Bandh ho Bust

Vandalism rules. And violence has become the rule of the game called protest they play in the country of Gandhi where nonviolence was once the law of life. But how much is it justifiable to take law into our own hands to protest a decision spelt by the highest court of law in the country? 

The Bharat Bandh called by Dalit organisations conveniently took the entire country to ransom claiming innocent lives, vandalising private and public properties and throwing the system out of gear. Law enforcing agencies across the country were reduced to mute spectators with the mob capturing the ‘centre-street’. Is this the way we will achieve what we are demanding? Not only Rajasthan but the entire country, especially North India, was burning in the flame instigated by the caste factor. 

The police looked helpless and pitiable when they were heard appealing to the people to go out of their homes only when there is urgency. 

And it’s appalling when the Railways, haunted by the mob, urged passengers to cooperate when it was cancelling trains. In a democratic country, it’s indeed alarming when a handful of outlaws enters your psyche and plays terror in your mind brutalising all the civic rights our constitution grants. The lawmakers and the executives – both in unison – have given way to this vandalism which has become a way of life now