What can be unconstitutional about a yoga shivir (camp) coupled with a satyagraha (protest) to eradicate corruption? What is unconstitutional about a sanyasi or yoga guru raising issues that the political class should have addressed years ago? What is unconstitutional about fighting against corruption which has seeped deep into the power echelons and veins of the system? What is unconstitutional about a peaceful fast?
This wanton act of violence and shocking human rights abuse led by the Commissioner of Delhi Police, B.K. Gupta, raises questions of accountability of the Police force itself and its officers. The Police have emerged as an instrument to fulfill the demands of the political establishment, rather than to protect common people. Gupta has often been quoted as saying that the Delhi police are there to serve the people, “we are here for the people); then why did they instead choose to serve the politicians?
The shivir at Ramlila Ground was peaceful, well managed, with neatly laid out registration centers, calm streamlined crowds from across the country, raising slogans of Bharat Mata ki Jai.
Contrast this with the secessionist crowd at LTG Auditorium in the national capital on 21 October 2010. The presence of terrorists and separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy and other nation-haters, and the seditious speeches with cries to balkanize India were music to Delhi Police and its political masters. It did not stop here, as a demonstration to attack Parliament was also undertaken by the separatists and supporters.
Nationalists present there were roughed up, beaten and thrown out by not only the separatist supporters but also Delhi Police, even as venom against the country was poured by speaker after speaker. Police personnel present threw out people holding Indian flags and said they are there to protect the terrorists and separatists, as ordered by the Home Minister.
Protection to terrorists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, killer Yasin Malik, and torture and teargas to thousands of nationalists at Ramlila Ground.
Home Minister P Chidambaram finds nothing wrong in giving protection to terrorists and permitting their seditious speeches. Cries of “Hum kya chate - aazadi,” found him extolling the constitutional right to freedom of speech in India, though the fact was that it had clearly been violated.
Do Indian nationalist citizens have no right to freedom of speech as guaranteed under Art 19 of the constitution of India, or does the Union Home Ministry interpret it as applicable only to separatists and secessionists?
Chidambaram’s interpretation of freedom of speech is not the interpretation as given in the constitution, and it is time that his arrogance was checked by the same constitution. By ordering the barbaric inhumane actions of Delhi Police which comes directly under him, he has violated the very citizens he sits to protect in the Home Minister’s Chair. If the terror threat being made out by the Government to Baba Ramdev and the people was real in any sense, why was the Union Home Minister not in Delhi? He cannot stay away and then evade responsibility on the pretext that he was not in town! This unwarranted terror leashed by the Government is out of place and cannot be justified in free India. Chidambaram in actions has emerged as a pathetic parody of Sardar Patel.
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