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Ruckus inside the Kerala Legislative Assembly- The mockery of democracy

Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Ranjith Mohan Today will probably go down as a the darkest day in the history of Kerala Assembly. There was mayhem  inside the assembly. The reason being that the finance minister of the state who is tainted by the corruption charges was hell bent of presenting the budget. Now what made the situation more chaotic is the fact that the opposition had stated that this will not allowed and they wanted somebody else to present the budget. This seemed to be a legitimate demand as the minister could have easily stepped aside and could have come back after clearing his name. But it seems his ego played the better of him.  What as a citizen enrages me more is the fact that these leaders once they get elected thinks that it is their fundamental right to do what they want with scant regard for the common who on the first place had elected them. They think they are above and beyond the law. What else can explain the crass regard for the well