. Govt. knee jerk reactions is understanable Every state have their own crusaders, activists and whistle blowers .They help in highlighting the ills plaguing the society, expose double standards, and Govt. Govt favouritism, deliberate policy decisions favouring few.
We admire and appreciate Anna Hazare, APP followers, Subash Agraval, among others, They put the Govt, on mat, notice to set the process in order, otherwise Govt. machinery and process become one sided and their behaviour arrogant. The Govt. has battery of lawyers, resources to seek best legal advice to fight what is being felt as motivated, irrelevant, scurrilous litigation. Further to allege legal system and media colluding with activist is abroad sweep of irrational inferences. It is the activist, at a cost to murderous attacks, killings, who dare to call spade a spade and defy illegitimate curbs on freedom guaranteed by constitution The existing llegislations are enough to deal with any so called aberrations and mis conceived , brazen conduct of either individuals or groups, masquerading as NGO`s with ulterior motives .An ordinary citizen, however knowledgeable is not in a position to unearth the intricacies, policies, designed to hide the truth, couched with colourful exercises Most of the corruption cases, in administration, executive, judiciary, police would have lied buried under mountains of fabricated lies, had it not been to the activists Govt is attempting to dilute tinker with RTI act, appointment of Information commissioners as such information is a thorn in their flesh. Do they want activists to be mouth pieces of Govt policies? Why do so called clean politicians want to silence dissent, override all objections and ride roughshod over opinions, suggestions etc It appears that they have something to hide from public view, because they know that they are not honest, as they wish to appear, doubting all systems as having failed and that they alone are the righteous persons , who can do no wrong. In a democracy, the muzzling of individual or collective vox pouli is a sure recipe towards authoritarian streaks of power. In our state many Govt decisions have been legally challenged, at a cost, personal risk and sacrifice and have shown the rulers in bad light and incompetency of decisions and policies The opposition , whose duty it is appears to turn Nelson`eye for the reasons best known to them much against their assigned role No amount of legal threats either existing or in the pipe line will ever deter the crusaders of taking head on the powers that be, who want to suppress the truth. We know of various types of dossiers, real and manufactured; letting loose state machinery for partisan and guided purpose has numbed some outspoken critics into zombies out of fear. The human indomitable spirit will always rise in the midst of purposive obstacles, hindrances to lay bare the truth, mischief and all acts of arrogance, authoritarian attitude and behaviour and warnings .There will arise new army of crusaders against all wrong doings as we have seen in the past, emergency not withstanding. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear .There are enough safeguards in our system to deal with any fissiparous tendencies and aberrations and hence no need of draconian measures to deal with normal situations Nelson Lopes Chinchinim