🔥 WHEN POWER PREACHES LAW — AND PANICS AT ITS OWN REFLECTION 🔥
A door is broken. A man was arrested. And a hypocrisy that shattered louder than the lock.
Politics has many faces.
Principle is rarely one of them.
When the police broke open doors to arrest Savukku Shankar, bjp tamil Nadu president Nainar Nagendran rushed out a condemnation, calling it police excess. The outrage was instant. The language was strong. The posture was righteous.
But here’s the problem:
This very power was legally sanctified by the bjp itself.
So the question writes itself — when the law is yours, how can its execution suddenly be tyranny?
1️⃣ The Law bjp Defended — Until It Was Used
When the Modi government replaced the IPC with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), protests erupted nationwide.
Left parties. Civil rights groups. Lawyers. Activists.
One key objection was chillingly clear:
👉 Police were granted authority to break doors and windows to arrest a person, regardless of whose property it was, based purely on suspicion of presence.
At that time, bjp leaders — including Nainar Nagendran — defended the provision as necessary and lawful.
Fast forward to today.
The same provision is invoked.
And suddenly — outrage?
2️⃣ When Law Is ‘Just’ Only in Opposition States
This isn’t confusion.
This is selective morality.
If the law is just:
It must remain just when applied to critics
It must remain just when applied to supporters
It must remain just when it’s politically inconvenient
You don’t get to applaud power one day and call it arrogance the next.
That’s not democracy.
That’s convenience politics.
3️⃣ The chidambaram Precedent bjp Loves to Forget
Let’s rewind to August 21, 2019.
CBI, ED, and police officials:
At that time:
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita did not exist
Such action was legally questionable
bjp didn’t protest then.
BJP celebrated it.
police “valour” was praised.
Authority was glorified.
Today, the same method — now explicitly legal under the BJP’s own law — is condemned.
The contradiction isn’t subtle.
It’s spectacular.
4️⃣ Moral Lectures from a party That Let Stan Swamy Die
Before preaching ethics, history demands memory.
A frail 84-year-old priest, Stan Swamy, falsely accused, jailed under draconian laws, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, and denied even a simple straw to drink water.
He died in custody.
No apology.
No accountability.
No remorse.
A party that presided over such cruelty has no moral standing to sermonize about police excess today.
5️⃣ The Core Question bjp Cannot Answer
If:
You made the law
You defended the law
You praised its earlier misuse
Then what legitimacy do you have to condemn its application now?
Outrage doesn’t become valid just because the target has changed.
🧨 Final Word
This isn’t about one arrest.
This is about credibility.
You cannot weaponize the law when it suits you and cry foul when it turns around.
You cannot rewrite criminal codes and then disown them.
You cannot cheer broken doors in delhi and condemn them in tamil Nadu.
Power without consistency is hypocrisy.
And hypocrisy, when exposed, is louder than any broken lock.
If you fear the law you created, the problem isn’t the police.
The problem is you.
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