Violent protests will always lead to loss of life of innocents and leaves tears and bereaved families behind.
Be it anti CAA Protests or farmers protests in MP of 2017 or even the recent one the final outcome has always been ; few deaths.
It appears that the leaders deliberately push their supporters into this violence for the furtherance of their own vested interests.
After each such incident, The Govts usually announce a compensation of few lakhs to the bereaved family members, a job to the NOK(Next of Kin) and opposition political party leaders get an opportunity to get some media glare.
However, unfortunately, the Leaders who pushed their supporters into resorting to violence have seldom been punished and never held accountable for the violence , more over they have no remorse also if few are killed.
Gandhiji, had called off the Non Cooperation movement immediately after the Chauri Chaura incident.
However, post independence, the leaders seldom displayed such sense of responsibility.
The moment the Leaders are held accountable for the violence, they will ensure discipline and make sure that the protests are held peacefully.
Turn a few pages of history and one would realize how disciplined we were in 1940s. Perhaps the Leaders then knew that if the protesters resort to any violence the British Police will not hesitate to use Force and if few get killed , the Govt will neither give any compensation nor any job to the NOK and as a result the whole movement will go for a toss, so they were responsible towards their Followers/ Supporters/Participants and hence gave NO OPPORTUNITY TO THE BRITISH POLICE TO USE FORCE.
But the Current Leaders have no such sense of responsibility towards their Supporters ; MAR GAYA TO MAR GAYA.
Although, there are numerous videos floating around and politicians are accusing each other for the violence that happened at Lakhimpur, but notwithstanding the above, this opportunity must be used by the Govt to ensure that Justice is done, guilty are punished and leaders are held accountable.
Unless the Leaders are held accountable for violence , these kind of violent protests will carry on and the law abiding citizen will continue to suffer.