On SC Judgement on 'Bulldozer Justice'
- Dipankar Bhattacharya, GS, CPIML
The Supreme Court judgement calling out the paradigm of 'bulldozer justice' as an assault on the very foundation of rule of law is a timely reminder to the people of India of the grave threat to the Constitution. The detailed judgement along with elaborate guidelines to enforce accountability of the state in cases of bulldozer demolition has the potential to provide a judicial bulwark against the BJP's bulldozer model of governance.
The combination of state-patronized mob lynching and the weaponisation of bulldozer as a tool of state terror targeting primarily the Muslim community has emerged as a signature of fascism in India in the Modi-Shah-Yogi era. This has expanded the fascist repertoire of terror and violence along with the already entrenched pattern of communal carnages, draconian laws and other modes of extra-judicial violence like encounter killings.
It is now for the people of India to reject the BJP's bulldozer politics lock, stock and barrel. Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have so far been the biggest laboratories of bulldozer raj. If the BJP comes to power in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, we will see two new laboratories. Let the people of Maharashtra and Jharkhand heed the Supreme Court warning and say a loud NO to bulldozer raj.
- Dipankar Bhattacharya, GS, CPIML
The Supreme Court judgement calling out the paradigm of 'bulldozer justice' as an assault on the very foundation of rule of law is a timely reminder to the people of India of the grave threat to the Constitution. The detailed judgement along with elaborate guidelines to enforce accountability of the state in cases of bulldozer demolition has the potential to provide a judicial bulwark against the BJP's bulldozer model of governance.
The combination of state-patronized mob lynching and the weaponisation of bulldozer as a tool of state terror targeting primarily the Muslim community has emerged as a signature of fascism in India in the Modi-Shah-Yogi era. This has expanded the fascist repertoire of terror and violence along with the already entrenched pattern of communal carnages, draconian laws and other modes of extra-judicial violence like encounter killings.
It is now for the people of India to reject the BJP's bulldozer politics lock, stock and barrel. Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have so far been the biggest laboratories of bulldozer raj. If the BJP comes to power in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, we will see two new laboratories. Let the people of Maharashtra and Jharkhand heed the Supreme Court warning and say a loud NO to bulldozer raj.