Democracy In Manipur Essay

Introduction

I am an eighteen year old law student and I 've always been reading in textbooks about how ours is the largest democracy in the world. A democracy is where the government is of the people, by the people and for the people. Is it the real picture? Do people actually have that much power in this country? I have always wondered how theses actions of the army in the neglected north-eastern states of the nation, particularly in Manipur, have contradicted the expectations one has from a democracy. This is the prime concern of this essay. Taking up the example of Irom Chanu Sharmila - The Iron Lady of Manipur, who represents the protest against AFSPA, we will see how the democracy we claim to be living within is not really a democracy. We need to develop this understanding because what is going on in Manipur is fair neither to the citizens nor to this young lady who gave up her lifestyle being a young adult

A democratic government is the one for the people is what we 've established over the years. But that is clearly not something which is happening in the areas of Manipur. In Manipur, the civil society gets only three to four hours of electricity whereas it is the people from the army and the VIPs who get regular supply of electricity. The petrol pumps which are meant for the general public of the society are not meant for the civil society in Manipur, they are meant for the army men and VIPs. Is this the right thing to do? Is the government sleeping that they can 't see events like this taking place? We, the people of this country, elect these representatives so that they can look out for us and take decisions for our betterment. But what betterment are decisions like these of the government going to induce? In my opinion, decisions like these are only going to frustrate and annoy the