Who the Hell are these Moral Policemen?????????

Have you ever thought that you will be stopped and threatened if you are walking with your girl friend or wife or even sister on the road? It sounds like this wont happen in a democratic country like India. But if you are thinking the same please think twice. Today if anyone can enter a pub and beat the youngsters who just go there for socializing then the roads are not too far away.

The incident that took place on 24 Jan 2009 was a slap on the face of the Indian democracy. Around forty men entered a pub in Mangalore and started assaulting physically the boys as well as the girls. Five girls were molested and beaten literally by these so called self appointed moral police. The goons of Sree Ram Sena attacked the pub in the bright day light and their atrocities were captured live on camera. More than a week has passed and different set of politicians and bureaucrats have sung a completely different line. So much so that they have issued a case against the pub saying hat it didn’t had licenses. The plea of the victims has been totally avoided and the question of who has given them the right has been left unanswered.

If this is something less than we have our own set of moral polices in Mumbai, the Shiv Sena. They have some problems with young couples celebrating the Valentine’s Day. In the past there have been incidents where they have man handled the young couples and in some cases forced them to marry each other or the girl is forced to tie a Rakhi on the guy’s wrist. This might be so very embarrassing and frustrating for anyone to do.

Ashok Ghelot, Chief Minister of Rajasthan says that he wants to ban the mall culture where girls and boys go hand in hand. Some one please tell him that the major business of the malls runs on these youngsters and not on the senior citizens like them.

Today the pubs, tomorrow it will be the malls, next the coffee shops and finally the roads. In short they want to convert a free and liberal India to an old fashioned one and want to curb the freedom of the youth in the name of Hindu culture and traditions. If their wishes are accomplished then there will be a taboo on people of opposite sexes walking together. Is this the free India we wanted? Does this idea stand relevant in today’s era? Isn’t it time up for these old politicians to step aside with their old bunch of rigid ideas?