Only noise

VHP, unchecked

• It’s simply unacceptable that VHP and Bajrang Dal activists are perpetrating acts of violence to prevent the screening of Salman Khan’s latest film. Threatening owners of multiplexes screening the movie and vandalising public and private property is no way of protest, especially when doing so is also harming many other individuals’ interests. Given that we have a credible judicial system to decide crime and punishment, presupposing the guilt and acting in such a manner is nothing but criminal. Why can’t state authorities act against these hoodlums?

— Gaurav Dua Delhi

Lauh Purush!

• Apropos of ‘Advani gets time, but RSS won’t wait for long’ (IE, July 18), it’s tragic that a man like L.K. Advani, who loves to call himself Lauh Purush (Iron Man) is now become a Bhagna Purush (Broken Man). What is yet more tragic is that the man who has been so articulate in his opposition to the Emergency, is now unable to speak out his mind in his own party.

— Bidyut K. Chatterjee Faridabad

Younger parties

• It is sad that a man of the stature of Advani clings to power. Did we not hear often from the BJP that they stood only for service in public life?
The world is changing fast and we must change with it. The need of the hour is that younger people are brought forward to steer the country and that there is inner democracy in all parties.

— Arvind Kumar Patna

Shifty leaders

• Advani’s ship is sinking and you can see the rats deserting it. Even his political enemies are surprised by the sudden vituperation against him by some BJP leaders. Leaders who grovelled before him yesterday are aiming pot shots at him. The BJP is truly a party with a difference — infested with disloyal and opportunistic leaders. This episode also shows that this party has no independent policies and programmes and that the RSS is its boss.

— Sachdi Nanda New Delhi

The rights wallahs

• This refers to Bikram Jeet Baira’s ‘Dangerous amendment to IPC on the cards?’ (IE, July 15). The abolition of the death penalty would pacify human rights activists but imprisonment for whole life might create more problems.
The same human rightists would then fight for provision of guest houses in jails where life prisoners could spend some time with their spouses or a right to parole, to rape and kill some more. For human rightists, the victims and their family members have no rights which need protection.

— Dalip Singh Ghuman Chandigarh