Number of working days lost, dramatized suspension of advocates by the Bar Council of India, Unprecedented siege of the High Court of Madras ,mud-slinging on either sides of bench and the bar, and a muddled state of affairs in the entire judicial administration in the state of tamilnadu, ridiculing by the litigant public and the general public together were all we have seen during the seventy odd days of advocates’ agitation in Tamilnadu. Yet they made neither head or tail.
The dust has settled now and forever on the issue and in the hindsight the feeling amongst the right thinking advocates was whether we were justified in protesting the way we did and achieved anything worth the salt. The answer must be a big question mark. They made a mess of everything to be precise.
Leaderless was the agitation, thoughtless was the think tank of the agitation, thoroughly beaten was the agitation itself, browbeaten were the advocates themselves. A fictitious and filmsy satisfaction was all left for the limbs of law who knew the Joint Action Committee has duped them to the core of having achieved something, while very many of us knew it was what the powers that be in yhe administration of justice in Tamilnadu had earlier offered which was there to be grabbed throughout and since there was nothing forthcoming as the JAC thought, the same was accepted and it pretended as though something was achieved.