GOVERNANCE
democracy a k verma
Think About a Second Republic?
Questions
are being raised about the validity of democracy in the Indian
Republic. There is a widespread view that democracy in India is no
longer by the people, of the people, for the people.
The
leaders who brought democracy to India in 1947 were giants in
conviction, commitment, ethics and morality. There were many of them.
Their tribe lingered for many years after Independence but their numbers
kept on diminishing. Today, that tribe has vanished completely. Search
as one might, not a single individual can be found qualifying for the
citizen’s unquestioning acceptance as the leader of the nation.
Responsible
for this sad state is the continuous growth of unscrupulous politics,
degeneration of instruments of democracy and emergence of a new elite,
reliant on the power of money, muscle and mafia, to monopolise the
rewards of democracy. Today, no sense of shame is felt in claiming that
compulsions of coalition politics require principles of probity to be
jettisoned....
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