The Right to Dissent in the Socio-legal Context: Reimagining Citizenship, Strengthening Democracy ` Let’s agree to disagree’ may sum up the gist of the word `dissent’ in simple terms. Dissent, generally, implies disagreement, criticism, questioning, or protest against the coercive decision or unjust laws and policies imposed by a person/s in authority. Explored in a constructive manner, peaceful and nonviolent dissent may lead to dialogue, open discussions, entrenchment of democratic ideas, undoing injustices, and ending oppression. Collective disobedience often results in a constructive social transformation. However, history depicts that the tyrannical rulers have used tools such as the law and violence to suppress dissent and this repression of diverse voices by the authoritarian states continues during the modern times. Dissent is being construed detrimentally as disobedience and dissenters are perceived as a threat to the law-and-order situation by the authoritarian states. F