ALL OPPOSITION PARTIES ARE DYING AT THE ALTAR OF PEOPLE JUST DUE TO LOSS OF FAITH OF PEOPLE IN OPPOSITION – A SAD DAY AS IT WILL MAKE RULING PARTIES AND PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES TO BEHAVE ARBITRARILY AGAINST PEOPLE – LORD MACAULAY SAID,’DEMOCRACIES WILL DEGENERATE FINALLY INTO DICTATORSHIPS’, IF NOT DULY FREEDOM OF PEOPLE IS JEALOUSLY PROTECTED BY PARTIES AND FOR WHICH YOU HARP UPON STRONG OPPOSITION TO STAY ON’ - PEOPLE ARE SELF CENTERED AND DO NOT BOTHER WHETHER DEMOCRACY OR DICTATORSHIPS ARE THERE?

(By Dr. G.BALAKRISHNAN, PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECILIST WRITER – A FORMER AFP CORRESPONDENT)
Lord Penzance said - ‘Procedure is but the machinery of law after all – the channel and means whereby law is administered and justice reached. It strangely departs from its proper office where in place of facilitating, it is permitted to obstruct and even to extinguish the legal rights and is made to govern where it ought to subserve’. That way Constitution of a country is written, leaving a little space for latter people in power not to misuse by constitutional changes, that way is our Indian Constitution is made of, just to ensure democracy survives longer than normal life term – Americans achieved in their democratic constitution of 17th century!. So too Britain (present UK) by their parliamentary democracy in a unwritten Constitution, as most English go by path of rule of law, whatever the situation is.
It seems in India, of late Rule of law is causality. Parliament went on amending the basic constitution, on flimsy reasons. So Lord Mansfield said, ‘Law would be a strange science if it is rested solely upon cases.’
Problems increased in India after the constitution was amended to provide ‘Reorganization of States’. Yes you created so many states. It may appear to be needed but truly speaking it created more and more problems in governance of the country, just because every state stared questioning the propriety of Indian Constitution, and hence Supreme Court has to intervene several times, like CJI Sabharwal, in a constitutional bench struck down most of statutes brought under Schedule IX of the Constitution, just because parliamentarians due to pressure from their state legislatures never wanted Judiciary to strike down the strange statutes, just to subserve interest groups, contrary to principle of equality of law.

See now union minister of telecom Raja does not want to resign though it is a settled law, that a CBI enquiry is instituted on a ministry for any charges, just to see investigations smoothly proceed. His Party no doubt made money through Spectrum allocations due to this man’s earlier ministership in the previous government from 2004-09, when 2001 rates for licenses were fixed but in 2009 this man grants the same 2001 prices to bidders without taking care of national interests, by simply saying PM’s tacit support is there, which clearly shows this minister is for some personal gain at the cost of the Nation, amounting to a loss of Rs.60, 000 crores loss to National Exchequer. His action itself is surely against the National interest. See C M of T N Karunanidhi wants to protect this man, as he seems to be culpable, as alleged by a lot of opposition leaders.

So these kinds of activities by different political parties erode confidence of people all over India. Say UP CM Mayavathi and her activities will soon kill her party. So many regional parties, like NCP, Shiva Sena, and other splinters, and like this in very state, even BJP, CPI,CPM etc., lost credibility to cite a few, due to many parties’ sinning.

I cite a statement of a polit bureau member Bimal Bose of CPM ‘we are going wrong and the results are showing (in elections). Unless we set focus right, we will go downhill and the party will not allow that. Let the opposition do whatever it wants, but we know that the people are with us (some consolation art of statement). However we have noticed that at the grass roots level, there is total confusion and the masses are being fed wrong ideas. Our comrades have become too complacent.’

We all know they (CPM) had 32 years mandate in WB, IT HAS BECOME MOCKERY OF ITSELF. IT WAS BEING FURTHER HUMBLED IN parliament now with 16 Left MPs while Trinamool got 20MPs out of 42 MPs sent by WB. What do we call this situation as ‘waning’ or ‘waxing’? So too BJP fared in the latest Lok Sabha poll. All these are products of sinning by parties and direct impact is nation is losing strong opposition party to correct the ruling governments. Governments will soon become arbitrary so too the bureaucrats. You saw the other day at Nagpur chief commissioner of Income Tax is booked for disproportionate wealth by CBI.
All these again show how the parties are being shoed by people just because people are very much confused, as to what is happening, a very sad situation unless parties buckle up and cleanse themselves right earnest they will sooner or later just fade away into oblivion, again sad to very sad situation, is it not sirs!(Ends)