WHY THE ASSEMBLY WAS
DISSOLVED
prematurely in Telangana,
when there is still about 9 months time for the existing Assembly to continue
and the general elections are anyhow due in about six months, at the mere whim
and fancy of the corrupt and cantankerous Chief Minister and why the Governor
of the State, without batting an eyelid, put his rubber stamp of approval
within minutes of the decision conveyed to him – is the baffling question
rankling in the minds of all lovers of and sticklers to democracy. A real doubt
arises as to whether we have bred, and are nurturing, an array of naya nawabs acting despotically in the
guise of democracy, watching the autocratic style, callous conduct and colossal
cupidity of the many rogues in power in the country. True, several Assemblies
in India were dissolved prematurely earlier too and the elections were
conducted with much effort in such instances within six months of dissolution
but then there were some valid reasons or situations calling for the same. But
the present one seems to be entirely due to the will and pleasure of a chief
minister blindly approved by a constitutional head of the province, expected to
exercise his own discretion in such matters. This also dissolves the many
complaints in and out of Courts regarding the corrupt practices of this Chief
Minister in enticing and recruiting several defector MLAs and even bestowing
ministerial post on a chief defector in blatant violation of all the norms and
provisions of the Constitution in league with the Speaker of the Assembly [who continues as the ruling
party Polit Bureau member all along]. Sadly the Constitutional Courts also abdicate their powers and duties,
pleading inability to intervene in such matters in the name of ‘respecting the
separation of powers’ as if the basic democratic structure can be undermined nonetheless;
and in that case why not the Xth Schedule of the Constitution, which is read to
vest more powers on the Speaker than elsewhere in the Constitution on the
President of India, be altogether deleted? Discerning people only think that
all this is done due to and based on a secret deal between the ruling parties
at the state and the Centre with understanding to free the hands of the current
Chief Minister, who feels sure to get elected again, for a future alliance with
the current ruling party in the 2019 General Elections to the Lok Sabha and
divide the spoils; but no public purpose is involved in nor any good to the
people will accrue by this decision. However, this editor wishes, and hopes,
the Telangana people strike back to reject such despotic chief minister at the
coming polls. §§§
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