Democratic principles and values are drained and emptied when you don’t have opposition parties in a government, a situation to fail the democratic mechanism. In other words, rooms for rejection of the injected democratic temper will be paved in a free-drive or speed-breaker free government as populism overwhelms the whole argument and consideration. The other trend is that you often see cases of brutal assaults on democratic principles, thanks to unchecked and unbalanced set-up.It brings into mind that in the absence of the Opposition front which is considered as the conscience keeper to a great extent, any decision of the government or the people at the helm will masquerade as the truth or the rightful authority. This is nothing but the devastation of democracy. We know arbitrary and despotic behavior of a government is checked by the Opposition parties in democracy but “to work for the Naga solution” the principal Opposition Congress legislators are now in the treasury bench. With this, ours is a democracy that may not fulfill its namesake. Several commentators of the state have been saying that sans the Opposition the usual ruckuses and pandemonium during the assembly business are assuaged. Whatever the people at the helm desire will also be ‘okayed’ without much effort after a simple formality is carried out in the Assembly session. This is also to say that no one is there for the policing job in such time when the government becomes despotic. Yes, we do have pressure groups and the media but they have limitations for the reason that they cannot gain much leverage in the absence of the Opposition. They can be only moral policemen but again if the other party is insensitive to moral bindings then the question of relevance of the former crops up.
