Democracy in India

 Democracy in India 

' Your Freedom Ends Where My Freedom Starts ' is the key to Democracy 

" Your freedom ends where my freedom starts", this is the principal of real democracy.

Introduction :- 

                  Political events that have recently overtaken the country are disturbing, Twice in two years we have gone to the polls. Each time , the outcome is a fractured verdict. People did not give mandate to a single party. Each time the elected government has been unable to govern the country for the full tenure.

                  This is the undivided rule of modern democracy that one has the right to do his personal affairs without any interference of outer agency i.e., your freedom ends where my freedom starts.

Blessings of democracy:- 

                      Democracy is a right. Every freedom loving citizen should save it. A democratic government should guarantee a life that is reasonably free from wants. 

                      The blessings of democracy can never be belittled. But its maximum utility depends on the people who use the system. Then how is it that in the world's largest democracy and under an ordained Constitution, we are found ill-served by this system?

                      Alas! We are today in the throes of a systematic failure deliberately contrived by our own elected representatives.

Lacunae:- 

          With the view point of a layman, it seems that there are certain Iacunae in our Constitution which the Constitution framers could not envisage at the that time. The renowned jurist, Nani A. Palkhivala, who spoke two decades ago about the future of Democracy in India, lays the blame squarely at the doors of the electors. They elected the professional politicians who have reduced this country to such a pass. By voting ignorant professional politicians to power, we have kept a singularly gifted enterprising nation on the ranks of the poorest on the earth.

          Many politicians seem to have a vested interest in illiteracy.........their survival as public figures depends upon the Constitution of the forces of ignorance. It appears cynical but it is true that for portly politicians poverty is good business. They talk continually about garibi ( poverty) without having will to eradicate it.

          It is surprising that the Constitution makers should have overlooked the requirements of prescribing a minimum qualification for the law makers.

          Why Did the Constitution makers not visualize the mushroom growth of the regional parties? We have now to our credit even a single man party. There is a dire necessity for a provision in the Constitution for the derecognition of such parties as bag less that 10 percent of the popular votes, in the forthcoming elections. This concern has been voiced by our former president R.Venkataraman.

What to do now? :-

                   Now it becomes the duty of every voter who goes to the polls to verify whether the person who is likely to get this vote is literate and whether he or she had secured proper knowledge of reading and writing his own language.

                   The voter must also look around for people who are always likely to put the needs of the state, the country and nation above their 'self'.

                   We must wrest the initiative from professional politicians and from political parties. We must insist upon man of knowledge, vision and character being chosen as candidates for parliamentary and state elections.

                   We must shed the divisive tendencies which split the votes on caste and sub-caste lines. These tendencies are so devastating to our unity as a nation.

Conclusion:- 

                The prime need of the hour is to cleanse the political system. This can happen only if we elect people who can give to the country their unbiased attention. But where do we find people totally dedicated to serve those who elected them to office?

Difficult Words :- 

1. Fractured - टूटा हुआ

2. Verdict     - जनादेश

3. Tenure     - कार्यकाल

4. Throes     - कष्ट

5. Envisage - कल्पना करना

6. Eradicate - समुल नष्ट करना 

7. Wrest       - कब्जाना

8. Unbiased - निष्पक्ष।