To change the Political system in India do we need a revolution?

Dear Balaji,

You are right to some extent, BUT, who will bell the cat to change the Representation of Peoples Act to prescribe and revert from multi-party system to two party system when at each occasion a disgruntled politician prefers to create another party. It is the people, who can compel them by discarding them and withdrawing their representatives through their annual appraisal system, if introduced for each of the elected representative to be reviewed by public in general through referendums.

MPs and MLAs must take a mandate on annual basis from voters of their constituency, like self appraisal is prescribed for the service people. SO, WHY NOT MPs or MLAs? Whosover is unable to get majority vote from the voters, must be shunted out.

VOTE OUT WILL BE THE RIGHT OPTION TO GET RID OF PRESENT POLITICAL SYSTEM, BUT WE HAVE TO WAIT WITH PATIENCE FOR SOMETIME TILL NEXT ELECTIONS. 

ONLY BABA RAMDEV AND THE PERSONS ASSOCIATED WITH BHARAT SWABHIMAN HAS CAPABILITY TO MAKE INDIA PROSPEROUS, RECENTLY  ON 27 FEB AT RAMLILA MAIDAN IN DELHI WE HAVE ALREADY  SEEN THE GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE FROM ALL CASTE AND COMMUNITIES FOR THE REMOVAL OF BHARASTACHAR FROM INDIA.THEY GATHERED THERE FOR OUR BENEFIT.THEY TRAVELED FROM REMOTE AREA TO DELHI CALLED BY BABA RAMDEV TO MAKE INDIA FREE FROM CORRUPTION. A CORRUPTION FREE COUNTRY MEANS A PROSPEROUS COUNTRY, A HAPPY COUNTRY, A TRANSPARENT COUNTRY,AN EDUCATED COUNTRY. SO IT HAS BECOMES OUR DUTY TO SUPPORT BABA RAMDEV IN COMING ELECTION SO THAT HIS PARTY COULD MAKE THE GOVERNMENT AND COULD ESTABLISH PEACE AND TRANQUILITY IN THIS COUNTRY AND COULD MAKE INDIA FREE FROM ANY BHRASTACHAR. THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION LEFT BUT BABA RAM DEV TO MAKE INDIA PROSPEROUS.

EDUCATE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR A RIGHT CANDIDATE

In any democratic system like India, revolution is NOT at all necessary. The need is only to understand the voting rights, its importance, and its proper use by the people.

SO, there is ONLY the need to educate people to exercise their voting right properly and vote for right candidate only to weed out the corrupt persons from power.

Dear Sunil,

Ultimately Baba Ramdev and persons of Bharat Swabhiman will also have to approach people of India only, as they won't be able to throw any Government out without the help of the people's voting power.

Do we need an Egyptian-like revolution to change the political system. NO. That would worsen the situation esp. in a country with diverse political agendas.

So what other ways can be adopted - Have a multi-pronged strategy not at a govt. level but at an individual level:

1. Educate the masses including girls
2. Vote out criminals, vote in educatd politicians with a clean record
3. Dispose age old legal system where convicts are either protected or bailed and inject a modified legal system that shreds off the Britishness in it.
4. <Any other ideas, you are welcome to add here - Otherwise, GET IDEA>

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" - JFK

I do believe that the selection process of the candidates in election whether at municipal corporation level or at lok sabaha level, must be improved. i mean the candidate for whom we have to cast the vote are more or less similar, perhaps if we can gat an option of casting a vote for an option none of the above and the candidates are barred from the successive election we can atleast get some quality representative for ourselves. even if we ensure that we vote, whom we are selecting is the most important question, and the choices we get at almost similar. I do also believe if we dont give or accept bribes, the condition will surely improve. what I feel is that we dont have an aggressive opposition at centre and since independence we are giving chance to only one ideology(congress). This is now high time to change our our preferences and one has to think above himself.

Why need a revolution when the power vested on citizen itself. Let me enumerate some points to be followed by citizen for effective & fast reforms in political system.

