017. Religious fanatics in Kerala government promoting moral policing in schools.

Religious fanatics in Kerala government promoting moral policing in schools.

News: Dharma Sena divides teachers. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While the government has come up with new measures to spruce up moral values of school students, a majority of teachers fear that the initiative may lead to a 'licensed' group of moral police.
TNN | Jun 14, 2012, 10.45AM IST


 

The curse of Kerala is teachers not becoming education ministers, doctors not health ministers and engineers not public works ministers. Political parties do not prefer educated professionals to become party members, contest in elections and represent party in the state cabinets. As long as it does not happen, Taliban-inspired state ministers will, according to their religious agenda, try to bring about moral policing in schools and colleges. Is this state minister bold and committed enough to allow police enter campuses when law and order of this country is challenged there? A few anti-social elements are born with the inherent tendency to harass, intimidate and exploit students who are peacefully learning in the educational centres in the state, expose these sacred institutions to betrayal, hatred and violence and prepare way for terrorists to come and go freely in these sacred establishments of society. This decision by the state educational authorities is plainly religion-inspired and harm-motivated to constitute moral police wings in schools and colleges. When every other way to facilitate terrorist organizations’ tricks to invade Kerala were closed by the brilliant officers of Kerala Police and National Security Agencies, they came up with another plan to make the same thing possible by influencing and ordering politicians in their payroll to create administrative support for this idea. If properly inquired into, it can be proved that this idea was discussed and hatched in religious institutions. In Afghanistan 150 girl students were recently poisoned through drinking water by Taliban to prevent girls from getting educated. Here in Kerala also the same objective is aimed to be achieved by making campuses hell for decent and obedient students and girls can thereby be ordered to not go there. There are people behind this move who have perfect training to disrupt the tranquillity in Kerala’s social life. A few years back, there was this Arabi Nikkahu when the Arabis came to Kerala, gave money to poor parents who could not send away their daughters in marriage, married those little girls and spoiled them and when the Arabis had to go back after a few weeks, simply deserted them. It was safe prostitution disguised as marriage. When consciousness of Kerala roused against this, it stopped. Then came the Love Jihad from the same quarters when Hindu and Christian girls were systematically captivated by trained young men, given a child and abandoned in the expectation that such children born out of wedlock would be rebellious enough to join the ranks of terrorists when they grow up. Literate Kerala exposed this and police intervened in many places and it lost its speed. Then came the Moral Policing which was another word for blackmailed prostitution. When it was duly exposed it also waned. Now this state minister publicly approves the rightness of moral policing even in schools! Whom does he represent?

 

This is clear indication of the education department being run by the nervously broken down. It is strange to note that moral policing factions, who had been looking into the cultural, political and marital activities of people in the northern districts of Kerala, never looked into the most prominent feature of the social and political life in Kerala-corruption. Never once did they block a single government official or politician who is notoriously noted for corruption. They centred on man-woman relations in targeted families where they liked to see some kind of immorality which they could not make use of directly by blackmail. So they turned to moral policing, in strict imitation of the abhorrent Skimmetty Rides described in Thomas Hardy’s novels. This makes clear the source and inspiration for this wave of moral policing-bribery and corruption gangs that wanted to divert people’s attention away. And money offered by anti-national elements for causing disruption in social life was an added bonus. Corruption is the only field where some kind of policing is needed and no state minister in Kerala has ever come forward with a genuine formula, invention or scheme for blocking corruption. How can one deny one’s roots and lifeblood? If cricket bats and hockey sticks are going to the law enforcement tools for moral policing, what if acid bulbs and gas canisters are used by defenders? Taliban says they are moral police. Does the state education minister of Kerala who publicly support moral policing in schools deny that moral policing is Talibanism or Talibanism is moral policing in disguise? If police can’t curb social crimes using the national civil code and the criminal procedure code, or if the police force of the state has become too much of a hindrance and obstacle to law breakers, is it not legalizing moral policing in schools creating parallel policing, fulfillment of the long cherished dream of religious fanatics and outside-the-nation-terrorists? Political parties in Kerala have been doing this moral policing through their goon gangs the last of which was conducted at Onchium village in North Kerala, resulting in the manslaughter of a rebel communist party leader. In whatever name moral policing is called, it is violation of criminal procedure code, something to be booked under. No one has the right to teach others what is right and what is wrong, unless he violates something that is proved as violation by a constitutional body and also no one has the right to monitor a student or a teacher or a parent unless warranted by an act of suspected crime. Privacy of neither a child nor a grown up man shall not be violated by hr new goons. Even cabinet ministers, parliament members, diplomats and Supreme Court judges are charged with sexual harassment, seduction and rape. Who are these clean people of Kerala the education minister and education department are going to constitute the Moral Police Force or Dharma Sena or whatever it is called, with?

 

Students and parents policing in schools, substituting state police is absurd which would lead only to lawlessness in schools and later in society. This idea ought to have been nipped in the bud. Instead, it was given official support. Educational authorities who want to stamp their marks on something they can claim was introduced during their reign are diverting students’ and parents’ attention away from learning. Instead of caring his own son and daughter why should a parent look into the affairs of another man’s son and daughter? If each parent looks into and watches the activities of his son and daughter, no policing would not at all be needed in schools. So this Kerala Education Department’s decision to introduce moral policing in schools is a stunt, aimed at pleasing the frustrated mullahs and clergymen who want to let loose their goons in schools also. It is a church and mosque-originated idea, aimed at creating turmoil in schools and preparing way for infiltration of terrorist groups into academic centres. Today or tomorrow, these parent and student goons joining school police would eventually find their way to the recruiting centres of religious fanatics and terrorists. Who is qualified to police another’s morals? Where there is moral violation resulting in immoral conduct, there are Indian laws to curb them. Need or demand for moral policing is a sign of police failure in the country. Let us take the example of the professional courses in colleges which are now admitted into after receiving huge amounts as capitation fees and donation which means the admitted students will have money and would want to do a little flirting or even rape in the campus. Because they paid money to the management, the principals would fear to report their crimes in the campus to the police, fearing that reporting such incidents would displease the management who in their turn fear that rich students would not again be attracted to their colleges. It is rich students who bring the much sought after revenue, not poor obedient scholars. Rich parents know that venting the excessive sexual fascinations of their sons and daughters through normal channels available in college is good for them even at the cost of the chastity and lives of poor students in the name of ragging. They prefer not to have police interference so they influence and order ministers in cabinet to come up with this idea of introducing moral policing in campus, knowing in advance that it would be them, having contributed much, who would be the members of this moral police force. Moreover, the argument that ‘we have already introduced self-policing in colleges’ would somewhat weaken the aggressive opposition against ragging. This is just the trick of immensely rich parents and money hungry managements to evade police interference when incidents of ragging and rapes occur in colleges. The state’s educational authorities are only their slaves, paid for the work done.