Ather Moin
The reporters grudgingly filing the story of the departure of Haj pilgrims from the Haj Camp at Haj House, Nampally that the scene was a blissful and numinous, but the fact is that whatever happens there during the departure is very heart-piercing. Whatever is happening there if you describe it with cautious, at least we portrayed it as indecent. The political leaders are indulging in Whitechapel on the stage decorated for adieu to the pilgrims of Haj. The high profile leaders having political positions are invited to address the departure ceremony of pilgrims at Haj Camp. It seems that they are only praising their political bosses for their blessings upon them as an expression of Gramercy. The authorities of Haj Committee are also inviting the theologians and religious leaders to address the pilgrims, but it become as a custom. Even they are not seeing the happenings in the vicinity or they have no courage to admonish the political leaders and the Officials who are sitting behind them on the stage to check the ostentation. At the time of flagging of Pilgrims Bus, the political workers are scuffling each other to fit in the frames of cameras; if naughty children look them they will feel ashamed. This storm of tussle brings to calm when the photographers shut down their cameras. If you espy on the building and the walls of the Haj House no one will ready to suppose that it is the place from where the Pilgrims are departed for holy pilgrimage, but he will perceive that the election of the Agricultural Marketing Committee was just concluded. It seems that there is a competition and confrontation amongst the high profile leaders of ruling party. Hangings and banners are spotted everywhere in the vicinity. It is noticed that the political workers come here in the so called service of pilgrims when their political party rules the State and they decamp from the Haj House when their party loses the elections. Apart from that there is a silent group of youth, which every year serves the pilgrims with discipline. They neither come in the frames of the camera nor they use the food or drink meant for the pilgrims. Would to God that avoiding Pharisaic manner they serve the pilgrims only to please Allah.
