Potti Sriramulu led the separation of Andhra Pradesh as first linguistic province in India almost six decades ago by a fast unto death. This as initials paved the way for separation of states on the basis of language.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s recent fast unto death again pushed the government to take action, in same fashion. We have to wait and watch for the tentative result of his fast, because there are many forces working which can affect the related result.
But ‘fast unto death’ is again on forefront as a weapon in democracy. One question is emerging that, is it right to go for such kind of practice especially to pressurize the government for any demand. It can be said in the response that people are not using it for the betterment of human society, rather their ultimate goal is to hone their political career and it ends each and every possibilities of dialogue between parties involved in conflict.
Mr. M K Gandhi also used it in 1914 to protest against the racial laws of South Africa and it became the central feature of all his protest in India as well. But in that stratum of philosophical and political arena it is articulated as an instrument to purify self and tame all the evil forces, which comes in between path of truth.
Here allegation is that, such kind of deliberately denial of food is not being used to restrict the negativity of self rather for political gain. But the unfortunate part of the whole scene is that all the effort which is putting pressure on government, is being perceived as the weapon of political gain. That may be any sort of agitation which is not favoring the government.
In country like India, where democracy is in practice, as a tool of governance in which common mass is loosing each and every technique to oppose the government. Not by the force only, but also by the emotional atyachar (ethical and emotional teaching) on the name of country and its development.
Government (power) is free to fall up to any extent without any restriction. We can consider Neelofar and Asiya rape and murder case in Sophian for example. All the evidences were systematically and deliberately fabricated, tampered and destroyed to conceal the truth. The role, and so that the nature of state was exposed there, where, those Sophian ladies are still struggling for their last right to die with dignity even after their death.
On the name of contribution in so called democracy, a common person of the country has the right to vote and select his/her representatives. Importance of that single vote can be easily understood by a simple survey among voters that what they think while going to vote and which kind of forces direct their voting. And interesting point is that people have to use that power of vote efficiently and maintain a sort of killing silence so that normalcy and dialogue between parties could be possible, as per the demand and expectation of the government.
The opposition to use fast as a weapon to present our discontentment is leading us to the conclusion that, as the citizens of India we have no way to demand, present our wish and oppose the wrong doing of power. We are only entitled to live like mute spectators, in biggest democracy of the world, even after the encroachments in our personal ambit.
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