Of the people, by the people and from the people – is perhaps the most popular definition of Democracy in India, has become a big question among generations. It is assumed so far that “people” referred here, ideally refers to all people, and not only privileged classes.
If we start with list of incidents after independence that shook the soul of democracy in India, it needs several days to express it, probably. No need to put much stress on mind, the recent and most shameful incident of Indian history – Crackdown of Satyagrah Andolan -2011. Midnight 5th June, 2011, thousands of people at Ramleela maidan, were beaten, squeezed and punished.
These people were punished because they dared to stand for the reason; a reason that made every Indian realized that Indian democracy is not more than puppet dance which fascinates at time of elections only. The moment anyone starts to talk about the incident, a flow of random question comes; who is ramdev ? What is his personal interest? Why he ran? Why people went there? Why illegal permissions for Yoga?
At the end, forcible and inhuman way to crackdown the ” Andolan “ has presented as a fascinated drama that was organized by Baba Ramdev (thug) for his personal interest only. People were dragged outside of Ramleela maidan irrespective of their age and genders. During midnight, the government suddenly noticed that Satygrah Andolan is heading at “Ramleela Maidan” by Ramdev, who took the permission for yoga only. This reason was enough for government to treat thousands of people like animals. Moreover, MCD reveals later that permission was taken for “Asthanng yoga” that includes Anshan and Tapasya.
Was government blind to see all the postures through all roads of NCR about Satyagrah Andolan. What stroked their head in the midnight? Was there any yoga event in the Hotel Claridges? Our government is willing to make peaceful conversations with Pakistan, a country that is proved as leader of terrorism many times. But why government is not willing to Baba Ramdev at least later for the issue? A rapist can move freely in India because of insufficient facts but now “Ahinsa followers” can be punished anytime without a reason. Why there was no need to send sufficient ladies police to deal with women at the venue. Justification for Democracy seems far, it questions even humanity now.
Democracy means for people when they claim that it is their own. It was proved, when thousands of people sacrificed their lives for Independence of India. Is it the true democratic and developed India that our true leaders imagined? First week of June 2011, took away the remaining ashes of trust in leaders of our country.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. By Abraham Lincoln
When India got Independent, the population was less than 70 crores and today the whole nation is more than 120 crores. If some people are excluded to favor corruption, assume 1 crore, even then number of people who can stand for the good cause is almost 100 times.
The meaning is changed “of the power, by the power, from the corruption”. Are we 120 crores people has stopped to even dream for again “From the people, by the people and for the people” country. To attain a state of democracy one has to discover how far we can go in a straight-line until the one is stopped.
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