The Pramod Sawant Government has deviously made an utter mockery of the entire election process for these Panchayat elections. The High Court and later the Supreme Court has seen through the deceitful agenda of this government and has rightly cracked the whip to reinforce the message that enough is enough!
By such cheap politriks in trying to find every excuse under the sun to delay these elections, it only demonstrated how low this government can stoop in its political treachery. In fact the government ran out of excuses, unable to invent any more. Even those petitions challenging the rotation of reserved seats were possibly State sponsored.
It is the duty of the government to provide all reservations of seats as mandated by our Constitution of India. But if for some reasons the data of a particular community is not available, the Elections cannot wait or be delayed because the law requires that they be held on time. In any democracy, elections are a fundamental right of the electorate and denying them or delaying this privilege flies in the face of the Rule of Law and erodes trust in Government.
The Government would be wise to take heed of Abraham Lincoln‘s famous words of advice ‘You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time’.
