Wake up before its too late

How many lives will have to be put at stake before our politicians wake up? Are we prepared to face terror in our country? If yes, why have we not able to stop the terrorist from claiming innocent lives? Who is to be blamed for their confidence? No body will have answers to this ongoing debate. 36 hours of uncontrollable terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 125 innocent people and injured more than 300 in the financial capital of India still lives in terror. Mumbai, is often said to bounce back after getting hurt brutally but till when will the spirit of mumbaikars be tested? Mumbai is a remarkably resilient city, and has taken repeated serial bomb blasts in its stride. There have been unprecedented attacks in the country several times but seems that we are never going to learn a lesson. America learnt a lesson after 9/11 and never did it leave any untoward incident to touch it. But in India, we wake up only when we get a sudden blow.

After Mohan Chand Sharma’s passing away, it’s now ATS chief Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar one of India’s top encounter specialist who laid down their lives for the country without fearing for his own family. But do we know how to respect our heroes? Amar Singh had the audacity to say that M.C Sharma was killed in a fake encounter. If we really knew the worth of life, we wouldn’t have allowed such atrocious attacks to happen again and again. The sight of the cops who face such terrorists is indeed depressing. They are not given even proper bullet proof jackets to safeguard themselves. A lathi in their hand is all they have, where on the other hand, the terrorists are better equipped with arms and ammunitions. Here, we do not give our cops, proper telecommunication systems and there, the terrorists use satellite phones.

Raj Thackeray talks about Marathi men, employment for marathis but does he come forward when his own Marathi men are in danger? Where is Raj Thackeray and his 'Brave' sena...??? Tell him that 200 NSG commandos from Delhi (all North & south Indians, especially from parts of UP & BIHAR) have been sent to Mumbai to fight the Terrorists...so that he can sleep peacefully. If the present government has nothing to do to ensure safety in the city, how will a common man survive? And if the opposing government uses this as a strategy to point out fingers, then it also has no authority to do so. It’s high time we stop playing hide and seek with ourselves. Only during the time of elections all the politicians come out and face the public. Otherwise they sit mum and watch terror take its course. The uproar of combating terror stays in news only till it is newsworthy. After a few days all is forgotten and life goes back to where it was. Only the affected families lament the loss of their loved ones.