The tenets of the Indian Democracy

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22 August, 2009

In the democratic electoral system, people become the superior power who can decide a Government by casting their judgement. It is through the election process that vacant posts in the Parliament or the Legislative Assembly are filled up.

LOOKING INTO the conventional political system of India, it can easily be assumed that the so called politicians are only playing with the sentiments of the common people; creating new issues before every election which are not really in connection with the problems faced by them.

It has been suggested that some of these parties used to create such circumstance themselves, like communal riots, bomb blasts, extremist groups etc. As such a situation arises, the ruling party blames the opposition, that it is a political conspiracy and the opposition will start shouting that the government has totally failed to control the law and order situation.

In the democratic electoral system people become the superior power who can decide a Government by casting their judgement. It is through the election process that vacant posts in the Parliament or the Legislative Assembly are filled up. Now the question is that there must be some guideline for eligibility like age limit, educational qualification, past experience, criminal record etc to apply for these posts.

Unfortunately there are no such concrete guidelines in our parliamentary system. Even if they exist, it is very difficult to maintain the rules because of the slow and complicated judiciary system. As a result, the Lok-Sabha of ten has MPs with criminal records or without any educational qualification.

If we go through a reasonable analysis the of the election process, it can be easily compared to the normal job recruitment process. The person who joins a service through a recruitment process is a 'servant'. Now it can easily be understood that the nominated candidates has applied for the service of MP or MLA is a servant of the people and he is offering his candidature to serve the country ie the people.

So, people have full authority to take a proper interview of the candidates and also to take a commitment letter duly signed by the candidate for the development of the locality where it will be clearly written that if the commitments are not fulfilled, the people of the constituency have the full right to reject the candidate as their representative or the candidate should resign from his post.

The so called politicians think that after winning the election, they have to earn themselves and before election they have to distribute a small amount of their five year long earned money among the poor, needy and hungry people. So the greater developmental issues are submerged under individual interest. Before the elections, they hold war of words, where every political party is abusing each other. Our question is that where is the public motive or agenda in the muck-raking. Where is the agenda, which really deals with the problems of the people? And why should the people vote for the politicians who don't have any real ideology to work for social, educational, health and economic upliftment of the people.

Since few of the educated masses didn't taking any active part in the political system directly so it was believed that they do not have the right of abusing the government. We have to be in the system to change the system? Forty per cent of the total population of India comprises of youth and as a result the youth community has become a decisive factor for the Indian politics. Now a days we have seen a tremendous change in the political arena that maximum numbers of educated and highly qualified youth have joined the politics, which can be assumed as a good sign for Indian democratic system.

From Rahul Gandhi to Agatha Sangma, a wave of young blood has given a new spirit to the democratic system of India. Now India is Shining.