Politics without ethics is Disaster

Politics in India is more in limelight for bad reasons. It is often uttered that if you have criminal background, You are eligible for Politics. These are the main reason why India is still unable to emancipate herself from basic problems of destitution, poor health, lack of infrastructure in hinterland. Things are being done only on papers, real beneficiaries are still deprive of their rights. "We are living in a democracy" only we claim, upper class is enjoying their liberty, middle class can percept their existence in a democracy while poor and destitutes are still living in a autocratic regime. For them there is no meaning of "democracy" ,it is all because of the dirty politics of which they often become victim.  What they will do with Right to speech, right to expression, Right to freedom, when they lack basic rights like food, shelter and daily commodities. There is huge lack of Ethics within political arena. Myriad of reasons are there for inhuman activities by Politicians. Somewhere they want to grab excess muscle power to perpetuate their dominance in an area, and on the other hand in the process of accumulation of lots of mammon they forget ethical values. Citizens' entitlements are used by them for their own benefits.

It was political decision to have "Reservation system" but at that time this initiative was taken to eradicate the untouchability, caste based discrimination, and to water it down the "varna system" of our society. Their motives were sacrosanct behind providing reservation to backward class - to make them equal with other caste and class. Now, this reservation system along with political vote bank is proving disastrous for Indian democracy. Where essence of democracy is based on disseminating Equality, unethical and immoral politics is augmenting disparity and enmity among different caste , religion, social groups. Politics without ethics in India is impeding the very purpose of democracy.  It is responsible for enhancing communalism. To perpetuate vote bank they can apply every means whether it is licit or illicit.

Corruption at high level , mainly economic is detrimental for whole country because it involves manipulation of thousands of crores but when it comes to the life of citizens which are at stake at every stage due to political flaws, somewhere due to poor infrastructure which becomes the reason of various fatal accidents. More than half Member of parliaments [MPs] have criminal records, many are already behind the bar due to serious criminal charges but they contest elections and It is a paradox in Indian context that even they win elections. How they win elections?? , what tactic they apply ?? Malpractices during elections are trivial instances. Once they get elected by the people , they set aside all morality, humanity and ethics.

There is a lust of power in politics and to attain this Politicians can go to any acme of Impishness.When thousands are dying in communal clashes and religion motivated catastrophes, politicians heed only on their vote bank instead of taking cogent humanitarian steps to curtail this pandemonium. These all types of evils are being done to grab the power, Everyone is craving for power to show their superiority and to create a hegemony over the opponents within the political arena, but they never think of the damages done to public. These  anti-humanitarian crises are due to scarcity of morals and ethics in political behaviour.  The major problem with politicians is they don't stick to their probity, Rhetorical and boasting statement during elections is common, sometimes their election manifestos are vote driven which have nothing to do with the welfare of the public collectively. For self motive attainment of goals, they do deterioration and wrongful outlay of public funds, and in few instances siphon off the public treasury, like in 2G scam, Coalgate, commonwealth game scam  during congress regime or  Kargil Coffin Scam during BJP rule. Per-se excessive lust for mammon is unethical  but when it is the plunder of entitlements of the poor and pillaging public coffers, then it becomes more serious matter. Here we realize the need of ethics, morality and humanitarian behaviour within the political arena.

Aristotle once said, At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. The same situation arises when man is kept away from ethics, without ethics and moral values man is barbaric, and when it blend with politics takes a dangerous face. Demagogue's hate speeches are common today. Somewhere they derelict from their duty by indulging in these unethical things. Votes are being snatched on muscles power, distribution of liquor is common during elections, amidst all chaos and inhumanitarian activities a honest person either scared to contest election, if someone dared to do so either they are drag by illegal means.  Politicians must know how to conduct in places like parliament and assemblies. if the well educated bureaucrats have to take rigorous training before holding any responsible office, then why politicians are exempted from any training which can inculcate some ethical and moral conduct in them?, This might be helpful in Quenching the thirst of power  and can instill ethical and humanitarian behaviour.

We can't neglect the ethically based governance of  Bhimrao Ambedkar, Sardar patel, jawahar lal nehru and many others through whose efforts " 'We' the people of India" are endowed with A well written constitution and balanced democratic institutions. It is another thing that after Independence , our democracy in its very childhood is plagued with many flaws But after supreme court's latest judgement ( convicted politicians cannot contest election), quashing of Ordinance passed by the cabinet which was against the essence of supreme court's' mandate and after conviction and prosecution of some bad apples , it seems that the process of scavenging of dirty politics has already started now. Politics is a game and for wrong performance of the players we can't blame the game. Every game is fair when it is conducted within the moral and ethical norms. Sometimes basic rules are manipulated with wrong ones, we can correct the game by annihilation of those wrong rules.