After the recent terror attacks in Mumbai people of India have started showing anger and grievances against politicians. Citizens of the world’s largest democracy feel that our politicians are inefficient in their work and they are incapable of giving social security to people. The interesting fact is Indian police force is extensively used for providing security to ministers, MLAs and MPs. So, only a significantly small part is there to protect the common man. Taking this fact into consideration people have started to blame the politicians for endangering the Indian society. Even a question has been raised against the number of security staff appointed for the Gandhi family.
Now people are in a mood to throw the corrupt, inefficient and incapable politicians out of power and privilege. But it is a matter of surprise when these people vote for a gangster, an illiterate or a snob and select as representative from their constituency.
We are living in India, the world’s largest democracy. But surprisingly people do not understand that ““Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”. By exercising the right to vote people can easily select the eligible, efficient and competent person by rejecting the corrupt, inefficient and incapable politicians. But this is something that does not happen in most of the places of our country.
Recently in one morning when I read the news of an illiterate woman got selected as MLA in Rajasthan I got shocked but instantly I realized that this is the funny side of democracy or rather about India.
A democratic country can have a great bureaucratic system if people can realize its power in true sense. We all know that ballots speak louder than bullets, but we do not take the stand to make our nation better by utilizing the power a citizen of a democracy has.
-Arnab Mandal
Delhi
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