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The Constitution's fall

'Freedom is when the people can speak; democracy is when the government listens.' - Alistar Farrugia
On the occasion of India's Republic Day, a horde of questions has arisen which the Indian government must answer to satiate the international public. India celebrates its constitution and ideals on this day. However, does the incumbent government uphold the spirit it showcases? Has the Indian Constitution, which stood cemented for 70 years, been eroded to gullible paper in a few months? Where is the Indian fire which once rallied Indian independence and democracy?

In the past few months, the Constitution of India has faced heavy fire from attacks on its integrity. The ideals it proclaimed as fundamental to the idea of India are being manipulated and misused by ill-required bills of the incumbent. While the methods of the BJP-led government are certainly on the brink of unconstitutionality, they have the confidence of the Supreme Court of India (Not to cast aspersions). However, their acts are essentially stone and mortar for the walls they wish to create.

Leaving the inherent moral and constitutional flaws of their bills (CAA, NRC, Abrogation of Article 370 et cetera), the BJP has come under media attention for their means of a denial of citizen's protest. From the Union Home Minister of India blazoning a refusal to heed to the words of protestors indefinitely, to the vicious jibes at Shaheen Bagh (A popular people's protest in UP which is well-known for being peaceful and female-dominated); the discouragement and the unhealthy atmosphere of the incumbent is unacceptable. 

We, the people of India have the right to protest and not be personally attacked and deterred by politically motivated forces in the government.m

The Home Minister's statements are in clear violation of the fundamental rights of the protestors to not be viciously attacked by their icons. True, the crowd may be incited by iconoclastic political leaders, but they are too citizens of the same nations. We must patch up the bullet holes in the constitution and revitalise it by defeating anti-democratic forces in India.

What stood through the Emergency of 1975, survived four wars, strengthened the world's largest democracy and defended the rights of millions is falling. However, the nation is not blind to such atrocities. The alacritous people of India will rise again to rescue the Constitution from the jaws of death which near it now. The nation has done it once. It's time to invoke the past spirit and save it again.

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