Author - Manoj Kumar
Are we really mature enough to be called the largest democracy of the world? Democracy sounds good for such a large country, right! But are the representatives today who come to the parliament after being elected by us really governing our country efficiently? Before coming on to this question, I would like to throw lights in the manner these representatives are being elected. One who gets most number of votes in his or her constituency is declared won whether he gets only 15% or even lower of the total votes cast. This means even if 85 % of the people or more reject him or her as being their representative still he or she becomes our representative. The single largest party or the combine who win the elections happen to garner hardly 12 – 20 % of the total number of votes cast. We can imagine how we are being governed by those who have been rejected by the majority. On the other hand, the constitution of the parliament is such that one constituency has number of voters in just a few thousands, and another in Lakhs. No consistency in the manner, constituencies have been delimited. Further, for any government job there is an upper age limit, after which he or she is thought to be less efficient to accomplish his or her duties in proper manner. But, for fighting elections, there is no upper age limit. As a result more than three forth of our parliamentarians are above 50 and more than two third above 60. Further, for all kinds of jobs in India, there are certain educational qualifications on the basis of which he or she is selected. But to perform the heads of all these jobs in the ministry, there is no qualification required for the politicians to fight the elections. As a result many of the parliamentarians are not even having the basic education, and most of them are not even graduates. So, this is our democracy where before being elected the leaders go door to door to ask for votes for them. But once elected, expecting them to be visible to you is a distant dream, you cannot even dare to meet them as they are now holding the most powerful positions with a number of body guards having latest weaponries in their hands for their security and a series of cars to follow them. From which ever road they pass, the traffic comes to a stand still for hours. Barring a few, most of them get elected no doubt spending crores of Rupees either from their own pockets or from their party’s fund looting the poor public, and then their sole motto remains to multiply their investments made earlier in the form of expenditure made during their election campaigns. And, come next elections, the same shameless politicians come again door to door asking for our votes. And we happily mix our voices with theirs as “ JINDABAD JINDABAD!”
Are we really mature enough to be called the largest democracy of the world? Democracy sounds good for such a large country, right! But are the representatives today who come to the parliament after being elected by us really governing our country efficiently? Before coming on to this question, I would like to throw lights in the manner these representatives are being elected. One who gets most number of votes in his or her constituency is declared won whether he gets only 15% or even lower of the total votes cast. This means even if 85 % of the people or more reject him or her as being their representative still he or she becomes our representative. The single largest party or the combine who win the elections happen to garner hardly 12 – 20 % of the total number of votes cast. We can imagine how we are being governed by those who have been rejected by the majority. On the other hand, the constitution of the parliament is such that one constituency has number of voters in just a few thousands, and another in Lakhs. No consistency in the manner, constituencies have been delimited. Further, for any government job there is an upper age limit, after which he or she is thought to be less efficient to accomplish his or her duties in proper manner. But, for fighting elections, there is no upper age limit. As a result more than three forth of our parliamentarians are above 50 and more than two third above 60. Further, for all kinds of jobs in India, there are certain educational qualifications on the basis of which he or she is selected. But to perform the heads of all these jobs in the ministry, there is no qualification required for the politicians to fight the elections. As a result many of the parliamentarians are not even having the basic education, and most of them are not even graduates. So, this is our democracy where before being elected the leaders go door to door to ask for votes for them. But once elected, expecting them to be visible to you is a distant dream, you cannot even dare to meet them as they are now holding the most powerful positions with a number of body guards having latest weaponries in their hands for their security and a series of cars to follow them. From which ever road they pass, the traffic comes to a stand still for hours. Barring a few, most of them get elected no doubt spending crores of Rupees either from their own pockets or from their party’s fund looting the poor public, and then their sole motto remains to multiply their investments made earlier in the form of expenditure made during their election campaigns. And, come next elections, the same shameless politicians come again door to door asking for our votes. And we happily mix our voices with theirs as “ JINDABAD JINDABAD!”
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मित्रों यदि मेरा यह पोस्ट आपके दिल को जरा भी छू कर गुजरा हो तो मुझे विश्वास है कि आप मेरे इस प्रयास को लाइक दे कर मुझे और भी अच्छा लिखने की प्रेरणा, स्नेह और आशीर्वाद देंगे। आप अगर मुझे मेरे फेसबुक प्रोफाइल पर फॉलो करते हैं तो आपको मेरे शेयर किये सारे पोस्ट्स आपके नोटिफिकेशन्स में मिलते रहेंगे।
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