How come #Vikaspuri and #Dadri lynching cases different?

Yogesh Mishra

March 26, 2016

Not long ago, the so-called intellectuals had dubbed entire India as intolerant and accused Centre for playing communal game. The dissenting voices were heard from all corners of the country. It happened in wake of Dadri lynching case. Suddenly, the litterateurs and artistes had discovered sensitive soul inside them and they started returning their awards in protest. They said they did so after hearing voice of their conscience. Fair enough. Now, will they show similar sentiments in Dr Pankaj Narang's lynching in Vikaspuri, Delhi? No. Because, they know there is no scope to drag the Centre into vicious game again in Narang's episode. Why, just because Narang was a Hindu? Or, the idiot bunch is well aware that the Center was never in the scene - neither in Vikaspuri, nor in Dadri?

Boy! The entire game is of playing a politics of convenience for own advantage. That time, the hue and cry on Dadri helped anti-BJPians to insert Muslim card in Bihar polls and they succeeded in obtaining anticipated result by doing so, although there were other factors, too, which played deciding role in swinging the voters from Bhagwa brigade to Lalu-Nitish combine.

In Narang's case, the secular and intellectual lot predicted the outcome beforehand. In fact, they knew that there is no such card called Hindu card in Indian politics and nobody is going to get benefited by it in ensuing elections in four states and one union territory.

Pankaj Narang was ruthlessly killed in front of his house and in presence of his family members at Vikaspuri in Delhi. The incident followed his heated exchange with two persons in motorcycle as the latter threatened him of dire consequences.

Narang first made a couple of calls to police for help, but the great Delhi police couldn't respond because of busy network. He then rushed to Janakpuri district centre with hope to catch a PCR van, but the destiny had something else for him on March 23, 2016 night.

Nine people dragged Narang from his home and thrashed him with sticks and rods till his death. Since four out of nine were juveniles, the Delhi court sent them to correctional home while the remaining five were sent to Tihar jail.

Now see who were the five adults – Naseer, Maesar, Amir, Ameer and Gopal. The secular politicians (apparently the self-declared bastions of democracy) and idiotic bunch of intellectuals took a sigh of relief that nobody can now give the incident a communal hue as there were both Hindus and Muslims among accused. Nobody knows the fifth accused Gopal was actually Gopal or somebody else.

Strange! They cry and shout for Akhlaq, they cry and shout for Rohith Vemula, but they become stolid when Pankaj Narang dies. What a hypocrisy? How come their emotions burst for some and vanish for others? Similar is attitude of the media – it gives hype to some incidents and downplays others.

Its high time India identified the hypocrites and presstitutes so that they may not play with its emotions and disturb the communal harmony in future.