The Bitter Pills for India Reprieve

The Bitter Pills for India Reprieve. 

Introduction: Integrity and worthiness of any political party is to be judged from the way they conduct themselves in the Parliament and other public forums, making themselves worthy to the ‘People’ who elected them. Democracy is strangled when the elected representatives, ignore the needs and aspirations of the people whom they are supposed to represent. Democracy is strangled, when ‘Playing dirty Politics’ become the main business and theme of the Government and Political parties that support and oppose the government. Democracy is strangled, when the political parties stoop down to use communal feeling of one group against other to come to power and when in power become obliged to oppress the other groups to appease its supporters. In the past six and half decades, for the first time perhaps after the days of Emergency, Democracy is at cross roads again in its choice between a constitutionally functional Parliamentary Democracy with strong political will or to allow the country to deviate towards Marc Anthony’s or Hitler’s style of impulsive populism that will eventually troll the death bells of democracy.

1. The inherent perils in Indian Democracy. Individuality in thoughts, unrelenting desire and self centric ambition to gain superiority over other at any cost and ever growing insatiable greed being the basic instincts that differentiate the human race, a political setup that envisages any 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 made-from-scratch-youngish 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.

"The Bitter Pills for India Reprieve" I wrote this in this community in  toosteps.com few years back.

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Members may also please see my posting Indian Citizens Advisory Community Organization (ICACO) posted many years back in Social and Community affairs community in Toostep.com.