chanakyaa wrote:
Few questions. Does the job of citizens (read Hindu) stop at the voting booth? Does shantidoots have sole claim on exploiting Indian legal system? Looking at UP riots from last week. The riot management was pathetic for $3 trillion economy country. Police do not have sufficient equipment to fight and protect itself. What right does state or central agency have to put ill-equipped police in a situation where his/her head can be smashed by stone pelters? Things probably work that way, but why can't hindus/families/injured/interest groups etc. file hundreds/thousands of FIRs and put state/central government under spotlight? Do you enough complaints/legal cases were filed by citizens or citizen groups during/after farm protest because they were impacted (either personally, professionally, economically)? Before the NS episode happened, how many hindus brought cases or fought against individuals, firms, bollywood for insulting hindu traditions, scriptures, gods, symbols? Just some examples come to mind where people can put up fight...
I'm not a lawyer and recognize that the legal system is messy, but why can't the 80% (population of 1 billion) figure it out? If you are 80%, can you not try to bring your ruling govt to knees using all existing means instead of complaining? My point is that beyond the threat of voting and shooting videos of stone pelter from terrace, I'm sure there are multiple ways people can put their 56D leader and his govt. (pick yr hated minister) in center on spot. Bring the effing legal system to a halt with case load if needed. If hizzoners can open business at midnight, I'm 80% can figure out how to take their pound of flesh without helplessly looking at the govt. If Jaipur Dialogue can collect 25 lakhs to translate Fatawa al-Alamgir, why can't a population of 1 billion can figure out ways to collect money for legal of Hindu causes?
So in essence we should continue to vote for a party that doesnt satisfy you, continue to support a govt that doesn't do its job, but continue to pay taxes of all kinds while getting little/nothing in return, spend your remaining time and money forcing the govt to do its job through a blind/deaf/dumb legal system that runs its own show. Or start an NGO to try and band aid govt's failures.
Why not? While we are at it, let all able men take sanyaas and dedicate their lives to the nation like our worthies. In one generation there will be no problem or nation left.
As soon as a "sadharan purush" like me questions what the govt - elected thanks to my vote- is doing and threatens with withdrawal of support, we get these condescending lectures.
A citizen is free to do anything unless expressly forbidden by the law. And a citizen is NOT obliged to do something unless expressly required/imposed by law. He has expressly given up certain important rights and entrusted them to the govt so that he need not bother with exactly the kind of activism you are suggesting, instead he can get on with his life as he pleases, as a painter, carpenter, teacher, doctor, priest, farmer, scavenger, whatever... pursue his dreams for himself, his family & near'n'dear.
An elected govt is NOT free to do anything unless expressly mandated/required/imposed by law. And an elected govt IS OBLIGED to do and deliver on the responsibilities entrusted to it by the sovereign people's mandate and administer on people's behalf and apply laws duly voted by people's representatives in the parliament, without fear or favour, and in a timely manner. The govt has no other job than this. Its supplied with virtually unlimited means (including printing fiat money) to do this job. Its infrequently held accountable for overstepping the law itself, and almost never held accountable for not delivering results or for incompetence - the only exception being the periodic vote once every 5 years.
This is what "janata janardhan" - an expression our dear PM never misses to repeat in the parliament - really means. The govt is beholden to the people, not the other way round.
And you want us to erase these fundamental and necessary borders and distinctions between citizen and govt, and take on even more on our plate and ourselves produce the additional means required to do it. Waah !
The call to self defense is not a favour we are doing to the govt - but its a desperate measure of survival and self preservation so that the risk of getting stoned, stabbed, raped, killed etc each time I say something, my wife or daughter does anywhere, or my son wears a tilak and goes to any part of this Bharat etc - is kept under check. Because a culture, however great or ancient, will thrive only when its people are alive and live without fear.
Its a shame that hindus have to menace a so called hindutva vaadi govt of withdrawing support to get it to do what it is mandated, enabled, trusted and required to do.
The shame is not on us, but on the govt. Please dont try to inverse the two and ask "why are you not doing more".
Like the Telugu saying goes "why do I need a barber if my husband was alive..."