INDIAN DEMOCRACY - LAUGHABLE OR ADMIRABLE?
by Kabeer on Jul 15, 2008 06:22 PM
To TVR Shenoy and to many Indians, it is shocking to think that a constituency represented by Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijayalakshmi Pandit is now held by a man behind bars!
But then who was responsible to this state of affairs?
If those constituencies were represented by the likes of Nehru & Pandit, why those constituencies were not nurtured well so that future generation Indians of that constituency could have continued to elect the likes of Nehru or Pandit. But during the rule of Nehru and others the state of these constituencies was driven from bad to worse and their electorate thought it is better to choose even a Goonda who will do them some benefit which Nehru and Pandit could not do.
Remember, to many those elected MPs might be Goondas but the very fact that they were elected by many state that they are delivering something to that massive deprived segment of population.
We have a tendency to see the world from our literary and English speaking netsurfing prisms.
But to many who are illiterate and who can not manage two square meals a day surviving the day itself is a big challenge than getting educated and expressing freelancing opinions etc.
Before criticising those elected MPs, why dont the Indians criticize the so called intellectual Prime Minister and his Home Minister?
The current Indian Prime Minister is not a direct representative of any single Indian.
His # 2, Home Minister was rejected by the electorate and lost his election.
