The bitter pill for India reprieve ( Part one)

 The bitter pills for India reprieve.   Part 1. 

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1. Introduction: 

1.1. The inherent perils of Democracy. Individuality in thoughts and unrelenting desire and self centric ambition  to gain superiority over the other and being the basic instincts that differentiate the human race, a political setup that envisages a country be ruled by a government of  the people, by  the People and for the People, is more an utopian myth than a realizable reality. It is too ambitious to wish that India, a very young federal nation inheriting long embedded ethnic variations, diverse cultures, social structures, linguistic differences, and  highly dominating regional beliefs and interests, to become such an utopian democratic nation too soon.  This is one of the major perils of our type of democratic process.

Nonetheless, it is only fair for every Indian to aspire to have sober and stable governments at federal level that could take care of the needs of all the people in the country irrespective of their socio economic levels, faith order / religious beliefs or political leaning and their representative strength in the Federal system. For this, it is also imperative that the representatives of the factions outside the ruling parties realize that they are the majority stake holders based on the overall percentage of votes polled, behave with responsibility and cooperate with the progressive programs of the democratically elected ruling coalition government, to push the country forward instead becoming of mere nuisance value by blindly opposing all policies and try to obstruct governance with frivolous reasons.   Democracy is strangled when elected representatives, ignore the needs and aspirations of the people whom they represent. Democracy is strangled, when ‘Playing dirty Politics’ become the main business and theme of the government and political parties inside and outside the government. Democracy is strangled, when the political parties stoop down to use the communal feeling of one group against other to come to power and compelled to oppress other communities to appease them.

In India there are basically two types of majority vote banks; both having sets and subsets of the other. 

i. Majority religion based. By sensitizing the malleable in the majority religion, the politicians keep the country divided for their gains.

ii. The majority of socially and economically weak. Appeased by every party with the carrot that never to be, and ensure they remain so.

iii. A concoction as a mixture of the above two.

1.2. The arithmetic of Coalition Politics.

1. If the regional party is not agreeable for such an understanding, the coalition has to end with end of the term. Any new coalition, if become necessary, is to be formed after the election according to the over all situation.
2. The National parties should put their foot firmly down and bargain for it instead of crying foul afterwards.

c. In spite of the on and off connections with some hard core Hindutva groups here and there, nobody seriously believes that BJP is a non-secular party. The party's pro-Hindutva stance during the election time (which is in fact forced on it by some individual events of electioneering campaigns), is nothing but just a tactics to get into the vote bank and to come to power like they did in the first time.   

d. Similarly many other national parties refuse to come out of the religious shells and grow up beyond communal politics.

Mahatma’s vision is still a mirage.  India is a necklace made of beautiful pearls of different shapes, sizes and color. If we need to become an India as envisaged by Mahatma Gandhi, a secular and non-violent India in the true sense of humanity, we need to go many more miles.  Through the many decades after independence, secularism is always being talked about by every politician, Gandhian or not, but did nothing cohesive to make it a working reality. 

2. Federal Governance needs big change:

The “Much a do about nothing” Governments:

The governments so far, irrespective of their political leanings, did pretty little to transform the country to a welfare nation; other than proclaiming too many redundant policies and empty promises. Elimination of poverty and starvation and availability of basic needs still far dreams for the common man. Lok Pal, Panchayath Raj, Minority Protection Act, more representation and rights for Dalits and Women etc., PURA and other disparate Yojanas and programs are yet to deliver.  

2.1. India need to eradicate poverty; not the poor.

Most of the old school political big wigs think that governance means money making by heavy taxations, levies and duties and using most of it on non-productive government expenses, inefficient PSUs and ill organized programs which only help to fill the coffers of the unscrupulous.

India’s political systems need major change.  

(Continued  in parts 2 - 5)