Blunt question from Delhi on atrocities against women in Manipur?

From the point of view of national security, the entire country is agitated after the incident of two women being paraded naked in Manipur, one of the seven sister states of the North-East, which is sensitive to national security. From the government and the opposition to the Supreme Court, the incident has been strongly condemned. Everyone has called it a shameful incident for the country. But the biggest and burning question here is whether our people’s representatives and the head of the Supreme Court were eagerly waiting for this shameful ‘heart-rending’ incident!

The question is also whether before this, even bigger and heart-wrenching incidents have not happened in different states of this country? And if they have happened, then what has been the role of our public representatives and administrative officials after that, how the court has taken those incidents on the test of law and taking suo motu cognizance or what punishment has been given to the culprits of the registered cases, the countrymen have every right to know about it. That’s why the central government and the state governments should issue a white paper on this issue. The country should be told by issuing advertisements in newspapers and other media that in which case it has taken strict punitive action and if it has not been able to do so, then what has been its reason?

There is no doubt that no one can be allowed to play with ‘women’s pride’ and those who do so should be given the harshest punishment without delay. But we should never forget that as long as we keep forgiving those who trample on ‘human dignity’ due to political, administrative and other reasons, such unexpected incidents will keep on changing their nature! And this civilized society, after making hue and cry for a few days, will return to the same pattern, which is considered to be a primitive tendency of this country.

Therefore, today the biggest need of the nectar period of freedom is to identify the social discontent that has arisen due to constitutional reasons and clearly identify the politicians, administrative officials, jurists and media heads who are inciting it, and equally cancel their entitlements, because their direct or indirect role behind all the unexpected events of the country is often found to be questionable! Whether they are aware of it or not, their roles are discussed in the public domain. Perhaps this is a perverse effect of a constitutionally divided society.

I have no qualms in saying here that our constitution maker turned out to be a top-class ‘Kalidas’ (a fool!), who transplanted the ideological poison (reservations, minorities etc.) of inequality based on caste, religion, language, region and gender apart from equal voting rights, and after 75 years, it has become a giant poison tree and continues to challenge our social and communal harmony. are. …..and we have become so incompetent that we are not able to stop them, but only seem to be able to shed crocodile tears!

That’s why today ‘Marmahat Rashtra’ is calling that ‘majority-based democracy’ should be abolished and ‘consensus democracy’ should be promoted, so that this country and society, which are becoming uncontrollable administratively, can be controlled. Incidents of ethnic, communal and electoral violence-counter-violence can be stopped. Our political institutions, administrative institutions, judicial institutions and media establishments as well as market and business houses should be made so capable that instead of fulfilling narrow political interests, they find constitutional solutions in the broad interest of the nation and in the long-term interest of every Indian.

If they feel the need, then create an atmosphere for constitutional amendment, and in the same way, pay tribute to every constitutional article or provision, which snatches the rights of other Indians in any form or irritates them. Because today the situation is getting complicated day by day because this system has got used to looking at the question of law and order and administrative system from political point of view, due to which the majority of the people of the society are benefited, but the oppression of the minority people has become a common thing.

Here the word minority does not mean any religion, but the reduction in village-locality or regional numbers and administrative failure to protect them is the fundamental reason for the increase of all contradictions. On the contrary, in every field, a vicious group is found, less in number but economically and intellectually rich, who have been playing such disgusting games from behind the scenes, on which no one can believe suddenly! To be honest, such people create people of criminal tendency for personal interest, give them protection. In my opinion, the local administration has a huge responsibility in identifying them and punishing such elements.

However, the experience generated by discussion shows that due to political and other reasons, the administration also shies away from its fundamental responsibility of taking prudent action here. This is the reason why when small things take a formidable form after getting fierce public support, our administration also brushes it off by calling it mob lynching. Therefore, until this democracy does not ensure the accountability of people’s representative, administrative, judicial and media, does not ensure the time period for disposal of each case, it is difficult to establish a happy and peaceful society, which is considered as the first condition to be called India.

To put it bluntly, whether the incident is big or small, it should never be viewed from a political point of view, rather it should be judged from an administrative point of view. After breakdown of law and order, there should be a clear administrative investigation as to who are guilty of the related incident and who are giving protection to them, and the strictest action should be ensured against the culprits and their promoters, otherwise the morale of the people with the tendency of bullying will increase and they will sooner or later become the cause of social unrest. Therefore, the government should think for itself what is its achievement in the background of the approach presented here, if not, then why not, this is a big question!

Recently there has been a commendable comment from the Supreme Court that being a journalist is not a license to break the law. In view of this, he should also give a strong message to the people’s representatives or their disciples that being a member of political parties or being an elected people’s representative or being associated with them is not a license to crush your political opponents and in such cases the opposition government will not wait for the coming of the ruling party to take the strictest action against the ruling party, rather the law will take its own course. On the other hand, if negligence or connivance of the people associated with the executive comes to the fore in such controversies, then such people will be dismissed from their posts forever. Nothing less will be the punishment!

Now the question is whether the Members of Parliament and Legislature will make laws that shoot themselves in the foot, and if not, whether the Supreme Court is capable of giving them any clear direction in this regard. If not then what is the way left to stop such endless incidents? Because the anarchic democratic incidents happening in different parts of the country and the incidents affected by them are increasing day by day. Parallel to this, the administration of Uttar Pradesh has been continuously presenting this administrative example for 6 years that if administrative will power is strong then nothing is difficult in this country.

I believe that if there is political, social or electoral violence in a state, it is the primary duty of the Center to impose President’s rule there. Its tendency of judicial review is dangerous for democracy and if the court does so, it should also take the responsibility of preventing all subsequent violence. For example, the tendency of imposing President’s rule may have come to an end due to the court’s stand in the matters of President’s rule in recent decades, but allowing the state governments to remain autocratic despite incidents of continuous killings and people’s struggle in any state puts both the capability and judicial foresight of the central government in the dock.

This is because our ultimate goal should be peace and security, however it may be established! Delay in this shows administrative and judicial disqualification. In the current environment, we have to prove whether we are capable of ruling this country or not, because the suicidal caste and communal appeasement policy being promoted under the guise of the Indian Constitution is catastrophic. This puts the capability of the government in the dock. When the echo of the questions raised on the oppression of common people is heard far and wide and action is missing, then you can understand in which direction contemporary democracy is going! Perhaps towards that direction which we have seen-heard-understood in Afghanistan in recent years. Stop it if you can, otherwise history will repeat itself.

It is right that the Supreme Court directed the Central Government and the Manipur Government to take strict action immediately. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said “We are very distressed to see the video. I think it is time that the government really comes forward and takes action, because what is happening is totally unacceptable. We will give time to the government to act, after that nothing is done on the ground, then we will act.”

If seen, this stand of his is the need of the hour, but if he goes two steps ahead and sets up a SIT to investigate the popular public oppression of the last 75 years and the administrative and political role from its point of view, then it is certain that the future administrative and political role can be controlled, which seems to be unbridled these days. Everyone has the fear/fear of the court in contemporary democracy, it just needs to be used positively in the public interest. That’s why we have also put our point here without any hesitation, so that clear public opinion is maintained, real pressure on the government increases.

– Kamlesh Pandey

senior journalist and columnist