Constitution as Commons: Protesters Invoke Gandhi and Ambedkar in Bid to Reclaim Public Control
At dawn in New Delhi, a widening band of protesters framed their agitation not as a routine political demonstration but as a moral and constitutional struggle over who controls the lives of ordinary citizens. Drawing on Mahatma Gandhi’s ethic of conscience and B.R. Ambedkar’s constitutional vision, the movement is casting the Constitution as a shared public good that must be defended against centralisation, coercion and the erosion of democratic agency.
