Common man's responsibility

In a democracy like India, the common man-aam admi is in a dual roll. Since the people themselves are the masters in a democracy, the common man is a master. But at the same time self sufficiency and self responsibility are the key conditions for a success of a democracy, the master himself has to play the roll of a servant also.

We frequently hear about people indulging in violence and sabotage. This leads to criticism of the administration and law enforcement agencies. I am not against criticism of the administration and police in such conditions. While appreciating people's right to give vent to their anger in a peaceful manner, their indulgence in violence and sabotage should be strongly criticized by the media and public leaders. I have never seen this happening. Reporting of this type of incidents are carried in such a manner that directly or indirectly, behavior of the people seems to be justified. Media may have their business interests and political leaders may have their political interests. But what about the masters of democracy themselves ? Should we, the masters of our own beloved democracy wait for some one else's criticism of our unbecoming behaviour?

Think about our attitude. We keep throwing rubbish anywhere we like and think of a municipality that should maintain an army of sweepers or costly sweeping equipments but at the same time do not like taxes. To give vent to our anger, we burn buses, trains and damage other public and private property. To stop us doing this we expect government to maintain a large law enforcement machinery. If these law enforcement officers resort to lathi charge or firing to control our violent outbursts, we call it atrocity on innocent people. If they keep leniency, we call them weak, biased and held them responsible for our misbehaviour. Every one of us thinks that it wasn't me yaar! There are few miscreants followed by gullible spectators. These gullible spectators are the masters. At least, as a responsible citizen, if these gullible spectators can stop inadvertent mingling with the miscreants, it will be a great service to the nation and will help law enforcement agencies to do their work in a more people friendly manner.