Equal before the law

Law enforcers in India are well known for discriminating between people in power and those who are not. So, when they choose to apply the law uniformly, the occasion is worth noting. Recently, members of Parliament (MPs) from the Left parties held a protest outside Parliament House in support of the two-day nationwide bandh called by trade unions. One MP tried recording a video of the protests on his iPad. The security officer immediately stepped in and urged him to stop filming on grounds that only authorised media people were allowed to film inside the Parliament complex, and the MP duly obliged.