The second is for the emerging movements to use what has been effectively used in the Philippines, Ukraine, Thailand, and Nepal — the weapon of ‘people’s power’. Let there be a call to peacefully challenge, through people’s power, such illegitimate usurpation of power. Lohia gave such a call against the denial of civil liberties by the Salazarist administration during the liberation movement of Goa. ‘People’s power’ is a weapon of democracy, especially when it is used to restore the legitimacy of the democratic order.
The writer is senior fellow, CSDS, Delhi
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