{"id":20764,"date":"2012-12-24T20:25:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T02:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=20764"},"modified":"2012-12-24T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T02:25:10","slug":"delhi-police-commissioner-brushes-off-injured-protesters-as-collateral-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/12\/delhi-police-commissioner-brushes-off-injured-protesters-as-collateral-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Police Commissioner brushes off injured protesters as “Collateral Damage”!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

After the Police attacks and imposition of Section 144 on Central Delhi areas, now the Police Chief of Delhi comes and puts salt in the wounds of Delhi-ites who protested.<\/p>\n

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Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar at the News Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere is always collateral damage<\/strong> in a crackdown,\u201d Delhi Police commissionerNeeraj Kumar told a TV channel on Monday, referring to the scores of innocent people and mediapersons who got injured in Sunday\u2019s police lathicharge on protesters.<\/p>\n

The police chief refused to apologize for the Sunday\u2019s action by his force but said he regretted that innocent persons had got hurt in the lathicharge.\u00a0 \u201cIf an innocent person has come to harm, I apologize. I feel sorry for that. But I do not apologize for what the police did there.<\/strong> I do not concede that we mishandled the situation,\u201d Kumar told CNN IBN. (link<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is bad enough that the Police Chief, and other leaders weren\u2019t there to talk to the protesters, it is even worse that the Government and the Delhi Police is taking even more aggressive and nonsensical stances!\u00a0 Honestly, how is this attitude ANY different from that of the rapists?<\/p>\n

There has been a lot of talk of \u201chooligans\u201d who had hijacked the whole thing.\u00a0 Another thing that is mentioned is that the opposition \u2013 like Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s party and BJP \u2013 were trying to \u201ccapitalize\u201d on the protests by supporting them.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that convenient?\u00a0 What the heck do you expect the opposition parties to do, if not keep the Government\u2019s wayward ducks in a row?\u00a0 Anybody would support the protesters.\u00a0 In fact even the PM should have come and sat with the protesters!\u00a0 Ditto for Sonia Gandhi!<\/p>\n

When the Corruption protests happened, at that time one didn\u2019t see these hooligans\u2026 a protest that was led by Arvind Kejriwal, his friend and ostensibly backed by BJP.\u00a0 How come theses parties are suddenly experts at the hooligan elements?<\/p>\n

The more I read the more I am convinced that the real story may be something like this:<\/p>\n

The protests have fueled a lot of anger, and the protests at Raisina Hill threatened to morph into anger against the Government while it was reeling at the loss in Gujarat.\u00a0 That this anger is going to be far bigger than what it started out with, was also sensed by the likes of Arvind Kejriwal and BJP.\u00a0 So they were planning to set the stage for a larger battle.\u00a0 This feedback was provided by the Intelligence Bureau to the Government.\u00a0 To obviate any repeat of the earlier issues, it clamped down on the protests in the most brutal style \u2026. YET again!<\/em><\/p>\n

This Government has completely lost it.\u00a0 It is insecure and shaky and that has made it brutal.\u00a0 Which is also true of those it hires at the helm in the most important places.<\/p>\n

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