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.
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by menda vijaya on Jul 13, 2008 12:52 PM Permalink
You are right.But dear friend, we have been like this for 5000 years!! How can we change. Several changes occured on this soil, geographically, politally and economically. But the Indian has not changed and will never, ever. But your ideas are good. Hope someone would take notice of them.
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by trikarn on Jul 13, 2008 02:13 PM Permalink
nothing great about this! remember that we as a nation have never been one politically for the last 5000 odd years! we were under 500 odd kingdoms till the mughals came and made some unity! the brits spoilt the party and made us what we are today!i mean one nation concept. atavism does not die out that easily!
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by Ashish Kumar on Jul 13, 2008 04:52 PM Permalink
U shd read Indian history again. U seem to forget long periods when India lived under a single flag.
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by Binu Devassia on Jul 13, 2008 01:42 PM Permalink
Your ideas are good; but think of the other side. There is no dispute on the issue that our Indian democratic politics has been spoiled by our political parties. But if we change the electoral policy to independents, there won't be any stable government as those mps or mlas would jump around various people to form government for their own likes or dislikes. What we India need is a radical change in the present process and mindset of people. our so called institutions like presidency, supreme court, election commission and police need to be independent in some extent (atleast 80 or 90%) and government should not have power to appoint the head of these sections. Let our president be elected by people directly through less expensive method of casting votes. All other institutions like courts, police, and election commission should be appointed by President only and by that system we need to make sure efficient personalities are seated on power. Our election commission should have much power and the people on the seat should be able to use the power. Any parties that uses religion, caste, etc as election issues should be banned. In order to minimize the number of political parties and the partisan mentality of parties, there should be a strong law that only those parties can contest in elections who have base in atleast 1/3 of total states. And last but not least the candidates should be well educated that their minimum qualification should be Masters Degree from premier Institut
