DISGRACE FOR THE NATION

During the last few days there is going on a great upheaval on the political scene in Karnataka. First, some allegations against ministers, their removal from the ministry, then a lot of other happenings, including hijacking of some MLAs from the ruling party and their supporters, shifting them to very costly resorts out of the state to keep them allured to the opposition just with the aim to topple the constitutionally elected Government in the state. From the side of the ruling party too, some emissaries tried to contact their defectors to bring them back to their fold. It is apprehended that during all these dramas lot of money and other inducements must have exchanged hands. The matter goes to the Governor who asks the C.M. to get the vote of confidence which he does on 11-10-2010. Over the confidence vote having been secured by the CM, again lot of things happened including creating of rowdy scenes, in and out side the Assembly. Then, such happenings have not taken place in the system for the first time rather such things have happened many times, most recently in Jharkhand also. All such incidents continue to lower the dignity of our system of democracy, which the whole world too must be observing with pity and lowering our respect in their eyes and records.
All these happenings are widely reported by the print and electronic media and is classified disgrace in Karnataka and other places wherever they happen. In the opinion of the writer of these lines, it is shame not only for the particular state but also for the whole political class and the Nation. Political class in opposition for being always busy with creating hindrances in working of the government and doing every thing possible to ensure fall of the elected governments, just for the greed to grab the position for themselves to enjoy the fruits of being in office and create riches for themselves and their nears & dears. But for the nation, as we are a Nation, have not been able to smoothen the systems so that such nasty happenings do not take place, despite our having come out of the slavery more than 63 years back, and boasting of our nation as being the biggest democracy in the world.
All the best that we show off our armory and cultural programmes on Independence Day, have been host to the Commonwealth Games and have won some medals also including the gold ones, but the way our political system is working and our politicians are behaving inside and out side the Parliament and state assemblies, the general character they possess and the impatience they show to grab whatsoever is visible and trying to snatch whatever others have too is seen and observed by the world and can be seen even with the naked eye by the general public as a big blot on our country. To come out of this malaise it is very necessary to make rules and laws in such a way that every one including elected representatives is made to behave in a decent and responsible manner. In organizing these CWG a lot of money said to be about 70,000 crores has been directly spent against the original budget of about 2,000 crores only. Then, there have been delays in completion of different projects. The standard of some of the projects is reported to be below the mark. It is general perception that lot of money in the process has dug into the public exchequer by way of dishonest and corrupt way of working of the systems. For this country which still has not attained the position of a developed country, this is too big a burden and those who promised to host these events should have visualized this position before hand and should now look out for the reasons in taking these decisions and to enforce corrections.
So that this is made possible, some suggestions are:-
The political system and the election process need be changed in such a manner that no person of negative tendencies, i.e. the criminals, mafias, money looters, uneducated (different from illiterates) get a position in the public life.
The number of political parties at the national level as well as at the level of states throughout the country is pegged to two only so that the elections always give a clear mandate in favour of one and that party must be permitted to perform their duties for the full term. In case there are to be genuine differences on policy matters, inside the party, such issues can be discussed within the party forum only and still if some person or persons differ on genuine policy matters the matters which are in the interest of the nation and society as a whole), they can resign from the party. To fill in the gap thus created, parties must be permitted to bring in the replacements so that working of the government is not stalled and need for fresh elections do not arise.
In case all the corrections are not done and rails of the system are not smoothened, it is just not possible to avoid such situations and happenings.
Wish the positive thinkers in the political class, the media, the educated ones and the concerned citizens enforce and force the system to be cured and brought on the smooth rails which is the need of the day.
Lucknow
RD Agarwal
A-86, Indira Nagar, Lucknow.
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