Ensuring the survival of democracy in India is the greatest justification for doing away with the law on sedition and unleashing the full potential of the freedom of speech, says a new book. In "A Constitution to Keep: Sedition and Free Speech in Modern India", Supreme Court lawyer Rohan J Alva takes a 360-degree view of the much-debated law of sedition and seeks to demystify crucial aspects of it for the common reader.
"To allow sedition to hang like the sword of Damocles over the heads of the Indian people is to give the kiss of death to political speech, and in turn to Indian democracy itself. Ensuring the survival of Indian democracy is the greatest justification for doing away with the law on sedition and unleashing the full potential of the freedom of speech," he argues.
