Can anybody choose anything in India? Can you choose an honest MLA, MP, or even an honest leader in University. NOoooo. Nothing can be done honestly here, it seems. Why? Because politicians have been raping the Indian physice since long long. We have come to understand that honesty is a bad policy. What is th use of rubber stamp Presidents or Prime Ministers, or any other leader. It is no secret. O you all Indians can we do something about it? Pl. come forward and lets change things without personal interests. Lets restore faith of the common man in human values, and good governance. We are being led astray. We are being moved and used without our knowing. Why we can't come together and work for the greatest good for the greatest number of people? Why we have become so lax and selfish. We must understand we are eating into ourselves by lying detached and shutting off from the world outside. Wake up educated Indians, it is your responsibility to wake up the uneducated. Rakesh Raina
RE:Choose what?
by kiran paranjpe on Apr 11, 2007 10:29 AM Permalink
The Govrnment of India is run by the Political Party in power.It is high time that we dispense with the purely ceremonial president's post. Apolitical men of eminence are reduced to mere rubberstamps and yes men of the ruling party. As presidents they have to learn to compromise with all that they had nurtured. A man of high principles has to agree most unwilligly to the dictates of those in power. I would like to mention the cases of death penalties sent to the president for pardon even after the highest courts in the land have given their considered judgment,as a live example. The President has to wrestle with this problem on a purely personal basis. His decision, eitherway, brings him into the midst of emotional and contentious issues.With no executive responsibility it is a sheer torture to endure such a blatantly political problem. The decision on the presidential pardon is hanging fire much like the judicial cases. On the whole I believe that the leader in the ruling party should become the president and appoint his prime minister. It is then that our political parties in power will behave responsibly. No, Mr NRN must be spared this punishment!
