Even after 35 years of Emergency imposed on the country, human rights organizations are scared of government’s functioning on the lines of those dark days.
Most of the political parties who had faced the brunt of emergency in those have forgotten, but some of the concened citizens organized a huge meeting of intellectuals of the national capital on anti-emergency day.
The speakers that included socialist leaders and human rights activists were unanimous that in the hinterland the situation was worse than emergency.
“Slowly and steadily the government is moving towards emergency due to its own class character,” one of them said and added that there was already a situation of mini-emergency existed at many places and people who are poor and are in peaceful movement are thrown into jails in the name of Maoists and Naxalites.
“Everyone who are fighting for their rights are not launching violent movement, but they are being branded like that,” he added.
Citing the example of people’s verdict after Janata Party, another speaker asserted that the reelection of Indira Gandhi showed that people had voted against her due to her wrong governance and her endeavour to cripple democracy.
Alleging Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as one of the persons responsible for this emergency like situation, Jain said that even judiciary has become insensitive.
The government was trying to intimidate human rights defenders and this is gross violation of democratic values.
A political party leader accused “Manmohan-Chidamabaram duo” as responsible for mass scale displacement of people for attracting foreign investment. She said that attack of people’s movement has increased many fold and all those who are fuighting for their legitimate rights are being booked even on charges like “goonda act”.
