Sunday, 8 March 2009
Is this Democracy
India is one of the biggest democracy in the world and infact America imported polling machines from India to hold its elections and the Election Commission of India is consulted by various countries for holding elections in a systematic manner. Does this make India a democratic country? Some would say why not. After all millions of people in India cast their votes to elect their representatives but still is this democracy. Jawaharlal Nehru was our first Prime Minister and intersestingly his daughter became Prime Minister whose son Rajiv Gandhi also became our Prime Minister. This does not sound democracy to me. This is no different than a monarchy where a king's son/daughter inherit the throne of a country. One example is not sufficient to emphasise the point I am making. Orissa's current Chief Minister is a son of Orissa's former Chief Minister. Kashmir's chief Minsiter shares the same heritage. Devegowda who enjoys the privilege of being the CM and PM of our country ensured that his son also tasted the power of becoming a CM. Stalin in Tamil Nadu is lining up to replace Karunanidhi. Akhilesh Yadav, son of Mulayam is getting ready to hold the reigns of Samajwadi Party in UP. Madhav Rao Sindhiya's son is already a sitting MP. Bal Thackeray will some day anoint his son as the king of Shiv Sena. Sanjay Dutt convicted for TADA is raring to join politics; his sister is already an MLA. Democracy is just a farce in India; a ludicrous idea and we as Indians have been made to believe that we are living in a democracy. Politics in India has become a business where the the sons/daughters inherit it from their parents.Democracy gives us the choice to choose but our politicians have masterminded a plot where you are given an illusion of making a choice. Did we chose Manmohan Singh democratically? Are we being asked if Rahul Gandhi should take over as the leader of Congress party. I guess just voting for the politicians in the election does not warrant a democracy. Democarcy in India is nothing but a shameless act of nepotism. We have to break out of this matrix , open our eyes to the realilty and come out of this pseudo democracy otherwise by the time we realise this, someone serving a life imprisonment sentence would be making a speech from Red fort and we would be cheering, waving our national flag and proudly telling our generations to come- This indeed is democracy.
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Democracy in India is a mockery.It is means to grab power by hook or by crook.Principles, ideals,morals, values and dedications are thoughts of past days in Indian democracy.As per data issued by ECI after last general election,only 40% of voters cast their votes and 60% sat idle in their homes.They hardly bother - who is going to rule their country and in which manner.No ruling party in any state gets even 50% of so called popular votes, polled. A party getting around 20% of polled votes forms a government and claims to have got JANADESH.In fact they enjoy the support of only 10% of the population which includes booth capturing and rigging etc.All govts are formed by tricks. they seldom represent the wishes of the people.Pre poll and post poll alliances are other big jokes. National Conference and Congress fought against each other by tooth and nail in J&K but after election, they were in romance, formed an alliance and shared power be fooling the voters. There are three alliances presently in shape on national level to contest forthcoming Lok Sabha polls - BJP led NDA,Congress led UPA and third front of CPM,CPI and other dissidents local parties. All these three alliances are opposing each other in the name of nationalism, secularism and terrorism. It is a known fact that the the coming Lok Sabha will be a hung one.Parties opposing each other will definitely form a post poll alliance and share powers to eat sweet products of Indian democracy for 5 years. Will it not be termed as a serious cheating with biggest democracy of the world and people of India?
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