Sixteen Stormy Days by Tripurdaman Singh

Author:Tripurdaman Singh [Singh, Tripurdaman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789353057428
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2020-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

‘The State Governments have been betraying a most undemocratic and indeed thoroughly lawless temper in their eagerness to maintain their powers and enforce their pet policies,’ complained another.

They not only encroach on public rights and liberties, regardless of the laws and constitutional guarantees, but at times proceed unabashedly to make new laws or twist old ones to suit their autocratic impulses. Now the infection appears to be spreading towards the Centre, to the very heart and core of our independent, sovereign, secular Republic, founded on the eternal democratic principles of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and Justice. An apprehension is created that the Government of India themselves propose to amend the Fundamental Rights out of existence . . . But to tinker with the Constitution in its most vital and precious parts so soon after its inauguration can only mean one of two things, both equally humiliating: either that, with all our vociferous vaunts, we are not quite fit for self-government and the democratic order, or that the popular representative governments in the States and in the Centre are unable to govern within the framework of the Constitution which we have been flourishing in the face of an admiring world.21

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