After seeing all these arguments and counter arguements abt the Cong, BJP and Left, I have a strong feeling that we need to do away with the party system in India. I feel our electoral policy must ban all parties so that only independents should stand in elections. This is what the party system has done to so called 'democratic' India. 1. More than 95% voters vote on party lines. So never mind if he has a criminal bkgnd, if he is in the winnable party ticket in that constituency, he is bound to win. This has been the bane of our political culture over the last few decades. 2. Polarization of votes along casteist , communal lines depending upon the party's stance. 3. Issuing of whips by the respective parties, like we are seeing now, on an important issue like the N-deal just to save or bring down the Govt. The whip is essentilly a anti-democratic tool of the political parties which swear by democracy for the common man. When there is no freedom of expressing individual opinions within a party, then what demorcracy...?? 4. Witch hunting after coming to power depending upon which side of the fence you are. 5. Unstable govts. 6. Party system has encouraged dictatorship, violence and supression of truth bcos too much power corrupts. Indira & emergency,Karunanidhi, Jayalalitha & their hooligan party followers who burn buses,and kill innocent people are all examples of political violence in the name of party.
