Even Uttar Pradesh like
other states of the country has been on the altar of sabotages and protest
agitations for the last 15 days of December this year. Last 15 days of the end
of the year always be celebrated normally of festivals ceremonies and the occasions
of leave enjoyment, from the courts up to schools, and the government servants
are looked to be dealt with their due leave of the year.
There stands several chances
of rebate on the purchasing of goods available from Christmas to New Year
normally. It is time of overcrowd in the resorts, zoos and in the parks, but
the NRC and the CAA sparked violence and the agitations on December 18 to 19
this year spoiled all the excitement, pleasant mind setup and enjoyment of this
running period this year.
It had been the first time
in Uttar Pradesh when violence arsons and brickbatting had been reported every area
of the state and more than 19 people were killed; and the injured counts
reached to the 500 including 282 police personals.
However no curfew has been clamped
in Uttar Pradesh, but 30 districts of the state including Lucknow have been
restricted or snapped from the internet services -- it can't be said less than
curfew. More than 5000 crore trading have been affected from the internet
services snapping in different areas of the state; lacs of people suffered the
crisis of their bread and butter. Whenever the riots or the tension prevailed
in the past in the state capital of Uttar Pradesh, the curfew had been clampped
mere in those areas; but the snapping of Internet in the old Lucknow aftermath
of the violent protest, Hazratganj, Cantt, Indira Nagar, Aliganj, Gomti Nagar
-- all the areas had to face such type of difficulties. The consumers more than
2.5 lacs of OLA and UBER during this period were deprived of the services.
The services of restaurants
like Swiggy and Zomato were remained closed in the wake of the tension. It was
first time since the metro started -- its services gave the Lucknow residents –
punishment of halt taste during the violent protest.
How much the hatching
conspiracy of miscreants behind these protests were successful, how much of
propaganda and unawareness played role, how much the political parties like
Congress and Samajwadi parties had contributed in sparking of violence and
protests, before going to review on all
the questions there is need of looking into the lapses in the alertness of
administration -- whatever contemplated during the protests!
It is first time when in the
observation it surfaced that the LIU and the intelligence organizations’ inputs
worked very weak for the preparation and the alertness in the wake of the
protestors and the mass protest. There were seen the police force looked to be
like the traffic controllers during the VIP passage on the road.
The administration was failed in arranging the
adequate Police Force in these places after the grant of permissions issued to
41 organizations in different places together in Lucknow on December 19.
Central Reserve Police Force
were not deployed during this protests. the lapses in the preparation of
administration on next day looked; consequently, the miscreants and goons kept
on doing the sabotages and arsons. A little relief in Lucknow was that the
schools remained closed in the wake of severe cold in the city on december 18; otherwise,
the schools’ children in these violent protest could have faced much
difficulties on December 19.
The Yogi government was
failed on beginning to deal with the situations. The inexperienced officers,
mutual communication gap, the laxity of officers in many districts and the
snapped Internet Services for long periods without reasons – all things kept
the government in confinement.
If we say about the state capital, the
restrictions over the internet services until evening of December 25 was not
lifted in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit in spite of being
situation normal. The functionaries in the administration were to say that
Yogi’s government was in fear that the Prime Minister, Modi, could have been
cognizant of the state’s situation which might have displeased him or it might
have been a little mistake in the respect of state government.
After the initial drawbacks when the state
government took the drastic steps to control over the situation, the statement
of head of state hurt deeply to the people's expects. The Chief Minister had
issued a statement giving the warning to the outrage and violent mob. He said
that there would be taken revenge by forfeiting the properties of rioterers.
However the Chief Minister said, after correcting the statement, that the
rioterers who were indulged in the arsons, the brickbatting and the violence
had been identified through the CCTV camera footage.
The adjustment of damages shall be done by
forfeiting the properties of the accused, but very sharp reactions were
observed on the word ‘revenge’ in the statement. Many Muslims’ organisation as
well as the elites who said this statement was an undemocratic, and besetting
CM in questions, asked how a head of elected government could have talked of revenge from anyone. The
political reactions on this statement voiced up. Samjwadi party chief said that
as the chief of state talks about taking revenge, the talks of slogans ’Sabka
Sath, and Sabka Vishwas’ should be shut up. Even the congress party had dubbed the
statement a tarnishing the dignity of the democracy and the constitution, and
asked the CM to apologise. Akhilesh
Yadav asked that who talked about revenge with the public, what good
would that government be?
Now the government has begun
its action to forfeit the properties of accused. A few shops in Firozabad
Muzaffarnagar Bijnor Lucknow districts have been sealed. The state governments
have arrested more than 925 people on the charges of the sabotages and the
violence so far, and the cases have been registered against the people under
section 313.
Moreover the 5558 accused in
the past were taken in custody under detention. 120 of these are such people
who have been arrested for the propaganda through social media.
If we talk about social
media, the cases against 16761 posts in UP have been registered. 7573
twiters,9076 face book and 172 Youtubes profiles have been deleted yet.
Identifying the people's faces, who were indulge in the arson and violence, are
being advertised so that they could be captured. Several operations are being
carried out in search of rioterers.
The forthcoming days are the fiery ordeal to
the state government. On the one hand it is to work to maintain the law and
order situation, on the other the action is to be taken against the arsonists
and the violent protests, and that the action must be in the purview of law,
not of revenge is to take care of this view too.
However, OP Singh, DGP of
state, have directed that there should not be any action without any evidence
during the investigation and there must not be any torment of any innocents,
but the backbiting began to overhear that the state police look much influenced
to the CM’s 'revenge' statement.
As to confirm the revenge,
the notices of recoveries are being served to the accused in many cities of the
state, but the administration and the police have to take care that the time
aftermath of violence is most sensitive. A little bit the conduct of government
became uneven, the public’s resentment what is now seen against the rioters
and outrageous may spurt against the revenge policy.
