Sunday, May 29, 2011

BJP wants President to reject Afzal Guru’s mercy plea as well!

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It says delay on Guru’s pleas harms the secular fabric of the country
G Vishnu / New Delhi / Tehelka.

Smruti Patnaik
Price of failure Afzal Guru, on the way to the court that gave him the death sentence.

The rejection of the mercy pleas of Devinder Pal Singh and Mahendra Nath Das by President Pratibha Patil on Thursday seems to have reminded the BJP of an issue it seemed to have forgotten. The party returned to the earlier rhetoric, demanding that the mercy plea of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru be rejected.

Guru's petition was first rejected by the Supreme Court on August 4, 2005. The second petition was rejected on May 14, 2008. “If terrorist Afzal Guru had managed to enter Parliament [on September 13, 2001], the entire political leadership would have been killed,” said BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad. “Doesn't deliberate, conscious delay of decision on Afzal Guru amount to destruction of the secular fabric [of the country]?” he asked, connecting the issue to Clause 3 of the Communal Violence Bill.

Issues of this nature should not be politicised.  Delaying decisions amount to delaying justice, willfully.  As Afzal Guru has waged against India and almost succeeded in eliminating our Political Leaders in Parliament, he should be hanged, without any considerations.

Presidential pardons should be given to those who have done a crime of passion but not those who schemed against nation.

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