Democracy requires rule of Constitutional law with freedom of speech to give and receive criticism with tolerance and humanity. The Prime Minister preaches Nagrik Devo Bhava (citizens shall be served like God). This is hypocrisy when citizens have to come out on the streets and brave the police and other agencies, courts are out of the common man’s reach, stark facts which cannot be ignored. Blaming conspiracies and foreign agencies mainly are old excuses. There is no level playing field. The brutal violence on Rama Kankonkar by goons in broad daylight, now in GMC battling to repair his bruised and maimed body, law and order deterioration in Goa, where the people/ stakeholders are not consulted before vital decisions that will affect them but are bulldozed by a majoritarian lip service but apparently non-secular divisive government with development decisions made in Delhi and police force a handmaiden of the ruling party and not a people service. In a democracy we have a Supreme Court and knowing human nature we can also subscribe to one supreme ruling party only at our peril! Elections are finally the only power we have.
