Patralekha Chatterjee | Tit for tat' is an attack on rule of law & democracy
Deccan ChronicleDemocracy is about free and fair elections. Which brings me to three other critical words “Sathe Shathyam Samacharet” recently advocated by Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister of Haryana, where the BJP is in power. Mr Khattar’s supporters say the Haryana chief minister’s remarks were cherry-picked, the clip was misleading and that the talk about raising volunteers was only in the context of countering “propaganda” about the three farm laws. But neither Mr Khattar nor his supporters have so far denied that he advocated “Sathe Shathyam Samacharet” and the use of the “stick” to counter the farm laws’ critics. There is the widely-reported video clip of the minister of state where he is heard warning agitating farmers that he would discipline/fix them in “two minutes” even before Sunday’s violent clashes in Lakhimpur Kheri: “Face me, it will take just two minutes to discipline you fellows.” There is a simple point here: you can’t have rule of law and its antithesis co-existing side by side without damage to society and the economy.
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