Indian political framework built after independence is losing its relevance to govern a complex and diverse country. Six and half decades of democratic exercise has generated more hypocrites than true leaders. Selfless sacrifice by millions of freedom fighters against British exploitation, and for the vision they had about India, has gone waste.
Democracy has been reduced to a number game to support self interest as against that of the country.
Voters have become consumers for political parties, to be lured and deceived with various schemes before and after every election. Unending patience, philosophical attitude and hope are driving factors for voters to move from one situation to the other for a better nation in future.
Present: The electoral results of 2014 have proved the mindset of voters to move their hope from a party to a credible leader to deliver; as a result, Mr. Narendra Modi of BJP was given the mandate to lead the nation. The change was triggered by the voters realizing their lives will not change, no matter which party is in power. Educated middle class and lower section of society had a new ray of hope in AAP, but those hopes got bust like a bubble in very short time.
All political parties have diminished to anarchism. Furthering their personal interest of control, these anarchists have ruined the institution to a great extent. These one-man shows brought fortunate and unfortunate results for undeserving and deserving politicians respectively based on the side they contest.
These trends are unhealthy for competent leaders to grow under an anarchist control. These situations are very loud and clear under Congress, AAP and others political parties.
Politicians are busy scrambling on issues like fake certificates etc, to defame opposition to prove their better image and control, forgetting major issues like population, poverty, malnutrition, resource management, air pollution, education, law and order, health care, corruption, social harmony – the list never ends. How to fix these issues with credible governance? Most of the representatives do not even understand the issues and expecting them to address them is a foolish dream. Do these people deserve salaries plus benefits from the tax payer?
India’s last hope is PM Narendra Modi. This Herculean task to clean-up the past filth and offer a better future for India is extremely challenging. But these major problems are in the process of turning into monsters and could lead to a revolution. Do politicians understand how to cooperate?
Problem: Multi-party democracy adopted by the Indian constitution allows a party with the highest number of elected representatives with majority or with external support to form a government, but how the majority can be formulated is not well defined. The majority can be of any combination, defying people’s voice by elected representatives or partymen to switch sides based on personal interest.
This is the biggest joke on the democratic process. This flexible process has given opportunity for regional groups to form political parties. These groups garner votes based on religion, caste, muscle power etc. This flexible process with low standards has ruined democracy on the whole.
Solution: I wish to share a bird’s-eye view about my idea. Details need to be worked out with help from experts. India should move from multi-party to “no party democracy”. Representatives will be of two categories. 1- Representative (Ministry) – Qualified to head a ministry/ institutions. 2- Representatives (General) – to address people’s issues. Under Supreme Court and High court observation, there will be two phases of screening, both for central and state governments. The standards and screening process will be decided by experts to qualify a representative to contest. All representatives must go through Phase I.
Phase II is for ministry eligibility, screening process is more rigorous related to a ministry, subject matter and administration. Phase III screening will be for the post PM/CM, 5 representatives will be qualified to contest for this role. For each constituency 5 representatives will be qualified to contest. Based on the screening results and public debates people will vote to elect PM/CM plus constituency representatives. Elected PM / CM has the authority to select/fire his/her cabinet members from the elected representatives. It is very important to limit the period for a representative to occupy a constitutional post.
Advantages: The above solution will eliminate anarchism, political fights, communal violence, incompetent leaders, horse trading, misdeeds of representatives on Governments, wastage of parliament time and resources, compromising institutions, political crimes and corruption and political slavery etc.
My objective is simple: I dream about India’s bright future. Nothing more.
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