Rahul Gandhi's defensive 'I-didn’t-do-it, my grandmother was assassinated' response has brought a three-decade-old calamity back, centre stage in his most important election campaign yet.
We have failed terribly at two important things. One, we are reacting to this issue only emotionally, not logically. And two, we are not asking the right questions.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
1. First day of the New Year is not a good day to write about ugly, violent events of the past. But manner in which former Congress MP misused all his political connections and prevailing legal system to remain free for as many as 34 years after innocent Sikhs were mercilessly killed in Delhi and other places is a sad reminder of flaws in our police administration and legal framework. 2. It has been pointed by legal fraternity that Justice Ranganath Misra Commission (which was entrusted with job of fact finding regarding the anti-Sikh riots) did not do its job in an unbiased and professional manner. In fact there was suppression of facts by the Ranganath Misra Commission. 3. It is a matter of national shame that all these facts had been buried in dirty politics of the Congress party. Now that former MP Sajjan Kumar has surrendered after he was awarded life imprisonment, we citizens should not lose sight of facts. 3. Is there a guarantee that Sajjan Kumar will not get a stay of the High Court order of life imprisonment in the Supreme Court? 4. We as citizens wish to know from legal experts who are not attached to any legal party what needs to be done urgently to ensure that no criminal case, particularly against a politician, drags on and on for years, making a mockery of our judicial system. 5. Incidentally, I wish to say that the way our politicians work, our Courts work, our judicial system works, and way we citizens react to delays in judicial processes, I think are all matters of disgrace. What do we wish to do to save our democracy from adverse impact of such delay?
1. First day of the New Year is not a good day to write about ugly, violent events of the past. But manner in which former Congress MP misused all his political connections and prevailing legal system to remain free for as many as 34 years after innocent Sikhs were mercilessly killed in Delhi and other places is a sad reminder of flaws in our police administration and legal framework. 2. It has been pointed by legal fraternity that Justice Ranganath Misra Commission (which was entrusted with job of fact finding regarding the anti-Sikh riots) did not do its job in an unbiased and professional manner. In fact there was suppression of facts by the Ranganath Misra Commission. 3. It is a matter of national shame that all these facts had been buried in dirty politics of the Congress party. Now that former MP Sajjan Kumar has surrendered after he was awarded life imprisonment, we citizens should not lose sight of facts. 3. Is there a guarantee that Sajjan Kumar will not get a stay of the High Court order of life imprisonment in the Supreme Court? 4. We as citizens wish to know from legal experts who are not attached to any legal party what needs to be done urgently to ensure that no criminal case, particularly against a politician, drags on and on for years, making a mockery of our judicial system. 5. Incidentally, I wish to say that the way our politicians work, our Courts work, our judicial system works, and way we citizens react to delays in judicial processes, I think are all matters of disgrace. What do we wish to do to save our democracy from adverse impact of such delay?