Mumbai blast came with no surprise. The modus operandi is recurring. Pakistani terrorist recruit locals, they in turn keep bags of RDX or similar material in crowded places and rest is taken care by those explosives. Even though, India is no innocent to terrorist attacks, the response to such acts is invariably useless at best and ignorant at worst. Blaming police force or intelligence is easy but they are the victims themselves. They are overstressed, under paid and carelessly man-handled by political class and constantly whipped by press. The real culprit is the political class that lacks the conviction of doing what is needed and commitment to stay on the right path. Glance at our Prime minister’s speech and it becomes certain that India will remain unprepared for next attack and the culprits of every terrorist act henceforth, will be as free as birds and citizens will be constantly under threat.
Let’s keep aside the controversy whether this attack was act by LeT or Hizb or perhaps, by Naxalites. It’s pretty useless to discuss that at this point. Almost 200 innocent people are dead and more than 500 are injured. What is important is to see the kind of response our government gives to the culprits. If these bombings are done by LeT or Hizb, then, is our government ready to declare full throttle war with Pakistan? Or at least, is our government even ready to give ultimatum to Pakistani government to hand-over Dawood Ibrahim & Co.? Forget about warning Pakistan, (Manmohan Singh don't have balls to 'warn' Pakistan) is our government ready to tackle the homegrown terrorists like Abu Azmi, SIMI, Imam of Jama Masjid, Delhi or perhaps, Deobandis? The answer is excruciatingly no. It is not humanly possible for our politicians to work for the betterment of the society. Because, if they do that then there is always danger of loosing certain vote bank. They will rather sale their country but loose their vote bank. We celebrate our democracy as a paramount ornament of modern India. Agreed that there is no option to the democracy - but with this kind of politics of appeasement - it is fast becoming a curse for the future of India.
When I was writing this blog, reports started coming indicating SIMI as a culprit. This organization was banned by government almost four years ago. Even though, the stated aim of SIMI was to destroy Hindu India and establish Islamic state of India, political parties like Samajvadi Party are on forefront to defend the organization. It’s scary considering Samajvadi Party is the ruling party of Uttar Pradesh which is the largest state of India with largest Muslim population. ‘Secular activist’ like Shabana Azmi & Co. are already up in arms and asking government to not to target Muslim community. (read it as not to touch culprits who are Muslims)
Most of the media – national and international – is constantly mentioning that Mumbaikars are brave. I feel like it is opportunistic on part of media and politicians to say that. Of course, Mumbaikars are brave and the way Mumbai functions in spite of all the troubles is worth applauds. But people in Mumbai were back on tracks immediately because they don’t have any options. They seems to have accepted the fact that the politicians can’t promise safety of citizens and media being biased end up playing in hands of politicians.
Political correctness should not come when the matter is related to national security. But the current recipe of Indian government to deal with Pakistan seems more like road to perdition. There are only two ways out of current political quagmire in India. Either, more bomb blast will force politicians to go tough on terrorist and on Pakistan. Or, Indian voters can use their voting weapon to oust these inept and anti-national politicians. The second option is better and useful.
