Whatever else, we have a decisive President in Pranab Mukherjee! Afzal Guru’s is the second hanging that he cleared – the first being Ajmal Kasab.
The earlier President, Pratibha Patil of silk saris and phoren jaunts – and her husband’s murder case as well as several chhota mota controversies, all showing her negatively – was a bad joke. She ‘didn’t have time’ to touch the appeals of those sentenced to death and then, she became an angel of mercy!
She gave Presidential pardon to 30 convicted and waiting to be hanged.
These thirty had barbarically murdered 60 women and children! One of them had brutally killed a child of six. Two others had gang raped and murdered the 10 year old daughter of a jailor on the prison premises! In another case, two persons had killed five members of a family and sexually assaulted the 15-year-old daughter of the family. I have two questions if this was Pratibha Patil just being against capital punishment on principle.
One: Why has she never expressed this view in any article / seminar / speech / interview?
Two: Why did she keep the files undecided for 28 months?
As it is, the legal procedure is very long and in case of capital punishment, longer. And that, in some way, is our strength too.
But the indecisiveness of the Presidents in such vital matters is unpardonable.
It is also clear that, a year before the elections, Congress is jittery.
Steps are being taken to woo the people and to blunt the criticism of the opposition.
Hindu Right Wing organizations and political parties were always demanding the hanging of Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru. Well, that issue is over.
This year will see many more gifts, many promises from UPA.
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