As I pored over fundamental rights and freedoms indited in the new constitution I felt as if I was basked in an ocean of tranquility. Lines from the nation’s most prestigious documents appeared to me as poetized verses inscribing a much desired yet a utopian dream.
After many decades I would declare that the people of our nation have once again started to believe in dreams. While the yellow kind is haste and genuine the blue kind is a bit slow and cautious when it comes to believing in dreams. The dream of which I’m talking here is no ordinary dream but rather a dream induced by the Maldivian constitution, whose characteristics are codified in the whole of chapter two.
Chapter two of the constitution of the Maldives talks about liberty, privileges and quality of life the people of this beloved nation has been desperately in pursuit of over an elongated period of time.
It talks about the mother’s dream of guaranteeing her offspring as well as herself and her husband nutritious food and clean water. It ignites an ordinary father’s dream of assuring his son an education from the same school where the son of a better-off farther studies. It entitles lover to be enlaced in sacred matrimony, and enjoy the privacy of their home, either acquired or inherited, which is lit with electricity. Furthermore it give a platform for the wrongly accused to prove his innocence and the culprit to be convicted through the means of an expeditious fair and transparent trial.
I know that those of you have read this fare might be contemptuously deriding what I have written above. If you are I totally understand your ambivalence. To a certain degree but not entirely it can be said that chapter two of the constitution is yet a legally warranted work of fiction, as the freedoms and rights stated it is only visible as text in black on white paper. It’s not visible in our lives.
Comparative study of the renowned “Aneh Dhiveirajje Manifesto” with chapter two of the constitution revealed to me one thing – the five pledges more or less falls under the chapter two, fundamental rights and freedoms. This could be an indication of government’s priority in delivering the people with their rights and freedom. I consider it as an excellent choice for (a) These five pledges are of utmost importance to the people and is within a defined time frame of five years. (b) During the process of delivering the people with the five pledges there are chances that other articles of in chapter II might consequently be executed. All in all we got a long way to go and we can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Whether it’s an individual’s success or countries prosperity it takes time and dear sacrifices. The people of our generation could be referred as the pioneer citizens to whom belonged the green book. BUT we might not live to see each and every article in the green book materializes. On the contrariwise ours and few more generations ahead might have to make a lot of sacrifices for instance when decentralization and privatization revolutionizes Maldives forever. We have begun a dream that would be shared for the generations to come. Could we be called the sacrificed generations for democracy?
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