{"id":15800,"date":"2012-02-23T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=15800"},"modified":"2012-02-23T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T18:23:06","slug":"baba-ramdev-ramlila-assault-supreme-court-calls-it-assault-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/02\/baba-ramdev-ramlila-assault-supreme-court-calls-it-assault-on-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Baba Ramdev Ramlila Assault: Supreme Court calls it “assault on Democracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"This Government in India may be unique in many ways.\u00a0 Specifically, the way Judiciary has had to step in to not just save democracy but even the country at times.<\/p>\n

In its latest remarks in the Ramlila Grounds attack on Baba Ramdev, the two Judge bench was pretty severe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe present case is a glaring example of trust deficit between the people governing and the people to be governed<\/strong>. Greater confidence needs to be built between the authorities in power and the public at large\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They are basically saying that the Government has lost right to govern and has no locus standii to lead in the democracy \u2013 since it no longer represents the wishes and decisions of the people it governs.<\/p>\n

To make it more clear, they further say:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe action demonstrated the might of the state and was an assault on the very basic democratic values enshrined in our Constitution\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is something that every citizen in the country should have learnt and appreciated stemming from the Baba Ramdev Attack \u2013 that their Constitutionally enshrined democratic rights have been trampled on.\u00a0 Baba Ramdev \u2013 or later Anna Hazare \u2013 are not \u201csome people out there\u201d, but you!\u00a0 If they, despite all the backing they got, were meted such a treatment because they dared to ask \u2013 imagine what awaits you when you are wronged.<\/p>\n

And wronged you are.\u00a0 Every Rupee that leaves the country to the Swiss Bank accounts of the corrupt, YOU are being plundered.\u00a0 It is YOUR kids whose future is at stake.<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t that clear to the people in the country is beyond my imagination.\u00a0 But somehow the people are ok with assaults on anyone as long as it is not their own family.\u00a0 Well, this approach will be suicidal very shortly.<\/p>\n

Reference link: Ramlila crackdown shows trust deficit between people & govt: Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Government in India may be unique in many ways.\u00a0 Specifically, the way Judiciary has had to step in to not just save democracy but even the country at times. 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