Democratic debate in the country and the possibility of disagreement with the government decreased: Amartya Sen.

New Delhi, 28 December 2020 Monday

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has expressed his displeasure over the lack of debate and disagreement in the country, claiming that people are being sent to jail without being prosecuted on arbitrary treason charges, though the BJP, which is at the center of Amartya Sen's allegations. The allegations have been dismissed as baseless.

In an emailed interview, Harvard University professor Sen backed the farmers' movement against the Centre's three agricultural laws, stressing that there was a strong basis for reviewing the laws.

He said anyone who is not being liked by the government could be declared a terrorist by the government, and sent to jail, limiting or shutting down many occasions of public demonstrations and free discussion.

The eminent economist said that as dissent and the likelihood of discussion diminishes, people are being sent to FIRA jail without being arbitrarily accused of treason, he lamented the fact that there are frequent enemies with young activists like Kanaya Kumar, Shehla Rashid and Umar Khalid. Is treated as.

He said young non-violent demonstrators like Kanaya or Khalid or Shehla and visionary leaders were being treated as enemies instead of being treated like political property, when they should have been given opportunities to pursue their interests peacefully in the interest of the poor. .

Although BJP's West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh has refuted Sen's allegations, he said that if Amartya Sen wanted to see what intolerance was, he should travel to a state where no opposition party has any democratic right to hold its own program.