Team-Anna :Parliament is not supreme, We the people is

Team-Anna needs to-talk safe-to the-pt--to-keep engagement going#NAC members led by Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander presented an alternative to Team Anna's and the government draft. NAC team said arresting Anna was the wrong move by the government they also added that Team Anna's draft of the Lokpal will give overarching powers to one body.Roy said the National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI), with which she is associated, has prepared a version of Lokpal Bill and would present it before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice and Personnel. "We must assert our rights. But to get rid of these institutions would be a great disaster for all the people in
this country. Therefore we must make it work," she said. "Our argument is that democracy is people's right in our system. So we must make these democratic institutions work for us and they must work for us," she said. #On Aug 20, 10:34 am, Nachiketa Tiwari <nachiket...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Kejriwal has gone on record to state that parliament is not supreme, but the public is. Ditto for Hegde. And ditto for Bhushan (younger). On the other side, the govt. is arguing that the parliament is supreme. Either of these arguments may sound "cool" but are very, very dangerous. All these entities, the govt., Kejriwal, ... know that in reality it is the Law, i.e. the Constitution, which is supreme. We are a society where Rule of Law, prevails above everything else. So, even if the parliament enacts something against the grain of Indian Constitution, it can be declared null and void by the Supreme Court. And the people express their voice thru the same Law. This is not a matter of academic debate. But too many a society have been held to fascists when they got beholden to "we the people are supreme". The French Revolution, where many individuals masquerading as leaders of **people** managed to kill tens of thousands of folks they did not like. Ditto for China and Russia. Nepal is a much more recent story. The Maoists also perpetrate anarchy by pretending to be voices of people. As Anna's movement gathers momentum, we have to be clear that it does not generate into a Nepal like situation, where a few individuals, who have zero rapport with people, manage to get themselves officially declared as the voice of people, and make all sorts of stupid and dangerous decision. The medicine in such a case could be very well worse than the cure

#Citizens have all rights and are supreme

Pandit Nehru's address on August
3, 1962  while inaugurating the annual conference of State Ministers
of Community Development and Panchayati Raj:

" Either you trust the people or you don't. There is no half way-house. Partly trusting them leaves you nowhere. Then they have no-responsibility and they do not develop properly. That is why, having
given this authority and power to them you should not tamper with it
by official interference. Democracy is not merely Parliament at the
top or in the States but something that excites every person and
something that trains every one to take his proper place and indeed,
any place in the country if need arises. I have said and I mean it,
that all this Panchayati Raj, whatever things we are doing, are
ultimately meant to train up every individual in India to be a
potential Prime Minister of India."

If the above is true, does not Pandit Nehru's address on August
3, 1962  while inaugurating the annual conference of State Ministers
of Community Development and Panchayati Raj:

" Either you trust the people or you don't. There is no half way
house. Partly trusting them leaves you nowhere. Then they have no
responsibility and they do not develop properly. That is why, having
given this authority and power to them you should not tamper with it
by official interference. Democracy is not merely Parliament at the
top or in the States but something that excites every person and
something that trains every one to take his proper place and indeed,
any place in the country if need arises. I have said and I mean it,
that all this Panchayati Raj, whatever things we are doing, are
ultimately meant to train up every individual in India to be a
potential Prime Minister of India."

If the above is true, does not citizens have all rights for peaceful
protest against government and parliament as they are supreme in a
democracy. have all rights for peaceful
protest against government and parliament as they are supreme in a
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