There were gory pictures showing the killing of our country men by the ""cold blooded murderers" (Naxals) issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs in major dailies. Considering the fact that there are murders at even larger scale (both: cold-blooded and 'suave') by other Terrorists, Mafia, sometimes directly and indirectly supported by the SYSTEM itself (remember ALL the blasts throughout, the parliament attack, mass massacare of the Kashmiri Pandits, Manjunath Shanmughan..there are many which can't be even mentioned- Suicides by the farmers is a murder, let's say..). Which ministry took a note of those?
If by issuing these pictures the home ministry thinks that it will garner support in their cause against Naxals then let us think about this: the people who actually support Naxals do not(mostly can not) read these mainstream dailies. and if the target is the people who actually read them then i am afraid its a dubious propaganda. The System and the Naxals, both are my compatriots. If my govt refrains from taking any substantive action (even in self-defense) against those who keep on gnawing at our very existence (be it Taj, LOC, LAC, N-E..) and prefers to blabber meekly things like "dialogue is the way forward" then why does it not prefer the dialougue-route with Naxals. Are they psychopaths on a killing spree or do they have some demands 'genuine' to them? i feel if someone goes to a farmer who is about to commit suicide and tells, Look! here is a gun and rather than killing yourself kill the one who has brought you to suicide, what will he do?? There is a Naxal movement lurking in all those places where there is poverty and no sign of socio-political-economic recovery.
A tropical cyclone dies automatically when the warm ocean water supply to it is cut off. In this age of austerity the 'holy-cows' should act in bringing about inclusion of all sections of Indian society in the development process rather than wasting money on such immature, imperialistic propaganda.
..to sum it up i would like to ask something to our honourable Home Minister who recently declared that we will eliminate the Naxals and then immediately follow it up with development work in those areas. Sir, had you not been placed so high up in the system I would have had the courage to ask you to take up the development work honestly along with dialogue and you will not have to eliminate any of your countrymen.