 1. Ensure that you vote: Voting is a fundamental duty of every citizen. If you wnat to enjoy fundamental rights you have to observe fundamental duties to the nation. Many thinks that voting is unnecessary & can be ignored. The result is only 60% turn out out of which if one manages 30% votes gets elected. Effectively one needs only 18% mandate to rule. Thus corrupt politicians manage this 18% using policy divide & rule. Vote bank politics has the base on non-voting by mostly middle class that is approximately 40% of total votes.

2. Don't sale your votes:- Many sale their votes in cash & kind. Many prefer to vote on caste line. Electing a represantative is a national duty & should be done strictly on merit basis. On the other hand let us consider that we say some MLA/MPs are corrupt. Technically they are represnatatives. Thus to whom a corrupt represent? Is not it the corrupt voters?

3. Don't give/accept bribes:- We are very vocal on corruption but never preached the same. We are ready to bribe Police, TTE, officers to get our work done ahead of rightful candidates. We just scream on corruption when we fail to auction a favour for ourselves.

4. Be Responsible: One example will show our attitude. If there is an accident on road & some body lying injured we all prefer to skip this & just passed the site considering why to bother. But when we or some of our relatives/friends lying there in that condition we scream that the passer's by are oppurtunists.

Thus we have a dual charector. Unless & until our charector changes no revolution or any method will work. If we are corrupt, oppurtunists, selfish, unaccountable etc how do we expect our represantatives be clean!!!

Let's change ourselves, all systems including political system will change. Unless civil society is changed no polity can be changed.

Mr. Murthy - How do we vote out a gornment. Once it is elected it stays for 5 years unless afew MPs or MLAs revolt to bring down the government.

And once the government is brought down, then what? Another election and the same kind of blokes come to power.

We cant trust the election processes too. Too many goondas in the payroll of the politicians control the election outcome. Also, one cannot trust the Electronic Voting Machine. Please see this Youtube film and you will know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlCOj1dElDY.

It is all too rigged and ours is not an honest democratic process. We need a total change in the system and the law as well.

BJP is the option & the best suggested by Mr. Subhash.

Thanks Kavitha for referral. Voting right is a great weapon which many of our people don't take advantage of. So Suryanarayan is correct saying use the voting power to bring in the right combination of good people in forming govt. and you will see the good things being done to the countrymen and the country as a whole.

People's will is the Government. Majorities opinion is counted for governance. If you feel that, majority can be mobilized through Revolution only, then the present Democracy what we have is a fool hardy system. Opinion can be, at present mobilized using available mass medias, for that an interested and dedicated agency is required not a revolution. People's will can do a lot, it can be through electoral process for governing and effective communication of ideology to people through public resources after selecting the Government. Presently, what we see is that we select the Govt. and let rule us and not mobilizing ideas constructively. The process of governing is to be made effective by MASS MEDIA by bridging the people to their governing system that we do not have. Mass media is basically aimed at Business and not as a Service.

Mr. Suryanarayan,

How one can vote out the Government and for how many times, when we have already voted them for a minimum period of 5 years? There is no system for the public to vote out the Government in the Indian Constitution or the Election Law. You will have to per force bear with that once you have already voted in favor of the Government.

this is the best way. one can see what happened to the various revolutions overtime in history resulting in dictatorships, more corrupt governments.  What is happening in cairo and what will be the result one has to wait and see whether they get a better one or worst one only time will tell.  The saying goes revolution eats its own leaders.

Dear Muralidharan,

Egypt model is not necessary for India, as India is not under dictatorship of any one like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt .

Since long years all people just complaining political system should be changed. Give up this shit thinking. Why we not changing ourself. If you are talking about change in politics there is mandatory change in traditional education system. How we can change directly Politics?

Revolution can't be bloodless.What is needed is increasing educational requirement for fighting any election.Also, clean image and character should be a compulsory thing. Only intelligent AND honest people can make India a formidable power.