It's always about the judgement. If all were allowed to do things their way.....
dada,
It is true that that I am not well clued up, that is the reason I am engaging in this debate to learn... usually I would press the thank button, and scroll because I am 100% agreement. Taking a different position is ease in to the narrative you are presenting.
All right. Let us start again.
With a one of the smallest law enforcement to civilian ratio, breakdown in law and order mechanism is inevitable, but saying that remember how most of Nodia district naxals were culled.
This is a fact; our police to population ratio is one of the lowest in the world. Add to that the very poor pay and the conditions of work, and biased recruitment favouring one section of society over another, and you have
- Lax, even negligent administration of the law (refusal to make an FIR, arrests of females outside daylight hours, failure to protect the privacy of the arrested, and all the thousand and one ways in which court directives are violated daily).
- Rampant corruption, since there are many things to be done, and enough staff only to do a handful, leading to the need to pay money to get work done rather than have it left undone for months on end.
- Complete protection and shelter of habitual criminals, with whom the benefits of crime are shared.
- Coming to order, one-sided responses to order-related issues, including siding with one side in a community dispute, punishing one side when a two-way clash occurs, suppression of violence done by a particular side against the other, in general, acting as an armed detachment of one side.
But if, on top of all this, politicians get involved, as they are increasingly getting involved, then the situation becomes not one reflecting a state governed by a constitution, but a state governed by a powerful faction within the people, who browbeat the rest of the people because of their control and manipulation of the law and order machinery, generally the machinery of the state, secure in the knowledge that nothing will happen to them, they can do what they want.
in my limited knowledge, let me try and understand, are you saying that because of this particular government (which is replica of previous NDA minus Modi), there is a sentiment that Fringe Hindu groups can do whatever they want? (or do a SS/MNS type action which they have been doing irrespective of their electoral position of the power in the center) - Is that what you are saying? -
Please see my section above yours. Please say what you think I am saying, in response to your questions.
If yes, what action/steps should be undertaken for damage control, or atleast avoid such incidences in future?
The leader selected by the nation, Modi, should publicly denounce breaches of the law, incendiary speeches and statements, irresponsible catering to the gallery, post-facto support to law-breakers, minimising and down-playing criminal action as not being as bad as they might have been, or not being criminal at all, or being justified as a reaction to something someone else somewhere far away has done. That last is a recurring theme. Boko Haram does something in Chad, a Muslim gets kicked to death in Unnaon.
The leader has to say, without equivocation, that he does not like this. He cannot be a world class leader on one hand, and a weak, vacillating figure tacitly backing his Sangh Parivar goons on the other.
Can the Supreme court of India, direct the center to take actions if the center according to you is already compromised?
No. Only in some particular matter which has come to it, and which is judiciable. It cannot pass an order that asks for acting in good faith; it can only pass an order asking for proof that action has been taken in good faith.
But that is what I am trying to say, majority of India cannot be held responsible for some fringe elements that rioted or, killed someone - and these are not a new development. These as$holes have been doing that for a long time.
The difference is that there is a dynamic, powerful leader who has been forceful in his public utterances. If he comes to a matter of the kind that we are discussing, and suddenly becomes a mild-voiced, soft-hearted figure of inactivity, don't the arseholes get the message? and don't they and the police then do whatever they want to do without caring for the law?
If anyone is blaming all of India, it is perhaps - I do not know their minds, you have to ask them - because India seems to taking the side of an inactive leader, a biased political support system, and a one-sided constabulary.
India did not vote for Modi- for some mythical Hindu Rashtra, India voted for him for very simple issues, like inflation, rising prices, better roads, better schools, better governance, strong leadership, better economy. That is what they ran on, from
@Joe Shearer 's comments it is extremely worrying that people in India are feeling that government is complicit in this non-sense, which I pray and hope not.
Yes, precisely so, but they are behaving as if it was an election which empowers their communal agenda, rather than an election that gave them a mandate to revitalise the economy. There is more activity on the Muslim-bashing front, with front-line politicians encouraging the bashing, and top level leadership reacting with indifference, even with mockery.
SP in UP is nothing less devious than the most heinous bollywood villains, which complicates the issue quite a bit. Maybe I am mixing issues, but there is more than what is seems in simplistic evaluations of what has been happening.
In UP, the lunatics are running the asylum.
