By D N Singh
The Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Borrish Johnson today faces the scorch of phone calls exerting on him the moral pressure to step down from his post. Reasons are simple yet highly offensive according to the laws of that land.
That in 2019 when Covid spread all over the world, Johnson allegedly celebrated his birth day inside his residential office in Downing Street with his staff. Which was viewed as a violation of the Covid protocols which restricted any gathering in indoors even.
While looked back as what happened in India, during the first and second wave, it was shockingly unacceptable. India allowed Tablighi, allowed Shaheen Bagh, allowed the festival of democracy i.e election rallies and so on. Which was added by the Farmers’ strike. Covid outbreak was stupefying and thousands fell victim.
Can we in India place similar protests, like it is in London now, against the people who helped the acceleration of the spread in many places.
Scruple cannot be nurtured by mere preaching but it comes to shape when practised.
Be it election rallies or public meetings, there was hardly any cap on such activities and in our country, no phone call campaigns can ever perturb a politician or the ones who played spoilt-sport in either Shaheen Bagh or Tablighi Jammat.
What lacks here is the absence of a will to own a responsibility and a will to admit.
