The whole media today is busy flashing news about the oath
taking ceremony of Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) or about whether Congress is going to
give support to it or if AAP will function efficaciously or not and in between
all these things has forgotten to recollect that there are other things too on
which they need to focus on besides the spicy political news.
One such news is of the demolition of hutments under the
Mansarovar Park Metro Line in northeast Delhi. Bulldozers slanged and plunged
the houses into dust in just a period of time. That was an action needed to be
done but the authorities forgot to deal with the other part of the situation
i.e. the rehabilitation of the people or compensating them with temporary
alternate accommodation.
But can the authorities bearing the onus to carry out the
work conduct it efficiently? Not a question to be reckoned on. We all know the
answer. Our authorities can’t be attentive in matters of national vitality, so
how can they be attentive and sympathetic in this one. The authorities sans
making any arrangement for the affected people just debilitated their hutments
in sand and went away forsaking 900 affected people to do something by
themselves or face death. Out
of those 900 around 500 were children and something which is more reprehensible
than ever is that 250 children of those children have not even observed their
third birthday, some were only hours old and all this was done on the coldest day of month, the day after
Christrmas. When such an
inexcusable and unpardonable action is set off by the authorities then what
else we can expect from the nation. Today we are busy speculating the results
of 2014 elections. Today we are busy predicting whether Kejriwal will transmute
the face of Delhi or not. Today people are ready to protest for the strip
checking of Devyani Khobragade in United States of America but who is there
with these people who are not even able to notify people about their grievance
and elucidate them how much pain and agony they have suffered due to this
unjust and inconsequential action taken by the authorities. If something
happens to any of those 500 children then also who cares. The report will not
be even flashed in news and if it gets to there then also who cares. We have a
complete indifferent view towards the plight faced by others. When these 500
children grow up and come to know about the deplorable act then what will they
do. They will loathe their nation. They would say that, “We don’t need a nation
in which we can’t be even given. “ Authorities take up to months and years to
file a charge sheet against criminals or to even apprehend them but to destroy
the house of weaker section of society in the coldest day of December is
something which needs to be probed. The encroachment was illicit but was those
500 culpable or the perpetrators. Were those children at fault? When parties
need vote then heads of big political parties go to their hutments and discuss
their issues but when they really need help no one is there to help them. Are
not they “Aam Aadmi” of the nation? Another problem with them is that no one is
there to raise their voice. They are financially weaker and not dalits or they
would have got a political leader to make them their vote bank.
Jai Hind, Jai Bharat
Jai Ma Bharti
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