Democracy And
its Shades
Democratic setup in
India has delivered a vibrant Growth in terms of economy. The success of
democracy can be measured by two parameters, one is the kind and level of
equality citizens possess and second 'Rule of law' must be upheld. Along with
these we must see whether different pillars of democracy is working
independently and accomplishing their own home work without intervening each
other or not. The recent Judgment of supreme court in which it struck down the
National Judicial Appointment Commission Act (NJAC) has created so much hue and
cry in the country. But it was the contention between different organs of the
government and Judiciary. When we talk about democracy first thing which strick
in our mind is ELECTIONS through which we choose our representative and sent
them to do our job on behalf of us in parliaments our state assemblies. Since
independence Indian democracy has witnessed hundreds of elections at different
level. Democracy sometimes sarcastically referred as 'Mediocracy' for good
reasons, we have many. Bihar Assembly Election was such spectacular show.
Political equality
means every citizen regardless of caste, creed, sec, gender and religion can
exercise their franchise without fear and favour. One man one vote is political
equality. 'Caste based politics' 'cash for vote' Religion driven vote' and
ideology of political parties create sentimental ruckus henceforth politicise
the people with certain tag "BJP supporter' or 'Congress supporter'. Rest
of the people who are ignorant, illiterate and are not aware of the facts get
manipulated with half-baked ideas.In recent Bihar Assembly election 90% of such
people voted against BJP because they want to eat beef in future also. One
woman who is in her 60s asked me Is it true if BJP would come to power we have
to marry our daughters in opposite religion? Vice versa, If you want to
establish our lost glory, if you want to make India a Hindu nation be wary of
INC. These are nothing but the by product of hate speeches and growing
intolerance in the country. To establish government of certain party we even forget to see the merits
and demerits of local candidate who is going to represent us in Loksabha or
Assembly. Democracy gives equal opportunity to get elected as an MP or MLA. Can
you dare to throw your hate in the ring?
Politics in India is highly risk prone job and as a matter of fact only
unemployed persons can take that much risk. Once triumphant it becomes a job of
siphoning off public treasury and a complete Sinecure. Election commission has
succeeded in holding free and fair elections but it doesn't make any sense if
there is no level playing field at the grass root level. Ideology and Mindset
duo play crucial role in electioneering. To Fix all these things we must work
in tendem to do away with unscrupulous man between candidate and the voters.
Priority determines the whole game, Country first and Rable rousers ( Bad
apples in politics ) must be shown their way. We ought not to supports leaders
who hate other community whether it is muslim or hindu. Hating one community
doesn't mean loving other.
GB Shaw had said, 'Oh !
Disrespectable democracy I love you.' Democracy is the best form of government.
there is no point in throwing the baby out with bath water but without
rectifying the status quo flaws we will dump the people down and will never
succeed in curving out the best.
Kudos to the democratic
Institutions for strengthening Indian democracy. There is silver lining amid every
entangled problem. We are bridging the digital gap. The process of connecting
every people has been started It is transition period for indian democracy when
people are shifting their ideologies from various dimensions to the Nation it's
herald that we want change.
By:-
Tanveer Ashraf
