Democracies Don’t Run on Dictation They Run By Self-Representation

This is a ploy to dis-credit the government and state, parliament, Supreme Court, all other government institution and in a word the whole democracy. If Anna and his Civil Society don’t trust so many institutions of democracy then why should we trust him and individuals around him? What he wants to say is this that all the state (government) is corrupt therefore we should give it to private sector. The Media understands it well and that is why it has been highlighting Anna’s crowed a movement. This is just a collection of Urbanites who always rush to faceless enemy. But they will never come for social justice in which they see their casteist face.

Dalits and poor have only hope from the government and democracy because they have got something from it only. If there were no democratic institutions Dalits would have got anything. Look at the composition of Indian Civil societies and Private Sector. They have not included any Dalits at any level. So how this Lok Pal Bill will be good for Dalits?

Look at the symbols they have used ‘Bhara Mata’ why not Buddhist, Islamic, Christian, Sikhism, etc. symbol. That means what is Brahmanic Hinduism is Bhartiya or Indian. This is Hindu hegemony. Secondly look Shanti and Peasant Bhooshan they are father and son team. Is this not dynastic? You did not get any one else to form the five member committee to discuss the clauses of the proposed Bill.

Thirdly, there is no women, minority and Dalit member in the five member committee formed to negotiate the Lok Pal Bill. All are upper caste male. So they do not have any sensitivity for the gender, caste and religious diversity which exists in Indian Society.

Above all Babasaheb also argued that we should not resort to unconstitutional means for our demands. We should first go to the constitutional means if that are exhausted then we can go for these type of blackmailing.

Gandhi used this blackmail against Babasaheb against separate electorate. Democracy cannot be dictated by few self-appointed leaders. They don’t trust 542 MPs who are elected by billions of people. But they are telling us to believe that we should trust these five people with backing of certain urban people. Therefore we cannot say that this was a social movement which is good for the society in general and Dalits, Minorities and women in particular.

Please Watch this programme on NDTV INDIA

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Dr. Vivek Kumar
Associate Professor
Centre for the Study of Social Systems
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi – 110 067

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