CJP Founder Abhijeet Dipke, Gitanjali ji (Sonam sir’s wife), actors Shabana Azmi and Prakash Raj were all in this truck which the Police brutally attacked.
They dragged one protester who was helping to navigate and chased him to beat him up. The Police thought we will get scared - but they are wrong! Ladenge jeetenge!
Seeking accountability, encouraging dialogue, and peaceful protests are hallmarks of a healthy democracy. But when peaceful protesters, seeking accountability are met with force and dissent is suppressed, it signals authoritarianism.
Whether it is the forcible removal of Sonam Wangchuk from Delhi's Jantar Mantar during his indefinite hunger strike demanding accountability over the NEET paper leak, the dismantling of a 15-day protest by Gond and Kol Adivasis in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district, who are facing displacement and were demanding fair rehabilitation, adequate compensation, protection of their land rights in the Ken–Betwa River Project, or the use of police force and lathi-charge against students protesting today, these incidents highlight the authoritarianism, silencing voices, dissent, and critical questions.
In his speech to the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, Dr. Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar warned that democracy requires constitutional methods for achieving social and political change. He cautioned against abandoning these methods in favour of extra-constitutional means, while also making clear that democratic institutions must remain responsive to the voices and grievances of citizens. A Constitution, in his view, could only succeed when those entrusted with power respected its spirit and not merely its written provisions.
Babasaheb also emphasised that political democracy cannot survive without the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The right to question authority, demand accountability, and peacefully express disagreement is central to preserving these values. For him, democracy was not only about majority rule; it was about ensuring that power remained accountable and that citizens retained the ability to challenge injustice.
A democracy is ultimately tested not by how it treats agreement, but by how it responds to disagreement!
Suppression of dissent has not worked well for those in power in the long run. Successive Congress governments, and now the BJP government have all restricted voices of opposition and curb dissent like the British Raj.
History shows that silencing questions and suppressing democratic expression does not strengthen authority; it only deepens public resistance and ultimately weakens those who attempt to impose authoritarian practices within a democracy.
Why did the Delhi Police resort to a lathicharge and fire tear gas shells at the protesters?
Is this what democracy looks like, or a sign of authoritarianism?
जिन लोगों को पुलिस माँ की गालियां दे रही हैं, बेरहमी से सड़क पर घसीट रही है और लठिया बरसा रही है, वे भारत देश के छात्र हैं, देश के युवा हैं, और 'जन-गण-मन' का जन है।
आज जो मिडिल-क्लास की आँख खुली है, तो शायद इसलिए कि उन्हें पहली बार एहसास हुआ है कि यह सरकार उनकी भी नहीं है और सरकार उनके बच्चों को भी नहीं बख्शेगी। लेकिन यह एहसास बहुत देर से आया है।
इतने सालों से इस देश के दलित, आदिवासी और माइनॉरिटी गला फाड़-फाड़कर अपनी आवाज़ उठा रहे थे। वे सवाल पूछ रहे थे, संविधान और अपने अधिकारों की बात कर रहे थे, सड़कों पर आंदोलन कर रहे थे।
जब दलितों, आदिवासियों और माइनॉरिटीज़ को लिंच किया जा रहा था, उनके घरों पर बुलडोज़र चलाए जा रहे थे, उन्हें निशाना बनाया जा रहा था और उनकी आवाज़ को दबाया जा रहा था, तब अगर मिडिल-क्लास ने उनके साथ खड़े होकर सवाल पूछे होते, तो शायद आज यह स्थिति देखने की नौबत नहीं आती।
अन्याय कभी सिर्फ़ एक समुदाय तक सीमित नहीं रहता। जब आप दूसरों के अधिकारों पर होते हमलों पर चुप रहते हैं, तो वही ख़ामोशी सत्ता को और बेलगाम बना देती है। आज जो अन्याय उनके साथ हो रहा है, कल वही आपके दरवाज़े पर भी दस्तक देता है।
If the police had such understanding then no one would be spitting on the Delhi police. The children on whom they lathicharged, will they never become police officers or politicians like you, you will see that one day these children will remind you policemen of your status.
@DelhiPolice
#Concrochjantaparty
#SonamWangchuk
#CJP_IS_BACK
What happened at Jantar Mantar today is deeply disturbing and heartbreaking.
The youngsters who gathered there were not criminals. They were students, the hopes and dreams of countless families and of our nation, peacefully exercising their constitutional right to express their concerns.
Instead of dialogue, they were reportedly met with police lathis. That is not how a democracy responds to its citizens.
As an Indian, a Member of Parliament, and a mother, I find this deeply painful and unacceptable. Every one of those students could have been our own child. No parent sends their son or daughter to the nation's capital expecting them to return bruised simply for raising their voice peacefully.
A government that truly believes in democracy must have the courage to listen, not suppress. The Government must engage with the students and their parents with empathy, address their genuine concerns through meaningful dialogue, and uphold the democratic values that define our Republic.
@PMOIndia
I WAS PREPARING FOR THE UPSC, BUT NOW I'VE LOST THE MOTIVATION.
I DON'T THINK I CAN LIVE OR WORK AMONG PEOPLE LIKE THIS.
Dharmendra Pradhan Must Resign
Abhijeet Dipke, CJP founder, described the police action against peaceful protesters as 'brutal' in Jantar Mantar. He added that a 15-year-old girl was beaten badly by male police officers.
🎥: PTI
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