‘Muhammad Afzal Guru’, a name of a Kashmiri man, who has been transformed into an election manifesto headline, “We will hang Afzal, if voted to power.” Everyone is preparing hard to bid farewell to Afzal from the world by a single rope which will be pulled by a human being, like all of we are.
Do we know the man?
Do we know his crime for which they are going to make him leave the world?
Do we care?
It was at 11:30 am on 13th December 2001, five armed men in a white ambassador car attacked the Indian parliament. A day later on 15th December police claimed they have cracked the case and Afzal was among the four Kashmiri persons who got arrested. Afzal is a resident of Sopore, Baramulla, Kashmir. He is a surrendered militant and now was living his life by running a surgical instruments distribution shop, on commission basis, at Baramulla town. He got arrested in connection with the parliament attack case, he was awarded death sentence by the supreme court of India. But after protest demonstrations against his death sentence erupted in Kashmir, his death sentence got delayed and his family is seeking a presidential pardon for him, but his request is very far on the list. So the mercy petition is also taking time. But our politicians don’t miss any occasion to use Afzal’s death row as their tool for vote bank politics.
In the 15th Lok Sabha election, BJP election manifesto announced “Afzal will be hanged within no time if we will be voted to power. The BJP president Mr. Rajnath Singh said, “If NDA was voted to power it would immediately hang Afzal guru .......we would fulfil apex court order immediately.” This was not ended here also the congress leader, who recently during parliamentary elections visited Kashmir for poll campaign, Mr. Rahul Gandhi joined in and came out with, “Afzal guru will be hanged at his turn.” He accused BJP for releasing ‘Maulana Masood Azhar’ in the Indian airlines plane hijack to Kandahar.
Do people know that Afzal hadn’t a legal aid neither in Kashmir nor in Delhi?
What was Afzal, who was he, how he, a shopkeeper reached Delhi?
The mystery is deepening further deep.
People have to summarize the answer, Has Afzal got trapped in the political system of India or, is he really guilty of attacking the Indian parliament?
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Do we know Afzal Guru?
‘Muhammad Afzal Guru’, a name of a Kashmiri man, who has been transformed into an election manifesto headline, “We will hang Afzal, if voted to power.” Everyone is preparing hard to bid farewell to Afzal from the world by a single rope which will be pulled by a human being, like all of we are.
Do we know the man?
Do we know his crime for which they are going to make him leave the world?
Do we care?
It was at 11:30 am on 13th December 2001, five armed men in a white ambassador car attacked the Indian parliament. A day later on 15th December police claimed they have cracked the case and Afzal was among the four Kashmiri persons who got arrested. Afzal is a resident of Sopore, Baramulla, Kashmir. He is a surrendered militant and now was living his life by running a surgical instruments distribution shop, on commission basis, at Baramulla town. He got arrested in connection with the parliament attack case, he was awarded death sentence by the supreme court of India. But after protest demonstrations against his death sentence erupted in Kashmir, his death sentence got delayed and his family is seeking a presidential pardon for him, but his request is very far on the list. So the mercy petition is also taking time. But our politicians don’t miss any occasion to use Afzal’s death row as their tool for vote bank politics.
In the 15th Lok Sabha election, BJP election manifesto announced “Afzal will be hanged within no time if we will be voted to power. The BJP president Mr. Rajnath Singh said, “If NDA was voted to power it would immediately hang Afzal guru .......we would fulfil apex court order immediately.” This was not ended here also the congress leader, who recently during parliamentary elections visited Kashmir for poll campaign, Mr. Rahul Gandhi joined in and came out with, “Afzal guru will be hanged at his turn.” He accused BJP for releasing ‘Maulana Masood Azhar’ in the Indian airlines plane hijack to Kandahar.
Do people know that Afzal hadn’t a legal aid neither in Kashmir nor in Delhi?
What was Afzal, who was he, how he, a shopkeeper reached Delhi?
The mystery is deepening further deep.
People have to summarize the answer, Has Afzal got trapped in the political system of India or, is he really guilty of attacking the Indian parliament?
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