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A riot of losers: On the violence of Jair Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil

Bolsonaro should concede (स्वीकार करना) defeat and ask his supporters to stand down

Well before he was defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in last year’s presidential elections in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro had repeatedly said that if he failed to get re-elected, it could only be through fraud. He called his political rivals “thieves” and warned of violence if voted out. After his election defeat, he refused to concede publicly. Two days ahead of Lula’s inauguration (उद्घाटन) on January 1, he left Brazil for Florida, while his supporters continued to stage camped protests outside Brasilia’s Army headquarters. Unsurprisingly, a week after Lula was inaugurated, thousands of Mr. Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the institutional trinity (त्रिमूर्ति, त्रिदेव) of Brazil democracy — the presidential palace, the Supreme Court and Congress — saying the election was stolen and demanding that the military shut down Lula’s government. Mr. Bolsonaro has to take the blame for what happened in Brasilia on Sunday, which was reminiscent (याद दिलाने वाला, संकोची) of the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters. While in power, he had flirted (To move erratically) with the anti-institution, conspiracy-peddling (To carry from place to place for sale at retail) far-right fringes (A decorative border of thread, cord or usually hanging loosely from an edge) of Brazilian polity. Mr. Bolsonaro, a fan of the military dictatorship (तानाशाही, निरंकुशता), had little respect for the country’s institutions. His silence, along with support from Brazil’s wealthy classes, seems to have empowered (सशक्तिकरण, अधिकार देना) the protesters to invade (आक्रमण करना) state institutions on Sunday.

For Lula, the riots posed the first major challenge to his presidency. He said the local police, under the control of Brasilia’s Governor Ibaneis Rocha, a Bolsonaro ally (मित्र, साथी), did not do enough to stop the invaders. But Lula quickly deployed federal (संघीय, संयुक्त) security officials, clearing the rioters of state buildings. The Supreme Court also stepped in, ordering the military police to clear the camps of Mr. Bolsonaro’s supporters outside the military headquarters, and removed Mr. Rocha from office for three months. But that is not enough. For its own political stability (स्थिरता), Brazil should put an end to this election-related crisis. Until now, its institutions have dealt with threats from the fringe groups with maturity (परिपक्वता, अवधि). But Brazil, a relatively young democracy, has a not-so-distant violent past and its leaders should not entertain any kind of threat to its democratic stability. Brazil should get to the bottom of the riots through a thorough probe (जांच, तहक़ीक़ात); bring all the culprits (अपराधी), from the instigators and the financiers to the participants, to justice; and make sure that such an incident does not occur again. Meanwhile, the least Mr. Bolsonaro could do, pending probe, is to publicly concede that he was defeated in the elections, and ask his supporters to accept this fact and respect the country’s Constitution.

Courtesy: The Hindu

Important Word List With Meaning

1.Concede (Verb)

Hindi Meaning - स्वीकार करना
English Meaning - To acknowledge as true.

2.Inauguration (Noun)

Hindi Meaning - उद्घाटन
English Meaning - An act of inaugurating.

3.Trinity (Noun)

Hindi Meaning - त्रिमूर्ति, त्रिदेव
English Meaning - The Christian godhead – the union of three persons (father, son, and holy spirit) in one godhead.

4.Reminiscent (Adjective)

Hindi Meaning - याद दिलाने वाला, संकोची
English Meaning - Tending to remind one of something.

5.Dictatorship (Noun)

Hindi Meaning - तानाशाही, निरंकुशता
English Meaning - A country or a form of government where absolute power is exercised by a dictator.

6.Empower (Verb)

Hindi Meaning - सशक्तिकरण, अधिकार देना
English Meaning - To give power by legal means.

7.Invade (Verb)

Hindi Meaning - आक्रमण करना
English Meaning - Enter someone's land or property without permission to occupy it.

8.Ally (Noun)

Hindi Meaning - मित्र, साथी
English Meaning - Something united with another

9.Federal (Adjective)

Hindi Meaning - संघीय, संयुक्त
English Meaning - Pertaining to the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states.

10.Stability (Noun)

Hindi Meaning - स्थिरता
English Meaning - The state or quality of being stable.

11.Maturity (Noun)

Hindi Meaning - परिपक्वता, अवधि
English Meaning - The state of being mature.

12.Probe (Noun)

Hindi Meaning - जांच, तहक़ीक़ात
English Meaning - A crucial investigation.

13.Culprit (Noun)

Hindi Meaning - अपराधी
English Meaning - A person responsible for an offense.

14.Flirt (Verb)

English Meaning - To move erratically.

15.Peddle (Verb)

English Meaning - To carry from place to place for sale at retail.