Again
we are told by our politicians that how pathetic our existence in this country is if
we are not in politics and the irony is that even intellectuals of our country
also think the same way.
All this Brouhaha
started with below two judgments from Honorable Supreme Court of India:
1. Politicians will forfeit their
Legislative Seat as soon as they are convicted.
2. Any person in lawful custody (excluding
preventive custody) will be debarred from contesting election.
As a mango man I
have welcomed these judgments whole heartedly but got disgusted when I heard/saw
responses of political and intellectual class. They all give us extreme
examples and gray areas to strengthen their arguments that judgment by SC will be
used in vendetta politics. Most prominent points paraded in front of us:
1. What if higher courts overrun
conviction of a politician who has already lost his/her seat due to conviction?
2. What if police take away
somebody’s right of contesting election by arresting him/her on false charges?
Mother of all
argument is which we also heard during Lokpal debate:
3. Only legislative have powers to
decide on such matter and it is a judicial overreach by SC.
In India it is
so common for police to illegally detain people and give them third degree
torture to extract confession. It is also very common place knowledge that police, under
the influence of powerful people, implicate innocent poor people in false charges.
Clearly nobody
cares if we common people suffer from police atrocity but all politicians/intellectuals
will go to any length to protect interest of one politician.
For Eons SC is
asking Center and State to initiate police reforms so that our Police can
become more professional and live to up their duties which is to Protect and
Serve. Is this not a better time to bring much awaited Police Reforms so that
the argument of arrest due to vendetta politics is laid to rest. One Right +
another right will go a long away rather than killing one right with another
wrong.
But again there
is two India…one safe and secure India for Politicians/Bureaucrats and another
brutal and unsafe India for We, the people.
