Indian Democracy

India is the world’s largest democratic country and it has created a landmark in front of the other nation . One thing the whole worlds admire is the administrative policy of India .Being a federal constitutionalism, Indian has central and state government but the system has been framed in such a manner that none have the absolute power over each other.

In the past few decades, a drastic alteration has overshadowed the Indian democracy and questioned the Indian democracy. Not only in India, but the concept of democracy has become dynamism in the whole world .I personally admire that it is impossible to adopt complete democracy.Now ,what we have adopted is ultimately the shape of Utilitarian Theory.

With the advancement in life and incessant growth, development and thinking of the people have made us realized that the present democracy would only create havoc and no remedies. It is the bitter truth that none of the party could get the majority in the cabinet. When we try to assess what are the basis criteria and on what basis the political party do their campaign, it is always noticed that they could exceed any limit for their vote bank.

The defect what I feel in Indian political system is that Stability of Governance. It is seen that in the few decade none of the national parties have obtained clear majority. According to my point of view, Coalition Government is the worst form of Government. Our leaders must realize that they are the representatives of the people and instead of indulging into the nonsense politics must try to uplift their own constituency. Every Member of Parliament get a sum of remuneration for uplifting their constituency, they must utilize those sum and bring up the people of locality.

It is to be understood that in the concept of democracy, no one is supreme but at present  it seems that there is a race among the three wings of the government as to who is supreme. It is Legislature, Executive or Judiciary. There is a great difference between Direct Democracy and Indirect Democracy.

While  touching the preamble of the constitution of India, one thing I found it is not clear whether the constitutional makers wanted India to be a democratic country or not and that is why the term “Democratic” was inserted in the year 1976 through 42^nd Amendment. It could assess that the constitutional makers did not want complete democracy at that stage. According to my point view, it was certainly appropriate to some extent because just after the independence the, the citizen of India were not capable enough to hold the country democratically. Even practically, we are not capable enough to run the democratically now.

We need Renaissance now, we lack social reformers, we lack scholars, we lack philosophers, we lack political thinkers, we lack pious people. No doubt, we accelerated ourselves and now considered to be a developed nation but the drawback what I noticed is only Brain drain and not Brain gain. We feel proud when we see that an Indian born hold the post of ministry in Barack Obama’s Cabinet. We feel proud when we notice that an Indian born is the president of the country. Is it the sense of pride or being ashamed of?

We all agree that there is a need of stable government to develop and progress in the state. Now gearing up towards history, we noticed that Monarchical form of government was more stable than any other form of government. Even in India, the great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Akbar and Asoka, they reined for almost two score but when we try to cite the example for present democratic setup, hardly anyone complete a decade or more. The Question arises “why is it so?”.Are the people’s representatives not competent enough to hold their position for a longer period working for the people?

Critically, Democracy is the best form of government. Every individual has the right to contribute for its own nation and it is only possible through democracy. It is always noticed that whether it is right or wrong, it is the majority that counts. But it is not always necessary to blindly follow the majority as well. Unless majority of the people have the understanding of the administrative and economic growth of the country, it is really impossible to have complete democracy.

As a matter of fact, it is ridiculous to notice that we nominate the representative of the constituency without any qualifications. We have the system to reservation to the run country as well. We all consider ourselves to be an Indian but when the time comes to show unity, we disintegrate ourselves in terms of race, caste and putting other different criteria of obligations. One of the most important tool of democracy in india at present stage is Election.

Democracy is one of the most difficult way of governanace. It is known fact that one cannot completely satisfy the human need .While going through one of the article, there was one sentence which defined the concept of Democracy. It was stated that In Democracy, it is not necessary that everybody should sing the same song. This is certainly how we can define Democracy.

Democracy couldnot be maintained unless its essential element come into place.The most essential element of Democracy in India is Election.Indian Constitution talks about the concept of Universal Adult Franchise. Every individual above the age of 18 have the right to cast the vote and elect their own representative.

One thing that always poke my mind is that whether democracy is a kind of government or mere philosophy.What I feel even if there is monarchy but the head work according to the mandate of people, we can consider it as Democracy.Democracy must not be interpreted in rthe form of governance, rather it should be the philosophy for every governance.