मई दिवस बीते वर्षों में !!

Posted By: Mukesh Sethon: May 01, 2021In: संपादकीयNo Comments

के. विक्रम राव

आज मई दिवस (विश्व श्रमिक दिवस) पर 2019 तथा 2015 पर प्रसारित मेरी पोस्ट को पेश कर रहा हूं। केवल भूली बिसरी याद को ताजा करने हेतु। गुगुल ने भेजा है। कम्युनिस्ट चीन द्वारा जन्माये कोरोना कीटाणु से व्याप्त महामारी के कारण आईएफडब्ल्यूजे इस वर्ष पारम्परिक मजदूर दिवस नहीं मना पा रहा है।

1 मई 2019

इंदिरा गांधी का लोकशाही से प्रेम !

के. विक्रम राव
आज के ही दिन (1 मई 1978 को) छठी लोकसभा ने भारत को फिर से लोकतांत्रिक बनाया था| अधिनायकवाद का खात्मा हुआ था | 44वाँ संविधान संशोधन संसद ने मोरारजी देसाई के प्रधानमंत्री काल में आज ही के दिन पारित किया गया था| भारत ने दूसरी आजादी पायी थी| पहली (15 अगस्त 1947) को आयी थी | तब अंग्रेजों से मुक्ति मिली थी| इस बार इंदिरा गांधी की कांग्रेस की निरंकुशता से|
इमरजेंसी (25 जून 1975) घोषित कर इंदिरा गांधी ने हिटलर और मुसोलिनी से भी दुगने अधिकार हासिल कर लिये थे| उनके 42वें संविधान संशोधन (3 जनवरी 1977) में निर्दिष्ट प्रावधानों के अनुसार उच्चतम और सभी न्यायालय संसद के मातहत कर दिए गए| कोई भी कानून, जैसा भी हो, अदालत के विचार तथा अपील से बाहर रखा गया| लोकसभा की अवधि को पांच वर्ष से बढ़ाकर छः वर्ष कर दिया गया| मौलिक अधिकार (संपत्ति की, जीवन, अभिव्यक्ति) आदि कभी भी निरस्त या संशोधित किये जा सकते थे| नागरिक को बिना अदालती कार्यवाही के कैद किया जा सकता था| संविधान के संशोधन हेतु राष्ट्रपति को अधिकार मिल गया था कि वे कार्यकारी आदेश द्वारा संविधान बदल, निरस्त या संशोधित कर सकते थे| जब यह 42वाँ संशोधन पारित हुआ था, तो विपक्ष के अधिकतर सदस्य जेलों में नजरबन्द थे| केंद्र सरकार के एटार्नी जनरल निरेन डे ने सर्वोच्च न्यायालय को सूचित किया था कि पुलिस किसी भी नागरिक को गोली मार सकती है | राज्य को अधिकार मिला कि वह कोई भी निजी संपत्ति हथिया सकती थी| कुल मिलाकर दरोगा राज था| हमलोग जेल के अन्दर ज्यादा स्वतंत्र थे, बनिस्बत बाहर रह रहे भारतीय जन के|
जनता सरकार पार्टी बनते ही 44वाँ संविधान संशोधन लाकर उपरोक्त बाधाओं का खात्मा किया गया| साथ ही इमरजेंसी थोपने की वैधानिक धाराओं को इतना कठोर बना दिया गया कि इंदिरा गांधी-टाइप की तानाशाही दुबारा लागू नहीं की जा सकती है| अर्थात् एडोल्फ हिटलर और बेनिटो मुसोलिनी का भारत में अवतार सदैव के लिये बंद हो गया| इंदिरा गांधी के वंश के लिये यह चेतावनी भी थी|

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1 मई 2015

Supreme Court “Hurt” India

Former Congress Ministers Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid must be disciplined by their party boss Sonia Gandhi for appearing last week in the Supreme Court for print media warlords, challenging the Justice #Majithia wage award for working journalists and newspaper employees. This wage award was unanimously endorsed by the Manmohan Singh Cabinet in October 2011. Sibbal and Khurshid had as ministers voted for the award which was officially notified after Parliament with one voice approved it. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi joined the two to complete the triangle. In fact Sonia Gandhi should have ordered her party lawyers (Sibbal and Khurshid) to press the court for implementation of the Majithia wage award. Precisely that was done by her late mother-in-law Indira Gandhi when she told her colleague late Uma Shankar Dixit, once managing director of the The National Herald group of dailies, to pay wages according to the Justice D G Palekar award to workers of her family-owned journals in 1980. It would have set an example before media sharks. The BJP unashamedly stands for the high priests of corporate oppression. Should Sonia Congress lawyers also imitate the BJP culture?
The @Indian Indian Federation of Working Journalist – IFWJ had desired jail term for the contemnors (media barons) as they treated with contempt the Supreme Court order of Chief Justice (Retd.)P.Sadashivam to implement the wage award.
The Supreme Court had jailed contemnors on earlier occasions. It had sent to prison Marxist leader EMS Namboodaripad (31 July, 1970), BJP leader Kalyan Singh (now Rajasthan Governor) (December 1992) and Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy (6 March, 2002) to uphold the “majesty of the judiciary”. They were all punished for personal utterances. But in the present case a pack of habitual offenders is willfully defying the Supreme Court and making mockery of judicial system.
But on 28April, 2015 when the case was listed before the Supreme Court, hundreds of thousands of journalists and newspaper workers from all over India expected Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice N V Ramana to send these contemnors to the Tihar Jail. But they merely directed State Governments to submit in three months through their labour departments a report on the status of wage revision. This means further delay and thus patent denial of justice. In fact in its hearing on 10 March, 2015 the Supreme Court had categorically ruled that “There will be no further adjournment”, on next hearing (28 April, 2015) . The IFWJ and other unions had often expressed total lack of faith in the corrupt state labour machinery. The IFWJ fears that the state labour officers will only submit a report dictated by the exploiting owners.
The IFWJ had asked its State Units to follow the Gandhian methods of staging dharnas, protest rallies and demonstrations before State Labour Departments, demanding that their report to the Supreme Court should state only the truth. And the truth is that newspaper owners have contemptuously defied the Sathasivam bench order to implement the Majithia wage scales. Who can confirm this fact better than the employees?
In this direction a positive start was made today, May Day, at the IFWJ labour rally in U.P. Press Club when a senior Cabinet Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav allayed journalists’ fears. He told a cheering audience that his socialist government will ensure that the State labour department sends a true and faithful report on the implementation or otherwise of the Majithia wage award by U.P. newspapers to the Supreme Court within four months.
A well knit UPWJU monitoring committee will keep vigilant eye on the state labour department work. It will have Siddharth Kalhans, President of Lucknow Working Journalists Union, Prem Kant Tiwari, General Secretary of UPWJU, and Comrade Uma Shankar Mishra, Vice President of the National Federation of Newspaper Employees and a former member of the Majithia wage board.
The IFWJ may not say so but we can certainly quote what EMS Namboodaripad, Marxist leader, had said about the judiciary: “It instinctively favours the rich and is dominated by class hatred” (the Hindu, 9 November, 1967). For this he was jailed for a day and fined Rs.5/- on 31 July, 1970. Justice (Retd.) K T Thomas of the Supreme Court had (10 November, 2007) on this case remarked that the Supreme Court has erred, “Courts have a tendency to rule in favour of the pot-bellied (rich) litigants”, he said.
Should the IFWJ then pray to whom for justice? To the ultimate judge Lord Yama Dharmaraja, the final dispenser of mundane justice?