A Law Student's Contention

Photo Courtesy: The Quint There is a prevailing notion in the society that Judges are people belonging to the elite class of the society and are persons of academic significance divorced from the reality of the society as is often accused by the Executive wing too. The view is not far from reality and is based on logical and reasonable grounds. When just to lay down that ‘Right to Privacy’ is a fundamental right and is an integral part of Article 21, the learned Judges had to write 547 pages of sheer philosophy! not much is left to say against the ‘Academic Judges’ view. These people babble about the idea of justice and liberty as if they are themselves the incarnation of goddess Justitia. The problem is not with their babbling but with their conduct when their own interests are at stake. How they abandon these ideas and make them orphan. Some examples of Judges who after breaking up from reality and practicality also divorced from their ideas about which they bragged about

No, illogical coalitions are not the answer to the abovestated problem, well not at least in my view because the resultant mess would not be accepted by the society because they too want a stable government. Though stable government is last of their concern, their hearts will question them that for whose benefit will they work for instance a government made by a coalition between pro-Dalit party, pro-OBC party and Congress will work for the welfare of whom? Will they work for the benefit of Dalits or OBC or rather for all of them? To this, the simple answer is that they cannot work for the welfare of more than one community as no political group in India has neither the willpower to do so nor have efficient resources required for it. This unholy coalition made by sheer survival instincts will prefer not to work at all towards the welfare of anyone to save itself from being accused of discrimination and the resultant loss of traditional voter base. This is just a problem appare

As the General Elections 2019 to Lok Sabha inch closer politics is becoming more intense, unscrupulous and shrewd which makes me question the entire process. Before you decipher this article, I would like to attach a preliminary note that in no way I’m opposing the noble systems of ‘government by the people’ and I too firmly believe that it is one of the greatest systems evolved by humans after applying all the intelligence that humanity could actually devote. But I for one feel that the parliamentary system has manifested all the defects that it carries with the swings of the pendulum and instead of taking a  status quoits  position we should take a reformative approach. We defend the ideas, system, and institutions mindlessly because that is what we have learned but we forget that they were made for the ‘welfare of the people’ and have become more of a burden than an instrument of welfare. The reason is that contemporarily in our country instead of general elections,  gen