Uncivil protest earns nothing for people
Incidents of insulting high-ranking and even elderly personalities in the name of protest are increasing. Recently, India's Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was slapped in the face by an angry youth protesting against price hike of essentials and corruption.
We remember that a shoe was hurled at US President George W. Bush by an angry young journalist in Iraq, and even media tycoon Rupert Murdoch fell victim to this sort of attack.
In fact, some people do this to get media coverage. Perhaps every new attacker is inspired by the previous attackers who had got huge media coverage for doing that heroic (!) job. Possibly that is why the attackers, after being arrested by the law enforcers, tell loudly to the reporters that they are proud of doing this.
Sharad Pawar's attacker also said something like that and interestingly added that he was inspired by Anna Hazare. But everybody knows that Anna does not support uncivil and violent protests.
This is a bad trend and we must not let this uncivilised attitude develop.
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