Point to Ponder: ------------------- When Modi talks about ‘India first’ as his idea of secularism, he negates the special protections for weaker sections and minorities enshrined in the Indian Constitution at the altar of his idea of majoritarian good. When he calls himself a ‘Hindu nationalist’, he annuls the political consensus of separation between state and church. When he allows Amit Shah to describe the 2014 Lok Sabha polls as a tool of revenge or gives free rein to the likes of Yogi Adityanath, he discards the idea of equal justice and equality before law. Whether it is the act of denying the Congress the position of leader of the Opposition or belittling his own cabinet by centralising powers in his own hands or preventing Gopal Subramanium from being appointed an apex court judge, the Modi government, in instance after instance, has undermined the institutionalised tradition of inclusive, participatory and argumentative democracy.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 15:24:00 +0000
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