Will the Home Minister resign?
Yes, I firmly believe that it’s not an individual responsibility. It’s rather a collective amenability. Also no one can envisage what would happen after a few moments. The only thing what one can do is to be prepared ourselves from the looming incidents. Moreover, mistakes shouldn’t be taken as a sign of stop; it ought to be rather used as guidelines. The problem is how far we have been prepared ourselves from those mistakes and how far we have learned from those avoidable episodes – is the matter of discussion.
It was just right after the November 11, 2008 Mumbai incident, people across the country stood up and voiced in a single platform that the country needed a strong government and strong leader who could defend the country from terrorists’ activities. The incident was one of the most horrible kind of terrorists attacks in a nuclear powered country, where nearly 200 people were massacred in a continued four-day mayhem by just two 10 individuals. The incident also ushered a new black era in the history of post-independent India. The country realised that it was the time to wake up and pushed for a free-terror country.
The fateful episode not only brought to change the chief minister of the state of Maharashtra it also forced to remove the guard of the Central government. The Congress-led UPA government had abruptly removed the then Home Minister Shivraj Patil (now the Governor of Punjab) from the post. And within hours, a new dynamic, a man of word, Mr P Chidambaram was anointed to handle the charge of Home portfolio. Many believed that his no-nonsense approach, his integrity in handling issues and his pro-activeness would bring smiles to the hearts of the millions.
For the past few months, the situation was relatively calmed and seemed to return to the normalcy. Unfortunately, now the ghost of terrorism has started haunting Mr P Chidambaram.
Look at the following charts:
April 13, 2009: 10 Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists.in Orissa’s Koraput district
April 22: Maoists hijacked a train with at least 300 people on board in Jharkhand and force it to Latehar district before fleeing.
May 22: Maoists killed 16 policemen in the jungles of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra.
June 13, 2009: Maoists launched two landmine and bomb attacks in a small town close to Bokaro, killing 10 policemen and injuring several others.
June 16: Maoists killed 11 police officers in a landmine attack followed by armed assault. In a separate attack, four policemen were killed and two others seriously injured when Maoists ambush them at Beherakhand in Palamau district.
June 23, 2009: A group of motorcycle-borne armed Naxal rebels opened fire on Lakhisarai district court premises in Bihar and free four of their comrades including the self-style Zonal Commander of Ranchi.
July 18: Maoists killed a villager in Bastar and in a separate incident torched a vehicle engaged in road construction work in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
July 23: A 40-year-old tribal killed by Maoists at Ettapalli taluka in Gadchiroli district.
July 27: Six persons killed when Maoists trigger a landmine blast at Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh.
July 31: A special police officer and another person killed by Maoists in Bijapur district.
Sep 4: Maoists killed four villagers in a forest in Aaded village in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district.
Sep 26: Maoists killed BJP MP from Balaghat Baliram Kashyap's sons at Pairaguda village in Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh).
Sep 30: Maoists set ablaze Gram Panchayat offices at Korchi and Belgaon in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
Oct 8: 17 policemen killed when Maoists ambushed them at Laheri police station in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
Feb 15, 2010: 24 personnel of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) killed as Maoists attack their camp in Silda in West Midnapore district of West Bengal.
April 4: Maoists triggered a landmine blast killing 11 security personnel of the elite anti-naxal force Special Operations Group (SOG) in Koraput district of Orrisa.
April 6: 75 CRPF personnel and a Chhattisgarh police official killed in a Maoist attack in Dantewada district.
May 8, 2010: 8 CRPF jawans were killed when Maoists blew up a bullet-proof vehicle in Bijapur district of Chhhattisgarh.
May 16: Around 50 CRPF jawans were killed by when Maoists blew up a bus at Dantewada district of Chhattishgarh.
Given the above facts and its brutality of the terrorists’ activities, there are ample arguments and questions that Chidambaram has to answer.
a). How long will he be a lovely ‘cowboy’ of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi?
b). Will he offer resign again just to please his boss?
c). Is he really a no-nonsense man which is widely presumed? Or Man or word?
d). Who is going to take responsibility – he or Mr Manmohan Singh or who?
e). Why was Mr Shivraj Patil forced to resign and why didn’t he say a single word?
f). Or otherwise is Mr Chidambaram a power hunger man, just looking for opportunity?
g). Why not Prime Minister or Sonia Gandhi speaks to him? Where are those intellectuals or so-called intelligentsias?
h). And finally, is Mr Chidambaram a really strong or good leader?
If he can’t answer these few questions, he is just another Shivraj Patil. Good Luck, Mr Home Minister.
But I still believe it's everybody's responsibility.

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