Failure of Indian democracy
Why elections are not an answer to corruption.
Imagine that party A indulges in widespread loot and corruption. It is voted out and party B comes to power. It now has two options:
a) Be honest. Win the next election. Gain = zero
b) Be corrupt. Lose the next election. Gain= a few thousand crores in the bank account
Which option would a party take?
The fight is against entrenched corruption in the political system. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Indian democracy is a failure. It is becoming a failure now, although it was not a failure earlier. The first stage was universal franchise, which has been achieved. Now the child moves from class one to class two. Obviously he cannot pass class two one class one syllabi.
In a democratic model, especially of India, it was implicit that people would become, better, aware and more assertive with the help of the government that they have elected. Obviously this has not happened. People remain illiterate, poor and afraid of authority. Every five years they go and cast their vote and come back to live the same wretched life. This has been going on decade after decade. The time has come to question this mode of governance.
Just because the majority of impoverished, caste-ridden, unaware or weak voters are resigned to a certain way of governance, must the minority who is not so poor, afraid and unaware keep on accepting their soiled way of life?
There have been innumerable issues that have been decided in this country based on sentiments of a section of people. These range from quotas, community related issues, crimes, everything. Why is that people are falling back on the now impotent universal franchise when the issue is corruption.
If a government has made plans to complete loot a nation in 5 years, should we wait for the elections to vote it out of power. Let us say they have made a pact to share half of the loot with the alternative formation, what do we do then?
There does not seem to be enough discussion on this matter. Media , as always, is engrossed with how many islands baba ramdev has, and which sari he was wearing and what congress running dogs barked.
Where is the meat?
