Lipika, ICFAI University Dehradun
ABSTRACT
This article attempts to explore our Right to Protest and investigate its importance. It will also discuss the position of protest in the Fundamental Rights of the constitution. If viewed positively, protests have many characteristics that can help in the country’s improvement. Protests have played a major role in older times. Many citizens of different countries had used protests as a tool for the betterment of society. Apart from it, the government has started looking at protests as a threat to the state and that perspective leads to chaos between the state and the people of the state.
Due to rising disputes, Supreme Court interfered in the matters of Protest and there are also some leading cases related to protest in which Apex Court had given landmark judgment. Executive can use those judgments before taking any actions against protestors. Executive authority can only take measures against unlawful and violent protests.
There is everything in this article that a normal citizen of India should know about their right to question the government.
