Nitin Pai quotes Dr. Ambedkar to rebut Raj Thackeray’s argument that there is nothing wrong with breaking the law while running political movements.
I’m afraid I have to disagree with Nitin, and also with Dr. Ambedkar. Indira Gandhi tried to use the same argument against Jayaprakash Narayan during the emergency. She claimed that because India had adopted a legitimate and democratic constitution, there was no longer space or need for civil disobedience, the satyagraha or any of the various instruments that got us our independence. Narayan disagreed, and which is more, he had Gandhiji on his side. Gandhiji himself had stated that satyagraha was a weapon against oppressive governments everywhere, not just against foreign ones.