I am a staunch supporter of the Army and the defence forces in general due to the highest level of integrity and discipline that they demonstrate regardless of what the situation may be.
The Indian Army deployed in Kashmir grabs the highest eyeballs of probably all defence personnel all over India with daily updates of border operations, counter insurgency and other activities that are being done.
India being a democracy, elections are one of the key pillars of the democratic movement without which the existence of the same would be challenged.
In the same spirit Kashmir too held elections, the organisation of which is protested by a section of the population in Kashmir and the protest of what can be made of the news reports goes quite deadly. This results in security personnel being on their toes to do their duty while remaining in the targets of the protesters where use of stones, Molotov cocktails and other projectiles are quite common.
In comes Major Gogoi, actually he responded, a company of SSB personnel guarding a polling booth were surrounded and attacked by a mob and they called for help as they were outnumbered and saw great risk to their lives. Major Gogoi rushed to the spot only to find the situation quite grim.
And so Farooq Dar, Stone pelter/voter/mourner/wedding invitee/ weaver ( I do not know which, hence all of them) was accorded a ride n the front of the convoy's jeep to escort out the security personnel of the soup they were in.
The immediate effect was no one pelted any more stones and almost everyone lived to tell the tale.
This solution by Major Gogoi is probably the first instance of any such unconventional steps taken to minimise disturbance and causalities in the area; the people from Assam aren't simply called Awesomese for a reason and personally, this move deserves all the praise.
However, there is a small issue to be addressed not about what transpired what what after this, public memory is frail and we usually tend to forget things in this age of breaking news (refer to earlier blog) but legal precedence is a dangerous thing, it never forgets. I shall describe why I speak of it.
My dear reader, I am not saying at all that what has been done is wrong, just that this should be a one off event and not a common occurrence like the earlier trends of ink and shoe throwing.
The description is as such, imagine any riot or clash that you remember where defence personnel/ police were attacked in a manner that is unimaginable; now, hold that thought.
Since you are holding onto the thought, now imagine the ones attacked upon tying up one of the protesters on their car and driving away and saying out to the courts and the media the same words Major Gogoi had used and even citing him, but in reality they just chose an easy way out to blame the crowd or take it a notch further to hurt the person taken and blame the crowd. These probabilities are what that concern me and should be taken care of.
So my suggestion would be to stop all debate of what has happened and let it go.
you may let go of the thought now...have a great time...
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