THE BATTLE between Anna Hazare civil society team and the government is taken now an ugly turn. Ahead of the proposed fast against corruption by the 74-year-old Gandhian, Delhi Police prevented him from going to JP Park for protest. Other prominent activists Arvind Kejriwal alone Kiran Bedi were also taken in custody. People across the country have highly criticized the police action against civil society.
“It is very undemoccartic way of functioning government, is it still British rule or other?” said young supporter of Anna. “I will continous protest alongwith civil society until government come up with strong Lokpall Bill,” added another supporter.
There is wide gap between activists and the government due to failure of numerous talks and both sides are not ready to give up, which has forced Anna Hazare to take up this firm step of fasting. How is it justified in a democratic country like India to detain social activists to detain ahead of fast? Government should not be hampering the rights of people to express their opinion and opposing it in general manner.
“It is very undemoccartic way of functioning government, is it still British rule or other?” said young supporter of Anna. “I will continous protest alongwith civil society until government come up with strong Lokpall Bill,” added another supporter.
There is wide gap between activists and the government due to failure of numerous talks and both sides are not ready to give up, which has forced Anna Hazare to take up this firm step of fasting. How is it justified in a democratic country like India to detain social activists to detain ahead of fast? Government should not be hampering the rights of people to express their opinion and opposing it in general manner.
On other hand raising the voice against corruption is correct but it does not mean civil society adopts an unauthorized way. When government is ready for various conventions of negotiations to resolve the issue on strong Lokpall Bill then it is a wrong way to protest at this point. This is an age of reforming and globalization, one or two talks may fail but both sides should keep patience to come up with a positive solution. There are not only issues of corruption in the country; every second thing overlaps with it - for instance take the dowry system. Why doesn't anyone go on a fast on our dowry system, which is also a social evil and reservation issue?
Everything including Lokpall Bill is welcome but in a constitutional frame work. There is lots of reforming in progress may be it is on a low phase - but fasting and intimidating the government is not the right way to protest - it only shows weakness. It is visible that this UPA government will be voted out of power in the next elections; and there's no gurantee that the next government will be non-corrupt. It is best that people should put pressure on the government to bring about a systematic change in a democratic approach.
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