Communal Riots

   Communal Riots

Introduction: It is the violent public disturbance of the peace by a group of anti- social people who are generally motivated by religious sentiments.

Who gets affected: Manslaughter of the common man, irrespective of his religion and caste is troubled the most, lots of government and private infrastructure like industry, buses, trains and shops gets damaged, Businessmen suffer a huge loss because of the market being shut, and communication gets disrupted.

Who is responsible: It is generally a rage created by anti-social elements for their own vested interest, in order to gain public sympathy they first trigger a spark among people by rallies, hate speeches and then later come for their rescue, so that their public image gets better.

Why it happens: India is a diverse country which many religions and ethnic communities, where inequality among the people is millennium old practice which cannot be solved in a day but the useless rebellion’s attitude takes birth in a fraction of a second for the pseudo unity of a particular religion which in no way will support the people when they need them badly, as it is purely a political gimmick of anti-social elements.

One of the important observation is, Communal violence generally happens when there is a serious issue going on in the country, and the people facing the scrutiny and wrath of people creates a game plan to divert the short term memory of the people of India by hitting their homes so that they don’t find time to ponder over the problems of the countries, so that the culprits stay in peace.

Why it is uncontrollable: The State Forces does not have effective men force who are operational in nature, their incompetency against these problems is one of the main reasons, without deploying the Rapid Action Force, the riot controlling force of CRPF, the violence continues. One of the important reasons is the inability of the force to distinguish between the culprits and innocent, it is tough because India being such a populous country, it becomes a cumbersome task for tracing and nabbing the real mobs.

Government Reforms: After the mayhem of Muzaffarnagar, Government is finally planning to talk about “Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill” that aims to protect minorities against targeted attacks, because the government felt that there are many inadequacies in existing laws to deal with communal clashes, also the caste based rallies have been banned, deployment of High Definition CCTVs in sensitive areas have done some respite to nab the society spoilsports.

Citizen’s Reforms: The main problem arises from our mindset, in spite of being educated there are people who support these religious beliefs, they treat other’s religion or caste as a meagre and their to be superior and above all, taking pride in calling himself from an ‘X’ caste or religion but not proud to be called as an Indian, until and unless we refrain from adhering to this century old practices, these communal riots will not end, right from primary classes the moral and value system of an individual has to be made strong to treat all like a normal human beings irrespective of the caste and religion he belongs to, this thought process will only build the foundation of One and Whole India, where there will be single religion and caste known as “Indian-ism”.