Democracy means-By the People,For the People & Of the People.
Let me tinker with this definition to make it relevant for our nation-
Buy the People,For(ge) the People n Off the People
In today's economy Democracy is available in copious qty only in schools in the followin ways:
1)school pupil leaders n group leaders for every section r elected by fellow schoolmates through a regulated election.
2)The word "DEMOCRACY" keeps occuring repeatedly in Social Studies/Economics Text books upto 10th grade.
A SHORT STORY
Though juvenile,this is the current state of our country.Its an open secret that Family politics is the order of the day.Lets consider this 'hypothetical' case-A becomes PM by virtue of his efforts towards upliftment of the nation,begets a daughter B who becomes PM sans qualifications by virtue of her daughterhood,B begets a son C who completes the transition from a teen brat to a highhanded uncle in a foreign land and also gets hooked to a women with whom he has a son D from there.Next he returns to rightfully becomes the next PM again by virtue of being his mothers son.Then his imported wife suddenly becomes Mother India by virtue of her being the wife of C on his sudden demise.D went abroad and freaked out in the best of educational institutions there, while his mom's party was giving sermons on Sanskriti n other politician friendly desi-topics.D was bored there as he had been to almost all the famous places there,so D comes back to his paternal inheritance a.k.a India and is touted to be the next favourite son of the nation like his forefathers!!
P.S:Resemblance to any politician who is before/behind bars..looting/looted...above/under ground,murdered/murdering,caught/escaped is purely coincidental.Ans also A,B,C & D are alphabets and continue remain so.
CEILING LIMIT
The ruler/ruling party in a democracy should be chosen by the people,not by inheritance or genetic connections,as it ain't Monarchy!!This is a huge pothole in our constitution which requires to be mended at the earliest.For an auditor there's a ceiling limit for the number of company audits he can undertake.Likewise for exporters/traders/manufacturers there is a ceiling limit on their produce/turnover etc.This is to give a fair chance to other players.Similarly,there should be a period/headcount bound ceiling limit on family members who can participate in the political process from a family.If X had served as a minister for 5 yrs,his direct linear ascendant/descendant should become ineligible by default to contest elections for the next 5 yrs.In an ever expanding nation(population wise)...this would sort of give a fair chance to more people to work for the country.
Another main reason for family politcs to develop is existence of political parties were people from a particular family alone sit on the throne of defacto year after year to take the best ministries & cabinets for their family.An auditor cannot be the auditor for a company in which his family members hold shares/work or are interested in anyway.This is to protect the company from the vulnerability of being exploited due to inside trading.This is at micro-economical level!!for political parties.....decisions of which have an macro-economical effect...its ironical that the constitution has not protected the nation from the vulnerability of being controlled according to the whims & fancies of related members of a political party!!!
At this rate of depreciation,democracy would very soon make it to the list of dinosaurs,sabertooth tigers,dodos,culture,good films!!
Let me tinker with this definition to make it relevant for our nation-
Buy the People,For(ge) the People n Off the People
In today's economy Democracy is available in copious qty only in schools in the followin ways:
1)school pupil leaders n group leaders for every section r elected by fellow schoolmates through a regulated election.
2)The word "DEMOCRACY" keeps occuring repeatedly in Social Studies/Economics Text books upto 10th grade.
A SHORT STORY
Though juvenile,this is the current state of our country.Its an open secret that Family politics is the order of the day.Lets consider this 'hypothetical' case-A becomes PM by virtue of his efforts towards upliftment of the nation,begets a daughter B who becomes PM sans qualifications by virtue of her daughterhood,B begets a son C who completes the transition from a teen brat to a highhanded uncle in a foreign land and also gets hooked to a women with whom he has a son D from there.Next he returns to rightfully becomes the next PM again by virtue of being his mothers son.Then his imported wife suddenly becomes Mother India by virtue of her being the wife of C on his sudden demise.D went abroad and freaked out in the best of educational institutions there, while his mom's party was giving sermons on Sanskriti n other politician friendly desi-topics.D was bored there as he had been to almost all the famous places there,so D comes back to his paternal inheritance a.k.a India and is touted to be the next favourite son of the nation like his forefathers!!
P.S:Resemblance to any politician who is before/behind bars..looting/looted...above/under ground,murdered/murdering,caught/escaped is purely coincidental.Ans also A,B,C & D are alphabets and continue remain so.
CEILING LIMIT
The ruler/ruling party in a democracy should be chosen by the people,not by inheritance or genetic connections,as it ain't Monarchy!!This is a huge pothole in our constitution which requires to be mended at the earliest.For an auditor there's a ceiling limit for the number of company audits he can undertake.Likewise for exporters/traders/manufacturers there is a ceiling limit on their produce/turnover etc.This is to give a fair chance to other players.Similarly,there should be a period/headcount bound ceiling limit on family members who can participate in the political process from a family.If X had served as a minister for 5 yrs,his direct linear ascendant/descendant should become ineligible by default to contest elections for the next 5 yrs.In an ever expanding nation(population wise)...this would sort of give a fair chance to more people to work for the country.
Another main reason for family politcs to develop is existence of political parties were people from a particular family alone sit on the throne of defacto year after year to take the best ministries & cabinets for their family.An auditor cannot be the auditor for a company in which his family members hold shares/work or are interested in anyway.This is to protect the company from the vulnerability of being exploited due to inside trading.This is at micro-economical level!!for political parties.....decisions of which have an macro-economical effect...its ironical that the constitution has not protected the nation from the vulnerability of being controlled according to the whims & fancies of related members of a political party!!!
At this rate of depreciation,democracy would very soon make it to the list of dinosaurs,sabertooth tigers,dodos,culture,good films!!
including good films to the list adds mirch to the blog! great one. keep going!
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