Shikha Mukerjee | The Politics Of Protest: Why Wangchuk Arrest Is A Blunder

One day before the arrest and under the National Security Law, before flying from cool and clean Leh to hot and dusty Jodhpur, an indisputable warrior Sonam Wangchuk for the rights of the Ladakh people said, “Don’t put me under the public security action by the Union House Ministry and put me in imprisonment for two years”. “I’m ready for this, but Sonam Wangchuk in prison may cause more problems than a free sonam Wangchuk.”

On September 24, two days before the arrest and deportation of his own base, Sonam Wangchuk called for a state for Ladakh, and he had committed to the sixth program of the Constitution, which would mean special status and accompanying privileges for people. Mr. Wangchuk is a famous activist; Whatever it is, it is a great news that spreads rapidly throughout the world, because in addition to other things, it is an innovative who is worried about the environment and establishes the Institute of Himalaya; He is an educational reformer and a person who protested and protested the rights of his people; First of all, even in places like China, Bollywood has become a hit film.

For this reason, Mr. Wangchuk was completely right because it was not seen as a solution as a solution as a solution as a solution as a solution as a solution after the separation of Jammu and Kashmu State and the Kashmu State and the Kashmu State and the Kashmu state. All protests are not a kind of feather staged by political parties in the season and outside the season, because it is a clamping interpretation or even a deliberate position.

Politicians, especially in campaign mode, in a speech that Mr. Modi hit Congress and RJD in the early September, “My mother was abused. These abuse is not only insulting my mother, but not insulting the mothers of the country, sisters and dau -hhs.” The incident was the reaction of a person to the antiques of a person at the Darbhanga rally in August during the Voter Adhikar investment. The trade of creative insults such as “Jersey Cow” and “Congress Ki Vidhwa öygün referring to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi has been normalized since 2014. The best thing to say about the trade of such abuse is the poison of another man; Mr. Modi’s mother’s hands are closed; Rahul Gandhi is not his mother.

The issue is that the legitimacy of a protest cannot be decided by the police, Ladakh’s lieutenant governor, the Ministry of Interior, BJP or another political party. Legitimacy is not determined by the police, bureaucracy or the government of the day.

Police and the judiciary may declare that a particular protest is illegitimate; This does not do that. In a democracy, protest or illegitivity of the opposition is determined by the popular support it receives, the size of the masses that mobilize to support it and the durability of the protest.

The fight against politics with the compelling machines of the state determined by the government is a classic reaction of authoritarianism. Protestors are equivalent to cruelty by deploying the existing means of violence for the government, and firing at angry protesters, which is mostly called “mafia” or “rebellious mafia ında in the polish and government flare, and the deployment of the existing means of violence for the government.

The question to be asked, even if no one was: Ladakh’s police should shoot the crowd and kill four people in the process and wounded more than 50 people in the process, and then to blame the failure of the crowded administration in Sonam Wangchuk and declare dangerous for national security?

Protest is a constitutional guaranteed fundamental right; It is included in the state and the sixth program for Ladakh. This is a matter of national security, which is necessary, but it is not possible to come from the Ministry of Interior.

Pessimism is based on an interested directive at the Police Research and Development Office at the two -day National Security Strategies Conference of Union Interior Minister Amit Shah. Otherwise, the office, which is an uncertain asset, was told to enter the past after addiction to “financial aspects”, “financial aspects”, final results and “behind -the -stage players” to develop the causes of these protests.

The details were not reported to be particularly problematic for the Ministry of Interior and why this research would be done. A simple explanation may be the numerous protests of the Narendra Modi Government, which had participated in the young people in Nepal and the young protests in Bangladesh, and previously in Sri Lanka and to Southeast Asia and Middle East and Africa. Such protests, especially in the internet age, have their own lives, no pressure and interruption can actually work to darken information.

Another obvious reason for forcing them to research is that there is no political intelligence. Political leaders are expected to read the pulse of people or feel the noise under the feet of the earth long before the trembling, and the earthquakes can feel the rest. If political leaders do not contain their ears about protests, and fear that such joints or demonstrations can make the order of the sequence of things and can overthrow, it means that there is inadequacy in the summit. Or, perhaps the political leadership living in a bubble lost its contact with the ground.

While the detainees of Mr. Wangchuk under the NSA are deployed against a popular agitation that may enter the mass of state power mass movement, there will be a change in Ladakh’s status to recognize the legitimate demand of people.

As a possibility, it looks quite realistic; With all the supervision and coercion apparatus in Beck and calls, three terms in office can be excused to lose the magic touch that divides success into failure.

Shikha Mukerjee is a senior journalist