After the election system is broken no system remains for the government. All other institutions of democratic government are bound to suffer faith in legitimate control. Lack of faith in the people’s election inevitably causes lack of authority. Only the police power has received an extra boost for their role in the general election. Faith in legitimate political leadership has suffered a deeper setback.
But we must do everything to save the judiciary as a forum of deciding legal disputes. The politics should be decided politically through their own way. But the judiciary must stop from being a political tool for political fights for power. The judiciary must not give up to be the measure of civilised life in a country.
The political cases filed by the police under political pressure are not for finding the truth of the cases but for keeping the political opponents in jail without bail. So there is no problem in filing against one as many baseless cases as they pleased. The result is both the police and the judicial system are under heavy political pressure. Like in emergency martial law situations intelligence personnel are to be found all over the courts to watch what is happening where. Blame lies with the system where the politicians are mostly not politicians, so the others run the country they know best.
The Supreme Court must take up the issue when magistrates are dictated to accept cases do not lie in law and insist on issuing arrest warrants defying openly the law. Such interference with judiciary must not go unnoticed.
The fact is the judiciary finds no time to deal with genuine cases and justice suffers. The courts are busy with bail matter of political nature. Only politics gains by shifting the blame the court for political opponents being in jail. They are in jail under court orders. The explanation is so simple, yet it is also simply a lie.
It is not the obligation of the judiciary to help political hypocrisy of claiming that the political opponents are in jail under courts’ orders and not for political victimisation and that is the rule of law. The victims have to seek remedy through the courts.
The Supreme Court being rightly concerned about the undisposed pile of cases in various lower courts recently issued a direction asking for disposal of pending cases within a time bound. If we may put it humbly, disposing cases is easy if due importance to doing justice is no consideration. Our consideration is to find out the real reason for too many cases coming to court.
The Supreme Court being rightly concerned about the undisposed pile of cases in various lower courts recently issued a direction asking for disposal of pending cases within a time bound. If we may put it humbly, disposing cases is easy if due importance to doing justice is no consideration. Our consideration is to find out the real reason for too many cases coming to court.
In our view, though expressed many times before, solution lies mainly in refusing to use court cases to do politics. Those who call themselves politicians should be asked to settle their politics themselves in their own way, whatever that way may be. Like before they can have special law for detaining political opponents without going for police cases.
After the farcical election victory organised by government machinery the people’s hold on the government has become non-existent. The administration including the police is proudly aware of how helpful they were for the government to remain in power.
No government has to resort to abusing police power to show its popularity in the election. The fact of government winning 289 seats out of 300 seats in the parliament itself is seen all over the world as most untrustworthy of the legitimacy of the election. Manipulators have shown their efficiency by over killing the election results.
All this can be ignored but the need to govern cannot be ignored. Providing essential services to the people cannot be neglected. Safety and security of the people must be ensured. Draining of public money must not be seen as a privilege of power.
But negligence in all government departments are daily news even in the presence of the harsh laws against the free press. Crimes of murder are committed more recklessly. Corruption is growing as a power and not as a crime. Police have been so politicised that they are used for election victory against the people. Any sensible government, elected or not, will consider such a situation as gravely disturbing.
These overzealous vote robbers have made the government weak by the fudged election and not strong. Instead, the people are being treated as powerless by many in the administration. Making arrests easy for the police will make the task of governing only harder as days go by.
So far as the people are concerned they are more helpless than ever. It is no secret that the government does not need their vote to be MPs or ministers. The whole idea of the government being the people’s government has lost its meaning.
Construction projects do not make any nation walk tall. To live free from fear and be sure of justice make a nation proud before the whole world. A political government is for improving the quality of life of the people. The last election has not made the government walk with its head high either.
