Debacle of Gyaneshwari Express: who is guilty?

Today when I sat down to write this blog after listening the news that already 104 dead bodies had been discovered amongst the 137 victims in the train accident of 2102 UP Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneswari Super Deluxe Express bound to Kurla from Howrah, few questions jumbled into my mind that every time why some innocent people are being killed, who are these brutal Maoists, why political parties are so eager to take an advantage out of this accident, why every now and then Maoist attacks help one political party specifically, why these so-called Maoists has targeted Indian Railway etc.….Unfortunately, questions are more in my mind than answers. This recent catastrophe has made so many families ruined, so many mothers have lost their children, so many wives have lost their husbands, several children has lost their parents, number of priceless lives have come to an end. And in the midst of this crisis situation the main two political parties are trying their best to emulate each other to reach the people before the civic poll which is on 30th May. I do not know whether it is so-called Maoists or anybody behind this blatant attack to play with human lives, but it is a “politically motivated” preplanned full proof operation. If we peep into this matter deeply then we will find few interesting ‘coincidences’ (if at all we are ready to believe as coincidences!!) which will back my words-“politically motivated”. Firstly, I find how CPI(M) started to take full advantage of this accident immediately; secondly, state government of West Bengal asked CID to investigate in this matter by apprehending that opposition will blame them for this massacre (though generally Railway ministry is supposed to take step for any investigation for any accident in Rail); thirdly, as all political big honchos of oppositions are forced to be busy in development of the recovery of the accident just 72 hours before the civic polls; fourthly, how Railway Minister, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo, Ms Mamata Banerjee rushed to the accident place at night and announced hefty compensation plans for all the victims and their families…these four reasons forced me to think it as “politically motivated”. Coincidentally (!!), every time Maoists do something it directly or indirectly helps CPI(M). Still I remember, before Parliament Election, Maoists announced to boycott casting vote in Junglemahal and that helped CPI(M) to win in that place though they were defeated by opposition in almost all the places, attacking rail by Maoists in near past has been raised as a sign of Maoists protests (coincidentally again the TMC supremo is the rail minister), and again this attack happened 72 hrs ahead of civic polls which take away the time from opposition from their last round of announcements in their favor before the public cast their valuable votes. What a coincident!!! That is why I wrote “politically motivated”, because coincident cannot happen so regularly. In Bengali there is an age old adage “Rajai rajai yuddha kore, oolookhagrai pran dei” which means battles between kings take lives of innocents. War between aberrant Maoists, TMC and CPI(M) has taken lots of innocents’ lives in recent past. Being a responsible common citizen of India nay Bengal, I have just few questions to Maoists, TMC and CPI(M) why the hell do you play politics with common persons’ lives? If you are eager to show your muscle power, why don’t you show your muscle power to each other? Why do you all keep common persons’ lives at stake for your culpable politics? Were you unaware of the fact that none of your so-called enemies would be in that train? You knew!! You enemies do not travel by some common trains; and your motive was to vent out your political frustration by killing innocent common people!! Because you know you can not do any harm to big honchos of your so-called enemies, and as they roam with their high profile security it is much more cumbersome than to take the lives of common people. Before and during the time of election all the politicians with their folded hands look like slaves or beggars and they are happy to pose in this manner but once the election gets over their folded hands open up and become their biggest power to do all kinds of nasty things possible and we, the voters, start to fold our hands like slaves in front of them with the quest of our security and justice. Utter shame!! With every such accident happens the ruling government blames opposition for the accidents to create adverse situation and opposition blames government for their inability; if one wants to assess both these parties then he will find only one commonality in thousands of un-commonalities between them that is “political motive”. All are busy to take the maximum advantage out of a heart breaking dire situation. My take in this point is neither ruling party can cajole nor opposition can blame. No one can refuse their duties and responsibilities. Mr. Chief Minister, do not you think that being the ruler of this state you have some responsibility beyond blaming opposition? You have responsibility to take care of the security of your state people, do not forget that these are those people who voted for you to rule this state for long 33 years, you just cannot try to take political advantage before the civic poll, you should take a strong step to stop this type of sabotage. Ms Rail Minister, you cannot ask public only to take care of their lives, its under your ministry you should investigate the reason and take care of the lives of the public who travel by your train from one corner to another corner of the country and these are those public who had voted you to sit in that chair in Delhi, these are those people whom you are asking to vote for you in civic polls so that you can become chief minister of this state in next year 2011 assembly election; you should take security measure to take care of thousands of lives otherwise hefty compensation packages or dry consolation will not work; do not think every time blaming CPI(M) will give oxygen to your existence. Being a citizen, it is my humble request to all you politicians please, do not play politics with innocent lives, you are supposed to take care of our lives, as we take care of your vote bank in the time of election, yes I know this is the world’s hypothesis “give and take” and you are no exception and we do not expect also. As we give our valuable votes to you with the hope of development and security, so you do your duties. If you do your own duties you will see vote bank will eventually swell up without even giving pose by folded hands. Keep your shameless politics aside, ignore your nasty blame game, plunge into the rescue operation and investigation to find out real convicts behind this tragedy and give a robust verdict to those convicts so that before committing such brutality they think twice, then you need not think about your vote banks, you will see those are already filled with blessings of people.