Four senior Supreme Court judges have complained about ‘selective assignment of cases' by the CJI

What does democracy mean for citizens? Is it just voting when the dates come up? Or is it standing for the National Anthem when instructed by someone? Is it worshipping those in power because they are in power? Is it going on strike? Is it insisting that systems work? Is it paying your taxes? Right now, democracy is in danger. Our institutions are being diminished in an insidious manner. The Reserve Bank of India has been weakened by demonetisation. The relationship between Centre and states, far from cooperative federalism, is now based solely on the political parties in power. Constitutional freedoms are threatened. Lawlessness of a particular kind has increased. The Aadhaar system is trampling on all of us, leading to as far as deaths by starvation, not to mention theft and cheating. And now, the problems within the judiciary have spilled over, with four of the most senior Supreme Court judges, barring the chief justice, speaking out about procedures being misused and twisted to the extent that democracy was in danger.