Role of Judiciary and media for robust Democracy in India
Institution should be above from individual in the
democratic society. In the recent time, there are many instances in the
country, the individual misuse the Institution for instance, then Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi suspended the fundamental rights of the citizens during
emergency, and the justification being made by then government, this major was
for controlling the anarchy. This does not mean, we will except the versions of
the Indira’s Government, off course, that one of black sport on our democracy.
In the recent time, many actions or justification being made
by the government on their work or functioning of the government, this is
needed to do this. That was necessary to control that. In the any mature democracy,
there are other two pillars for working hand in hand for success of democracy,
like Media and Judiciary
Unfortunately, the reputations of the Media one of the pillar of Democracy is almost in the coma for the
quite long time, one can understand, In the 2019 World Press Freedom Index,
India is ranked 140th places out of 180 countries in the world rankings.
The famous words of LK Advani, about the character of media
during emergency “crawled” when we were asked to “bend”. But, we have not heard
any things from him about current state of Media in India. I don’t have any
idea, why he is feeling or how will he explain his own words, which he had
given on Indira’s emergency.
Censorships in the Indian Media are visible for quite some
time, we have multiple examples to proof this argument, In the TV programs,
many program or journalist are being asked to stop the program, Journalist like
Punya Prasoon Bajpai and Abhisar Sharma are example on this onslaught.
The role of Judiciary is important for smooth functioning of
the democratic system, but for quite some time, peoples are raising many
questions on the role of judiciary, many experts on law, saying judiciary in
our country are talking like executive. The nomination of the Former Chief
Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi's nomination for a Rajya Sabha seat has been
vehemently criticized by experts on the constitutions or by the commentators. Even
several retired judges have raised the questions. What would be the whole
purpose of the separation of Judiciary and executives? The role of Judiciary is
to be ombudsman and not for the making in tune with the day of government.
Here, many official
experts are saying, previous government had done in the same manner, they
appointed the Judges for the Raja Sabha. Its pity, to equate someone’s wrong
with other blunder.
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