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| Systems will change, but India lives on | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 13 : The security agencies around the Independence Day celebrations are once again on high alert. There have been reports about intelligence inputs suggesting possibilities of some ultra strikes around 15th August.
It has been customary for the security agencies to heighten security around 15thAugust as the country braces up for celebrations. Those intending to target the official functions around these national holidays and occasions of celebration and pride are out to prove that they are against the very fabric of the Indian polity. India's democracy and secular traditions are eyesores for many across the borders whose failure to even give a semblance of a democratic system has frustrated them.
Those who target democracies in other countries cannot be doing so in the name of either religion or nationhood. The message is just clear enough not to give rise to any confusion in this regard. The fact that India has survived upheavals and turmoil during the last over sixty years only proves the resilience of the Indian democracy. There are instances when straightforward officers have stood up against a corrupt or communal system to raise voices of sanity and concern for those who suffered at the hands of religious bigots.
It is one of the crowning glories of the democracy in India that some upright police officers have stood up against the system in one of the Indian states recently. The threats of the state government have not succeeded in deterring these officers from calling a spade a spade. They have at the cost of their career and future stood up to speak the truth and this has been taken unkindly by the system against which they revolted.
As long as long such honest, conscientious and upright officers are ready to call the bluff of the system, nobody can say the country and its people should lose hope. Despite CWG scams, CAG disclosures and scores of other scandals and scams coming to light, India lives not because corruption, nepotism and favoritism have taken deep roots in the system, but that the resilience of the country is so strong that despite cyclones and upheavals, India lives and exists as a working democracy. The Independence of the country is protected by its people, its constitution, its judiciary and above all by the vast majority who are still honest and upright. There have been times in the short history of our nation when the dark clouds of uncertainty hung high on the country. Successfully and with fortitude the country overcame all those obstacles.
It might appear today that once again the threat of corruption, widespread ridicule of rule of law, contempt for the upright and honest police officers and bureaucrats is threatening the very edifice of India. There is a national awareness and concern over the fate of the Lokpal Bill and the fallout of the Anna Hazare agitation over the issue. The country is passing through another uncertainty on this count. It might not be as serious and as threatening as the march on the Parliament by opposition during the days of the emergency in Indira Gandhi's rule.
Yet the people of India have become fully conscious of their democratic rights and the desire to run the country on democratic and transparent lines. Governments will have to behave according to the wishes of the people or the people might not wait long to have the government changed. Both ways, it is the victory of democracy and the people.
Despite the odds faced by the country and its people, India has lived and will continue to live for ever. Long live India. Ends |
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