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Beware! Our ’Democratic’ State Snoops Its Citizens!
On December 21, the cyber
and information security division of
the Ministry of Home affairs(MHA)
had authorised 10 central agencies
involved in security and intelligence
to intercept, monitor and descript
“any information generated,
transmitted received, or stored in
any computer resource”. Thus the
central government has given
blanket authorisation to security
agencies like intelligence bureau,
Research & Analysis Wing (RAW),
Enforcement Directorate, Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI),
Commissioner of police, Delhi and
such other organisation.
With this authorisation the NDA
government of BJP has come out
with its real nature of despotic
authoritarianism, shedding away its
democratic and parliamentary
pretentions. With this it made it
clear that the fundamental rights
sanctioned by our ‘sacred’ consti-
tution or the ruling of nine-bench
unanimous finding of the Supreme
Court in August 2017 that the right
to privacy is a fundamental right or
the principles laid in the Indian
privacy code, 2018.
When it comes to the labour
laws and their information the
government and rulers argue about
the archaic laws of British Raj that
needed to be scrapped. But when
it comes to the curtailment of
fundamental and democratic rights
of the people, the rulers and the
government borrow the powers
granted to them by the very British
Raj laws like the Telegraph act (and
its rules) 1885 that allows telephone
surveillance and the information
Technology Act (and its rules) 2000,
which is based on the draconian
acts of colonial British rulers. Added
January - 2019
to this they depend for their
surveillance programmed on the
much discredited organisations like
Central Bureau of investigation and
other agencies which were inherited
from the British Raj, and which are
not under parliamentary scrutiny.
With this authorisation India is
the latest country to join countries
such as Australia in implementing
mass surveillance. This is a blatant
act of the NDA government to spy
upon all the people.
The government and the rulers
of NDA justify this on the pretext of
ensuring national security and to
pre-empt terrorist threat and
rhetoric of national security.
All along the people around
the world are being impressed with
the socalled virtues of democracy
and parliamentary democracy in
which the freedoms of individuals,
the rights of individuals and the
privacy of individual as a right are
given top priority, respect and
utmost protection other than any
other issue.
But the deception and hollow-
ness in such claims of democracy
have been exposed with the present authorisation of mass-snooping,
which is already in practice in some
other democratic countries.
This blanket order to spy on
people is pure and simple form of
repression.
That India is a police state has
been proved time and again by
various draconian acts enacted by
successive governments from 1947
to oppress and repress people on
various pretexts.
The present day order once
again reaffirms that India is a police
state under the guise of
parliamentary democracy.
One need not fall under the
illusion that the NDA government
gave such an order to protect
national security or to pre-empt
terrorist strikes.
The NDA rulers in fact are
encouraging and abetting Hindutva
terrorism and unleashing those
mobs on the common people to
terrorise them and fold them in to
their embrace.
All the democratic forces shall
condemn this and fight against this
repressive order that spies upon
the people!
course of their prolonged
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struggle, the people have reached suppression. But it will serve no
purpose. The Indian rulers can
create more incidents like Pulwama,
but cannot solve the Kashmir
problem by these methods. The
solution lies nowhere but in going
deep into its roots. The need is to
create democratic, free and peaceful
atmosphere and conditions where
Kashmir people can express their
views on their political future.
Negating the people’s aspirations,
seeking to impose the solutions
against the wishes of people and
dreaming of suppressing the people
will only drive the Indian ruling classes
into deeper quagmire of crisis.
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a point where they cannot be
scared away by the security forces.
The instances of people intervening
into the scene, as happened in
Pulwama, are growing. The people
and democratic forces fear that the
Indian rulers are blowing up the
danger of militancy in Kashmir in a
deliberate attempt to deny the just
national and democratic aspirations
and rights of Kashmir people, trying
to show the problem of Kashmir as
nothing but a conflict between the
militants and Indian Govt. and are
using it to justify their policy of brutal