The specialty of democracy is that dissatisfied groups have the confidence to resolve their grievances through democratic and judicial process. The result of this belief being shaken is always unpleasantly unwanted.
Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that democracy in the country is now only in memories. Among the factors he bases his statement on are the lack of debate in Parliament, the perceived control of the government over all institutions that secure the democratic process, and the lopsided attitude of the mainstream media. A day later, Rajya Sabha MP and senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who has left the Congress, said that now there is no hope of getting justice from the judiciary. He expressed his frustration in a speech while mentioning in detail the internal process of the Supreme Judiciary. Meanwhile, the opinion has been deepening in the civil society that the present government does not listen to the people’s movements. Right now there is a mass movement for local autonomy in Manipur. It is reported that instead of starting any dialogue process with the agitators, they have adopted their well-known methods of suppressing the movement. A similar attitude of power has been seen in the context of the anti-citizenship law movement to the violence against farmers and the Agneepath scheme.
The demand of the farmers’ movement to withdraw the three agricultural laws was accepted by the government, but their demand to make a law to guarantee the minimum support price and repeal the electricity bill has been rejected. With this, farmers are trying to take to the streets once. Complaints are also frequently raised from various quarters that the law enforcement machinery in the country is functioning in a unilateral manner. There is a clear difference in their behavior towards opposition groups and the ruling party and its sympathetic organisations. These complaints have now spread to such an extent that leaders belonging to the mainstream parliamentary political parties have started talking about the end of democracy in the country. Clearly this is a dangerous situation. The specialty of democracy is that dissatisfied groups have the confidence to resolve their grievances through democratic and judicial process. This maintains the state of peace and progress in the society. The result of this belief being shaken is always unpleasantly unwanted.
