Is the country heading towards student unrest ?
Political upheavals against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) notwithstanding, more worrisome is the increasing number of students hitting the streets across states, to express solidarity with the students of the Jamia Milia Islamia and AMU protesting against the amended Citizenship Act. If students from IIT Kanpur and IIT Bombay have protested against the police violence, those from the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) and the University of Mumbai have denounced the central government over CAA and also the proposed National Register of Citizen (NRC).
S Sharma
Elected Lawyers Questioning Non-Elected Judges?
The Congress Party leaders are questioning the wisdom of the framers of the constitution of India by asking this silly question while raising political din about the CAB. Let them answer this simple question: were the constitution makers so foolish as not to know that elected representatives in independent India would be brilliant to intimidate the same “unelected judges” by their knowledge of law, even when they are on bail? They too had the privilege of having the legal luminaries to contribute to the making of the constitution. If they gave the power to the courts to declare a law null & void, they were more than well aware of the situation prevailing and likely to crop up in future as the country was going for a cabinet form of government in a democracy founded on popular vote for the first time. They were, by any standard, wiser than those politicians who grudge the unelected judges who send the elected leaders to jail under the constitution and Rule of law. Was the Constitution of India “communal” that some puny brains decided to introduce “secular” in the preamble? Was it not questioning the framers of the constitution? Was the Indian constitution “capitalist” that the word “socialist” was fastened to the preamble? Did it not amount to an insult to the makers of the Indian constitution? On CAB, “political reasons” are being debated. Carry on without forgetting local monopolist traders on the borders selling/buying hilsa, beef, rasogulla, fresh vegetables, cheap labour, trafficking, crime syndicates, fake Indian currency, modern slavery, rigging elections and organized crime. Those seeking reasons never raised their voice when atrocities were being perpetrated on those being sought to be protected. Not aware if the community in whose name opposition carries on the debate are being persecuted in Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.? For the sake of India, please stop indulging in dirty communal politics now or fear the wrath of the voters. Politicians are responsible for dividing the country and society. What do they want now ? ISIS to come to India and take it over without any resistance ?
M L Gupta
S Sharma
Elected Lawyers Questioning Non-Elected Judges?
The Congress Party leaders are questioning the wisdom of the framers of the constitution of India by asking this silly question while raising political din about the CAB. Let them answer this simple question: were the constitution makers so foolish as not to know that elected representatives in independent India would be brilliant to intimidate the same “unelected judges” by their knowledge of law, even when they are on bail? They too had the privilege of having the legal luminaries to contribute to the making of the constitution. If they gave the power to the courts to declare a law null & void, they were more than well aware of the situation prevailing and likely to crop up in future as the country was going for a cabinet form of government in a democracy founded on popular vote for the first time. They were, by any standard, wiser than those politicians who grudge the unelected judges who send the elected leaders to jail under the constitution and Rule of law. Was the Constitution of India “communal” that some puny brains decided to introduce “secular” in the preamble? Was it not questioning the framers of the constitution? Was the Indian constitution “capitalist” that the word “socialist” was fastened to the preamble? Did it not amount to an insult to the makers of the Indian constitution? On CAB, “political reasons” are being debated. Carry on without forgetting local monopolist traders on the borders selling/buying hilsa, beef, rasogulla, fresh vegetables, cheap labour, trafficking, crime syndicates, fake Indian currency, modern slavery, rigging elections and organized crime. Those seeking reasons never raised their voice when atrocities were being perpetrated on those being sought to be protected. Not aware if the community in whose name opposition carries on the debate are being persecuted in Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.? For the sake of India, please stop indulging in dirty communal politics now or fear the wrath of the voters. Politicians are responsible for dividing the country and society. What do they want now ? ISIS to come to India and take it over without any resistance ?
M L Gupta