Why the riots not followed temple attack?  
 

 

 

 
Raghavendra P Bellamkonda, MI, USA

One might seriously confused why the riots happened after Godhra incident and why Not after swami Narain temple attack. The ones most disappointed are Pakistani military ruler Musharraf, ISI and their Islamic terrorist groups. Equally surprised on nonoccurance of riots are Anti-India propaganda elements in western media, Pseudo secular and left biased Indian English media and so-called (Pseudo) secularists. Lets clear their confusion on this.

The top most factor attributed to riots after Godhra attack is the involvement of local muslims in the attack. The muslim vendors in the railway station, the muslim councillors of Congress party and some other local muslims were involved in the incident directly and indirectly. This raged entire Gujarat, especially victim community. If there was no involvement of local muslims, I would hardly imagine such large scale riots afterwards. In the case of Temple attack, the muderers were NOT only nonlocal, they were NOT Indians at all. So the people havn't thought of revenge on muslims, but definitely determined to fight and revenge the terrorism of Pakistani terrorists and their mentors.

Second factor for the riots after Godhra is the provocative, irresponsible and partisan statements of Pseudo secularists and their supporting media all over the country. Instead of condemning the incident, the Pseudo secularists interpreted that the victims themselves were responsible for the murder, since the victims were Hindu and belonged to RSS. They didn't see the loss of innocent life. For them, Hindus killings are OK and justified. The crooked politicians like Sitaram Yechuri, Shabana Azmi, Amar Singh went on saying that, "the Ram savaks were shouting 'Bharat mata ki jai' and 'jai shriram'. This provoked muslims and they attacked Ram sevaks. Therefore Ram sevaks were totally responsible for the attack". Is there any validity in the statement? Is shouting of a slogan justifiable for a murder? The left biased English media also supported the pseudo secularists. These all things added the fuel to the angry of Gujrathis. Surprisingly, after temple attack, the pseudo secularists and English media did not do what they did after Godhra attack. Though, some rogue Congress leaders like Shankar Singh Vaghela tried to politicise the issue by calling it Modi's failure or Gujarat's government failure, while many people were still grieving the loss of their loved ones and many others were involved in rescue operations.

Third factor is a positive and better one. That is the matured thinking and understanding of Hindu and muslim groups, chief minister Narendra Modi, RSS (appealed for peace) and even common man that the temple attack is designed to draw communal divide between Hindus and muslims NOT only in Gujrat, but all over India. Everybody behaved like Indian and sent a clear message to Pakistan that they cannot cause communal riots in India, Not any more.