Question

That is like asking the army to disobey the government! Is that democratic?

Answer 1

Jayaprakash Narayan asked the army, police and government employees not to obey orders he considered “illegal and immoral” not to reject every lawful order of the government. In a democracy, public officials must follow lawful directions, but they should not carry out illegal ones. His appeal also heightened the political confrontation and was cited by the government as a threat to the functioning of the state.