The conservative Indian society is having promiscuous political character, I think that the average Indian or the AAM AADMI is so fed up with the electoral system that he participates in it in the most disinterested manner. The suggestion on rejecting the candidate with criminal records is worthy of consideration by the electorate but what will happen where people have to make the choice between the lesser evil of the two then I suggest that the time has come to put another button on the EVM - a button for rejection with the party symbol saying REJECTED and if any candidates receives 5 percent or more of the total votes polled as rejection votes then the election should be declared null and void thus forcing the main political parties to change their rejected candidates . Till this type of deterrent is introduced in the system, the political parties will keep nominating sophisticated goondas to fight elections because elections needs money and muscle power and who else has it in plenty other than these. Another way to look at this problem is that it has been established that the muscle and money both play their role in the elections so let us accept that the problem exists ,understand its depth and width across the political system's spectrum. After understanding this malice fully we need to look for changes which might seem radical today will ensure that the DEMOCRACY in our country is strengthened and it survives .
The politicians of all hues and color have honed the art of governance or misgoverning and making use of the MUTE book called constitution. The present system of governance at both centre and state level can be described as a group of walkers (clean looking , self serving ,dishonest and vain persons) taking a blind donkey( call it People) around a park ( Call it the Pseudo Democracy Park) on a path shown in the mute book( The Constitution) to complete the five year journey in a manner which benefits them the most while starving the donkey which carries them . This has been happening since last six decades. This park is now well known to these walkers and is tended by a huge force of gardeners ( the Bureaucrats) . Both the walkers and gardeners use the muteness of the rule book and ever growing weakness of the donkey by taking short cuts and overloading the donkey with tax burdens.All this actually suit the ends of the bureaucrats to somehow prolong , facilitate and increase the hold of these uneducated or semi literate politicians over a large mass of people who actually are not aware of their rights because they have been deliberately kept uneducated and thus remain disinterested in this political drama which is enacted every five years.
The time is here and now to have a look at the level and competence of those ruling us through the present system The time is now to seek changes in system by a national referendum where the caste factor is nullified, the regions are banished, the clans are influential no more and the lineage does not overcome merit. We actually need a system where accountability of Mumbai like terrorist attacks not only falls on the state home minister who resigns after lot of cajoling but also holds the STATE HOME SECRETARY equally responsible and who should have come out openly and resigned on moral grounds or should have been sacked. Actually they are the ones who should have been taken to task for inaction, for poor intelligence, for no preparedness at all , no anticipation of such events and thereby causing loss to national prestige and loss of innocent lives. This I dare say because bureaucrats are the persons who are actually planning and policy making ( not the minister who actually is more worried to get elected next time or save his place in the cabinet as was the case in Maharashtra ).Till today nation has not seen any Secretary( Bureaucrats) resigning but only Ministers resigning, generals being sacked -be it 1962 Chinese aggression or Mumbai terrorist attack.
For example the desired or proposed system will have only those as ministers who know the subject or portfolio they are supposed to handle and not just because he is one MP of the TWO MEMBER PARTY who is supporting the new dispensation required to reach the magic figure of 272 to keep the govt from losing a no confidence motion. We need to change the system with a better one because this vicious and self serving system is a gift to this nation which has been put in place after a lot of hard wasteful labour and paper work of bureaucrats with the tacit support of political leaders of all parties during the last 63 years who have by collective and willful deceit and profound planning have made a mockery of an excellent well meaning document called INDIAN CONSTITUTION . The biggest beneficiaries of the system are bureaucrats who have settled the system in such a manner that the politician remained at their beck and call while in actuality should have been the other way around . At the same time the system has benefited literate ,not so literate but cunning and clever political leaders , some of them may not qualify for a job( if asked to qualify in a written test and interview) barring a small minority and here in the present dispensation they control cabinet secretaries and other intellectuals. We INDIANS need to have RE- LOOK on the efficacy of our present political and administrative systems !
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