Discussion on Police Action and Democracy

They were saying that Devendra Fadnavis is a soft-hearted man. He did not order a baton charge on us.

He let us protest. Whereas in Delhi, we saw that there was

a lot of anger over the way the baton charge was carried out, the way

the police brutality took place.

The thing is,

if I

feel like abusing your boss,

I’ll say Sahil is a good man, the boss is bad.

The problem is the boss. Sahil is a very good man. There’s no one like Sahil.

It’s very common.

Sahil should not be happy about this. Sahil should not fail to understand this.

Sahil should understand this. If Sahil does not understand this,

that, brother, why are they saying Sahil is a very good man, then

sorry to say, but there can be no greater foolishness than this.

Right, Sahil? Look, if they were sincerely praising him,

I would gladly accept the praise and thank them too.

Gives praise. But I know the intent behind that praise.

There is a trap.

That's why such praise…

All right. But I want to tell you this: normally,

in Maharashtra,

our policy has always been

to engage as much as possible.

And unless there is extreme harm to law and order,

meaning unless it reaches an extreme level of harm, then

we do not use force.

But sometimes it happens. Look at what happened in Delhi.

If these people had gone to Parliament,

that would not have been the issue. Some people would go to Parliament and vandalize it.

This brings disrepute to the country,

it brings disrepute to the police force, and sends this message to the world

that, look, what a weak democracy this is, what a weak country it is,

where people enter its Parliament and, inside Parliament,

vandalism of a kind takes place. This is not good for the country. For the country…

Ultimately, what serves as a deterrent for us, in the world, is a

strong country. That is detrimental to it.

So, sometimes it also becomes necessary that

when no one is willing to comply, people take the law into their own hands.

They break the constitutional system and those arrangements, then

force has to be used. But

the use of force should be the last resort, and in Maharashtra, we

make every effort, with great restraint, that force should be used as little as possible.

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