75th Founding Day Lecture Meeting on “India@2030” Know More

April 2010

Defending idea of India & Democracy v. Organised violence

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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Maharashtra Chief Minister
Ashok Chavan may well have decreed that Shiv Sena workers would not be allowed
to run riot at cinema halls showing Shahrukh Khan’s movie, My Name is Khan. He
must, however, be resolute and put down such strong-arm tactics with force. What
is under attack is not cinema but the idea of India as a composite democracy. To
allow the attackers any leeway is to fail to defend Indian democracy. After
seemingly endless buckling down to one form of chauvinism or another, at least
one major political leader has dared to call the Shiv Sena’s bluff. The Chief
Minister must deploy the entire might of the state to defend democracy against
chauvinism operating as organised thuggery. If necessary, he must raise the ante
and take the battle directly to the Sena leadership, rather than merely act
against its foot soldiers, who behave as if they have a birthright to run Mumbai
as they like.

The people and government
must collectively show that democracy will prevail over organised violence.

(Source : The Economic Times, dated 11-2-2010)

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