru. Besides the Anti Terrorist Front
President, Manpreet Singh Bitta, a Youth Congress leader basically and
Shiv Sehna turned Congress leader and Union Minister, Sanjay Nirotam
expressed them selves against granting amnesty to Afzal Guru and not
surrendering before the threats and blackmail by the enemies of the
country. The BJP spokespersons, Mukhtiar Abbas Naqbi and the CPIM
representative in the debate forcefully opposed granting clemency to
Afzal Guru and pleaded for dealing with the terrorists with
determination, using deterrent methods.
Many Muslim organisations and the community leaders have condemned the
cowardly act with the same force as have done the leaders of other
religious communities. So much so that otherwise sympathetic and
friendly to the Kashmiri terrorists in J&K are also obliged to condemn
the blast, though for the sake of record only. Both factions of
Hurriyat Conference, one lead by Maulvi Umar Farooq and the other lead
by the hard core secessionist and Islamic fundamentalist leader Sayeed
Ali Shah Gelani could not help condemning the blast, terming it an un
Islamic act. It is another thing that Gelani supports and defends the
violent protests by Kashmiri youths, calling them as freedom fighters.
Notably, Gelani’s statement condemning Delhi High Court blast was not
accompanied by threats of reprisal and blood shed in Kashmir if Afzal
Guru is hanged. He had issued warning to this effect earlier, when
Afzal Guru’s mercy plea was rejected by the President of India.
Obviously, he is put in defensive by the dastardly act of terrorists,
whose Kashmir links are suspected. As far moderate Hurriyat conference
and its Chief, Maulvi Umar Farooq is concerned, his any assertion for
clemency to Afzal Guru will now be taken with a pitch of salt and
termed as done out of compulsion of situation in Kashmir and fear of
meeting the fate his late father as well as his party colleague Abdul
Gani Lone had met at the hands of Kashmiri terrorists. After the
Whikileak’s’ disclosure of Umar’s talk with US diplomat, favouring
death sentence to Guru, if he is really guilty, any plea by him for
amnesty to Afzal Guru will be lacking sincerity in public perception.
The JKLF leader Yasin Malik who himself is charged of involvement in
killing of 4 IAF officers in Srinagar, at initial stage of militancy
in Kashmir, two had to condemn the blast in strong terms. Still
another terrorist sympathetic, so called main stream party in Kashmir,
the PDP too condemned the same, without reiterating its advocacy for
clemency to Afzal Guru. Above all, Afzal Guru himself has distanced
him from his pending hanging prompting the perpetrators of the crime,
calling it against Islamic principles. This is the major defeat to the
terrorists who have committed the heinous crime, which they claim to
have been committed to safe Afzal Guru from gallows.
The demands for early hanging Afzal Guru and against any clemency to
him have become louder and more forceful. Fearing its backlash in
Jammu region, where they have main support base, the Congress leader
of Jammu have cautioned the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah against
advocating clemency for Afzal Guru and have given clear cut hint of
their opposition to resolution in the state assembly in this regard.
With BJP upping its ante for early hanging of Afzal Guru and against
any leniency towards the terrorists, the Congress at the national
level is put in defence for its silence to tweet by its alliance
partner in J&K, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, suggesting J&K
assembly adopting resolution pleading amnesty to Afzal Guru, on the
lines of Tamilnadu assembly unanimously adopting a resolution, urging
the President of India to reconsidered her rejection of mercy pleas on
behalf of the killers of late Congress leader and a former Prime
Minister Rajeev Gandhi. Any revision of the decision by the President
and the Central govt to the rejection of clemency to the Rajeev
killers as well as to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, a
Kashmiri, which was already in doubt, has now become next to
impossible. The opinion in the country against showing any leniency
towards the wagers of war on the country, has gained further strength
and the advocates of soft line towards the country’s enemies has lost
further ground in the wake of blast outside Delhi High Court.
Sensing the moved in the country, the otherwise advocates of soft line
towards the terrorist and those who confuse and try to divert people’s
attention from the fountain head of terrorism, Pakistan, like Congress
Gen. Secy. Digvijay Singh have resisted the temptation to indulge in
RSS and BJP bashing by suggesting possibility of their involvement in
the blast. Digvijay Singh had done so in the case of recent blast in
Mumbai, charging RSS of running a bomb making factory. The other
reason for Digvijay Singh and his like minded traditional RSS bashing
politicians for no blaming RSS for Delhi blast, has been that the BJP
could counter charge the Congress of having links with the blast, to
divert the attention of the country from Anna Hazare’s crusade against
corruption and wide support to the same in the country, which is
hitting hard the electoral prospects of Congress.
The silence over the act by the Congress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi,
is intriguing. After being hackled and shouted down on his visit to
Ram Manhor Lohia hospital to seek publicity for his showing concern to
the victims of blast, Rahul went almost underground. Against Rahul’s
boomeranged moved to steel the lime light, his cousin Varun Gandhi has
shown more sincerity about his sympathy for the injured in the blast.
Varun is learned to have visited RML hospital without much fan fare,
donated the blood for the victims and left, unnoticed by many
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