As reported in the media about the violent incident on the last Thursday in Madhya Pradesh's Khirkiya , it seems to be or assumed to be the exact and true version of the incident. Reporting of the incidents have changed recently as the the partisan media some times fail to present partly due to political fear and partly due to their bosses' apathy towards one or other political ideology.
As we have seen in recent media coverage of Muzafferpur riots, where few of the leading news medias like NDTV , Times Now, IBN 7, Aajtak , Zee News , Headlines Today gave different interpretation of the same incident, often indulged in using the maligned cut-paste practise or tried to show selective portion of the known facts to create a distorted view of the incident and of the subsequent spread of the incident. The fourth watchdog pillar of a democracy, the media has fast deterioration in its transparency and honesty, the basic essence of a media channel.
The thousand strong mob went berserk after a cow carcass was found near a pond in Madhya Pradesh's Khirkiya town's Chipabad area. The rioters ran amok in Kheda area of Khirkiya town of Harda district, setting 10 houses on fire and torching more than a dozen vehicles on Thursday afternoon. According to an eye witness, the rioters shouted "leave the children and woman, but don't spare any man who blocks our passage. Four to five persons who mustered courage to oppose them were attacked with swords and rods. The injured, including a man who suffered head injuries, have been sent to Bhopal for treatment. Those living in Maharana Pratap Chowk in Chipabad area, the first locality rioters targeted were trumalised by fear and narrated the story that even after appeal to the rioters to spare them, they entered our place of worship, damaged it.
Authorities were forced to issue shoot-at-sight orders in Khirkiya town on Friday as the town remained edgy, while hundreds of cops' patrolled empty streets and an indefinite curfew remained in force. Officials confirmed 31 people were arrested and they had to work hard so that the Friday prayers could pass off peacefully at different mosques across the area under heavy police cover.
Now after the incident the police authorities are rigorously scanning the video footage of Thursday's violence, to identify more rioters and arrest them. MP police's special task force and Rapid Action Force jawans have staged a flag-march in Khirkiya and neighbouring areas and also arranged to send immediately (all within 24 hours of the incident) an heavy reinforcements to the riot-hit town from neighbouring districts.
SP Dipak Verma assured that no fresh untoward incident has been reported in Khirkiya and neighbouring areas and confirmed that seven cases of arson, rioting and attempt to murder have been filed against the rioters.
District collector Rajnish Srivastav said the situation was brought under control after the curfew was clamped and the relaxation in curfew would be decided only after carefully watching for the next few days. He said that seven people, critically injured in the violence, are undergoing treatment to a Bhopal hospital.
All the above reporting, if compared to what happened in the neighbouring state UP's Muzafferpur earlier this month, gives us few conclusive views, which people have to visualise, analyse and draw a conclusive judgement :
a) during election time the so called secular or the blamed communal parties plan the nasty ploy and work on that to incite the religion based flare up only to create polarisation of their vote banks ;
b) minority voters are always targeted, crushed, injured, killed, their property damaged; but not always by any communal party but more by the creator of the nasty ploy to create fear of insecurity to be used by the so called secular parties; so as to draw them on their side for protection. A, the poor,weaker and innocent sections of the minorities, always get trapped in that and suffers 90% of all damage to their properties and lives;
c) all these communal riots starts with some natural incidents or due to some planned hate creation;
d) most of the flare up can be stopped by 1} fast and strict non partisan use of force control by the administration 2} by allowing transparent news flow of the incident by the media and the administration, even a joint declaration by all the political parties,administration authorities, social and religious leaders saves escalation of the flare up, but in practise the political parties waits and delays the flow of facts, just to promote the rumour mongers to work to fulfil the nasty polarisation target.
If one analyse all the details on real time basis and draw a honest conclusion ,he will find that most of the riots are only and only political ploys by the so called secular part of the political establishment and amicably supported by all, just to consolidate their vote bank.
And this conclusion forces us to make a honest question to the recent incident at Muzaffernagar, "Do you still believe Muzaffarnagar riot was not a fixed game ?" I and most will surprise if you say no.