Read the following passage and answer the questions :
Civil society has become the leitmotif of movements struggling to free themselves from unresponsive and often tyrannical post colonial elites. If the first wave of liberation took place along with decolonization, the second wave comes up against those very elites who had taken power after decolonization. I see the beginning of an authentic civil society in the voice of those outside the ambit of norms laid down by the state — ecology, gender, class — in the resistance of those who refuse to let the state site its projects wherever it places, in the voice of those who reject corrupt elites in the political passions of those whose nerves are not numbed by consumer capitalism, in the letters to the newspapers, in oral communication. These are people who do not opt out of civil society but who demand that the state deliver what it has promised in the Constitution and the law, who demand state accountability, who expand the sphere of rights to encompass those which has arisen out,of the struggles of the people.
What does the author mean by “authentic civil society” ?
- APeople who have lost faith in parliamentary system
- BCitizens who are not corrupt but do not vote
- CCitizens who passionately advocate the cleansing of institutional mal- practices and Societal injustices through non parliamentary methods
- DActivists who want moral accountability and judicial redress of all wrong doings in society
Explanation
The passage locates authentic civil society in non-parliamentary cleansing of institutional malpractices.