Samikhsya Bureau
It requires no extra vision to realize that, over the CAA and its enforcement there is a dividing line, separating the political dispensation and the judiciary.
The other day, the Supreme Court justice, Justice Chandrachud has come out with an observations over the prevailing circumstances, more so on the protests over the CAA, which do indicate at a situation where the Justice alluded that the government has a responsibility to respect the plurality that remains at the bottom of Indian democratic values.
It had earlier been said by the CJI that, ‘dissent is essential’and now, Justice Chandrachud’s speech at an event, means that, there is an occasion when dialogues between two sides are essential and it will be wrong to suppress the rights to dissent by the protesting students out rightly.
On the other side, be it the Prime Minister or the home minister, both have demonstrated the will not to budge before any pressure over the CAA and no amount of protests can come on the way of its enforcement.
Addressing a gathering in Varaansi on Sunday the prime minister has made it clear that, whether it is Artcile 370 abrogation or the promulgation of the CAA, his government “ would steadfastly stand by the decisions”.
With Modi and Shah remaining firm on their positions, not to budge from the CAA, the voices emanating from none other than Justice Chandrachud was a clear hint at the people in power that, people’s right to dissent is “ at the very heart of a dialogue-based democratic society”.
But, looking back at the chronology of events, it is clear that the recourse of a dialogue as a means of solution has been given much less priority that it deserves.
States after states are passing resolutions against the CAA in their respective Assemblies and if the legislatures are the products of people’s will, then the issue surely deserve a look before things spiral out of control.
