The unprecedented closing of ranks by the legislators of all hues in Punjab Assembly for digressing the law to take its own course regarding the venal politicians embroiled in graft cases is a living testimony to current bizarre political fabric of the Country abounding in disgusting opportunism, stenching moral decadence and cold-blooded & sadistic callousness to public reactions underscored by culpable ignorance of even basic tenets of law of land. One is bound to shudder with bewilderment as to how the ‘principle of equality’ and ‘due process of law’ enshrined in the Constitution was put in jeopardy by the antics of the vested interests in Punjab Assembly. It also brings out that law enforcement agencies have reduced themselves to puppets in the hands of ruling regime clinically & piously doing their biddings. Rot is deep seated and malignant calling for holistic remedial measures. To begin with, it would be desirable to invoke relevant constitutional provisions to prescribe some minimal qualification (beware of tokenism) to make one eligible to contest an election followed by mandatory and comprehensive training regimen equipping the elected persons with adequate know how of constitutional propriety and law of land. Sooner some such correctory measures are undertaken on a war footing better it shall be for the democratic health of the Nation lest already much disillusioned & harried 'cattle-class' should be pulverised into a classless lot and 'regal-class' of politicians, bureaucrats, and business tycoons (exceptions apart) catapult themselves to a position of absolute immunity.
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