Lawmakers Against Lawbreakers

 Petitioners for Endurance of Truth

Amid a flagging set of circumstances of civil liberties, deprivation of basic human rights, and societal inequalities, there are still catapulting preclusive slants to embark on the brass tacks.

As the drift is toward building statues, the vitality of recognizing the importance of lawmakers and justice dispensing mechanisms come into view as embodiments of truth beckoners and guardians of societal privileges and liberties – Don’t we need to carve out sculptures of such one-time iconic lawmakers as much?

Historically and precisely so, the need for statues of erstwhile spearheads stands reasonable, definitely to remind us of their spirit of uniting people and preemptive nation-building; in the context, the role and spirits of the lawmakers may not be less admissible for similar acknowledgments.

However, sculptures and figurines may not seem obligatory as they may appear monumental plenipotentiaries of justice apparatus than the very essence of chiseling them for remembrances, as it is for the leaders of rectitude among some of them we have as statues.

Are they “Figures of Epitome” or “Admiration”, and as significant as the ‘not-just-interposing’ catalysts, but also awkward elements against the misgivings of devilry philosophies of society?

Are they as much notorious for violating the societal edicts and laws and several other oddities - transgressing the laid down “Canons of Rights” of civilians and people at large? Nonetheless, the justice dispensing mechanism still surfaces as the “salvaging harbinger” amidst the populous ‘cohabitants of the bigoted’ sections.

Customary prostrations and sycophancies maybe rampant to surpass the deserved, spitefully - and be at the helm of affairs, but the verity of one’s being true to the profession is like a pledge taken by the soul that respires merely truth and the virtue of safeguarding society with the power of knowledge and gab.

Taints on the parts of the protectors may seemly smudge the sanctity of the barebones of law and the norms that guard existence and rights. Unjustly, the ‘phantasms of aberration’ snicker at the whole untoward happenings of society. Lawmakers and human rights protectors may have demarcation of perceptions and may behold insightfully yet diverse ideas of people’s rights, but overbearing may vacillate to the wrong side, benefitting the violator of the rights of the citizens.

Aching to get back from the woes, if our present is not snatched away from us! Of course, hidebound ideologues batter us back to the stone or nomadic age, and we are thoroughly ill-disposed. Helplessly, neither to lament nor to gloat - the poise to change or transform the society, in its entirety - makes the efforts towards it immeasurably grueling.

There’s illustriousness of precedents of the judiciary. It has taken cognizance of all its unambiguous wakefulness and interventions time and again.

The Supreme Court had recently asked the lower judiciary to try on a priority basis the criminal cases pending against former and sitting Members of Parliament and Members of the Legislative Assembly.

The bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, said that criminal matters against the MLAs and MPs, in which life imprisonment punishment warrants should be taken up on a priority basis by Sessions Court.*

Could there be anything more than that unconditional example to bring transparency to the system? Fortifying the fundamentals of civil, and human rights compels more initiatives and resonation with affirmative takeaways.

Every year, on the 10^thday of December, Human Rights Day is celebrated worldwide, to not only evoke the memoirs of the fundamentals and rudiments laid down but also to invigorate the spirit to protect civil and human liberties and rights across the world.

The United Nations (UN) Family pushed the boat out this year (2018) as always on the 10th of December, which is commemorated as World Human Rights Day. But the distinctiveness was - this year being the 70^th, as it started on the 10th December 1948. The day was earmarked as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

It was adopted to entrench policies and fundamentals; protect civil life and establish peace and harmony and healthy coexistence. The declaration reads myriad forms of civil liberties, respect, and value for human privileges and dignity, largely.

Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, reinforced Mr. Guterres’s, the UN Chief’s comments, reminding the audience that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was forged in the crisis of the post-war period as a guide to leading societies away from “conflict, inequality and turmoil,” which is an “a living document, just as powerful and valid today as it was in the ashes and rubble of global destruction.” (UN News)

Barrowing trifling ideas of provoking societal harmony, binging inequality, discrimination; disturbing peace and harmony has been always despised – beyond all prosaic, the adoption of the Declaration of Universal Human Rights practices to being in amity in the global framework of human existence and inhabitance. Thus it asserts the need and eminent relevance of ‘being’ in the universe, in absolute harmony. And, certainly, has an untold bearing on the ‘Lawmakers’.

*(Rediff.com/PTI)