No one can be above a Citizen in a democracy
Accordingly Sita Soren challenged the decision of the high court in the supreme Court. Later, this matter passed through the two-member bench and reached the seven-member Constitution bench. Therefore, the supreme court has clearly stated in the order of march 4 that the rajya sabha elections are within the ambit of Article 194(2). The supreme court called these privileges parliamentary privileges. On this basis, the purpose of parliamentary privilege applies equally to the elections of the rajya sabha as well as the elections of the President and the Vice-President.
Perhaps this decision of the supreme court needs a wide discussion among the common people of the country. This is not a discussion limited to just one or two days. If parliament and the parliamentary process are to be kept impartial and trustworthy in the future, then in this direction the public should be prepared to ask more prompt questions to their public representatives, political parties and their leaders.
Moreover only when this happens will the public representatives give importance in practice to the discussion of considering the citizen as paramount in the work of the legislature. Instead of considering ourselves as respectable, we will consider the common people of the country as respectable. When the common people of the country become aware of the Constitution and its provisions and start continuously questioning it, only then will political parties and leaders stop promoting the discourse in which MPs and MLAs are considered respectable.
Here by honorable I mean considering oneself supreme in the parliamentary system. Be it the President or the Prime Minister, MPs, MLAs or judges of different courts, no one can be above a citizen in a democracy. Everyone needs to understand this. There should be a comprehensive discussion on civil privileges in future. Political parties and leaders should be forced to find ways to ensure citizen privileges. From parliament to roads, from elections to government and political policies, no issue can be more important than this.