Circle of Life?

Just came across this news of the 3 condemned assassins of the late Mr. Rajiv Gandhi again moving the Madras High Court for commuting their death sentence. A death sentence which was originally handed over by the special court, upheld by the Madras High Court and then upheld by the Supreme Court. And again the clemency petition was rejected by the President of India in August 2011.

TNN | Aug 29, 2011, 04.40PM IST, CHENNAI: The three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have moved the Madras high court challenging the rejection of their clemency pleas by President Pratibha Patil.

Now I figure they are moving the HC against the rejection of the clemency petition. I am no judicial expert and I don't need to be one to understand that it's some utter sham that is going on in here. So, what would they do if the HC again rejects the plea, move the Supreme Court again? And then a new President against the judgement of the earlier President. And I am sure they'd hope another 20 years to pass in this loop. That's one heel of a Circle of Life - a vicious Circle.

From the day of the assassination in 1991 till this day, 20 years have passed. Are we waiting for the killers to die a natural death instead of being punished for what they deserved? They were being punished for what the law of the nation deemed as rarest of the rare case and awarded them the death sentence. And there are some of these political scumbags who cannot rise above their regional interests, who are aiding and abetting this case to drag on forever.


My main peeve is against this setting up a precedence where every convict on death row keeps on utilising the loopholes in the system and drags on their cases for years. Tomorrow Afzal Guru might do the same if and when the honorable President rejects the clemency petition. I am sure there are well wishers for him too in our political class. And then I shudder to think about when Ajmal Kasab takes the cue.


The honorable Madras HC should once and for all end this here. Or some other authority should end this. This is all the more necessary for the people of India to have faith in their judiciary.


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Edit: The execution of the 3 convicts has been put on hold for a couple of months by the Madras High Court. There was a discussion about the topic in one of the Social Networking sites that I frequent. Please follow the link below if you'd like to listen in. It's a Google Plus link to my Public post on the matter.


https://plus.google.com/108587007911875191407/posts/A81spCbipyC

Where does it stop..

..Yes, and how many ears must one man have,

Before he can hear people cry?

Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows

That too many people have died?

- Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind

Let's call this a plea to the deaf spineless political elite of India - to be strong, to show what it is meant to be leading the nation, to be answerable, to value the lives of the very people who have chosen them.


It doesn't take long for the plea of a billion people to turn into a battle-cry for sounding the death knell of this uber shameless spectacle. Let them not take matters into their own hand - let them not do A Wednesday on the Gurus and the Kasabs, let them not turn a Rang De Basanti on the Kalmadis and the Rajas.

Joi Aai Axom

I feel pain at the loss of innocent lives back in my native place - Assam. And like every Assamese, I feel betrayed by the leadership.

We have weaklings at the helm of affairs at the Center and more so in our beloved State. And because of their vote bank politics, they refuse to see the all too obvious nefarious designs of the illegal Bangladeshis in the state. Mr. Tarun Gogoi would just come up with a condolence message and thats where he thinks his duty ends. Then its back to the business of appeasing his Bangladeshi brethren and shielding them. When would these weaklings understand that these illegal immigrants are eating up our beloved state from within. You are giving them shelter for all the power and pelf you want but in the long run they will put your house on fire and thats what they have begun doing. ULFA had the firepower to carry out devastating attacks but with Huji and other Jehadi groups aiding them they have become all the more powerful and have undergone all the more moral degradation.

I have closely followed the posts in the Assam and Guwahati Orkut communities after the Black Thursday and it is surprising to see that there still are retarded souls who support ULFA after so much those bastards have brought unto the people of Assam. And there are people who forment devisive ideas, communal hatred even at this hour of crisis. The need of the hour is to stay away from communal hatred and present ourshelves as a united lot against the Bangladeshis, against the political fraternity patronising the Bangladeshis and against ULFA.
Probably it was ULFA who carried out the attack or probably the Jihadi outfits or probably both. But as all my fellow Assamese would agree, the root cause is still the illegal influx of these Bangladeshi immigrants to Assam. And if the Govt is not doing anything, then we would need to do everything to drive them out from Assam. Start by shunning all their services - rickshaws, labour, etc. and discourage others too from taking their services. No employment for Bangladeshis. We do not need the eyes of a politician to identify a Bangladeshi. Kick the Bangladeshis out from Assam.

And to our leaders, Mr. Tarun Gogoi, et al, its my earnest plea to you: stop playing with the lives of the people; stop abetting illegal influx of Bangladeshis when it is in your hands to do so. Some day they would point their guns at you too. Am sure, you would not like to be at the receiving end of such a gruesome attack while some f*cking minister reads out condolence messages to you. Do not vent the ire of an Assamese as History is witness to what an angry Assamese is capable of doing. Your Bangladeshi brethren would probably spare you but the Assamese wont forgive you...

Joi Aai Axom.