BANDH in the name of GOD

BANDH In the name of GOD

Thursday the 3rd of July our nation faced one more ‘BANDH’, which was a combine call of BJP and VHP, to protest the revocation of land transfer order to Amarnath shrine board by Jammu & Kashmir government, which turned into violent and clashes in many parts of country including our state. City like Bhopal Indore witnessed a communal flare-up.
Violent and clashes started when ‘Bandh’ supporters specially activist of Hindu organizations like Bajrang Dal, Vishv Hindu parishad, forcibly tried to close down shops and other business establishment in support of ‘Bandh’. The worst incidence of this complete episode was occurred in Satna City where Bajrang Dal activists in main Satna market reached a small jewelers shop of one Heeralal Soni (28) and asked him to close the shop. When he refused, they barged into the shop, looted some jewelry and beat him up
Bandh supporters humiliated and beaten him a lot in front of others because he keep the shutter of his home cum shop half close. He couldn’t tolerate the humiliation and in result he poured kerosene himself and set ablaze later he succumbed to his injuries. Hiralal was the bread earner of his family, now the question is any of those political outfits that supported Bandh are ready to take the responsibility of Hiralal’s family?
As for as my opinion is concern as a Muslim I m also in against the revocation of land transfer order to Amarnath shrine board, due to population increasing and availability of facilities and resources numbers of pilgrims increases year by year, like in Muslim community HAJ pilgrims increases every year, so for the benefit and comfort of Amarnath pilgrims its necessary to construct and develop rest house and other facilities there so the pilgrim can get more and more advantage, Amarnath shrine is not only a place of Hindus pilgrims, it’s a center of Hindu Muslim unity because in the year 1850 A.D, a Muslim shepherd from Batakot, named Buta Malik first discovered the Amarnath cave, since than representative of the Malik family always be present at the holy shrine alongwith the Mahant and Pundits (Hindu priest) during the period of the pilgrimage each year, and as a reward one third of all the yearly offerings of Amarnath shrine to be given to the Malik family.
Beside this we should strongly appose the way of protest “Bandh’ in which a common and daily earning man get hurt, because in the name of God we shouldn’t hurt his other people.


Sharjeel Khan