An Article- Elections in India

Elections in India.
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Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate,
Formerly employment Officer P.E.S. II.
E.Mail. dalipsinghwassan @ Yahoo Co.In.

After attaining democracy we had seen people winning elections and the people of India were giving them votes out of love, affection and respect. But those days are gone and now the people go to a polling booth and cast their votes, but there is no love, affection or regard for those for whom they cast their votes. They are just performing their duties cast upon them by the Constitution of India because this democracy could be the better alternative for them who had been under Rajas, Maharajas, Monarchs and the Imperialists. They are electing their own people for five yearsand then they get another opportunity to change the people and have a new set of people and they have to change this new set of people once again because they are still in search of right people. We had been conducting these rehearsal for the last six decades, but uptil now we had been just identifying our problems and atleast, we have seen that none of our problems which were available during the times of slavery aresolved. We are still illiterate, houseless, jobless, exploited, backward, poor, wearing rags, are not in a position to send our wards to schools, to trainaing institutions and are not able to adjust our wards at proper work from where they could carry proper earnings with which they should be able to run the family administration. All these problems were there when we were slaves and all these problems are still alive, though we had attained independence and democracy and we had been rehearsaling on these line for the last six decades.
There are political parties and all those who could not get work in other fields have joined in these political parties and if one is ousted from one party, he does not remain silent, he joins another party without any loss of time and if need be he creates his own party and starts functioning. He gathers a few persons around him and becomes the president of that party. Here we had seen 'family rule', 'party dictatorship;' and then 'individual autocracy' and when we could remove these institutions, we could establish a situation where political parties have been obliged to form alliances and we do not know our next step. God may help us and we shall takea wisestep next.
Here people are anot in a position to find out as to which political party is good and which is bad. When people come in open, they give us different lists of good works as well as lists of badworks and we have to believe in these lists. Often we vote for a party which we believe shall win the elections, because we do not like to cast our vote for a partywho shall lose the election. We do not want repeated elections and therefore, our efforts are directed to one and only one goal that at least one party may win the election with majmnority so that different people with different outlook should not make a crowd in the house where formation of government becomes difficult.
Since this democracy has given much benefits to those who had been governing us since 1947, the people are joining this line considering this line as a profession, trade, calling and employment and actually the people who had been getting chances to govern have turned rich because most of them had started collecting money through scams,scandals, muddles, commissions, dalali or the like and there is none to take action against them and uptil now not a single penny had been recollected from these people and it is on record that they had been enjoying on these collections and when they died, their wards had been enjoying on these collections and therefore, now people have started investing money in elections . We have heard that people are spending money to have a party ticket and if we have further investigations, we shall be coming to know more and a time shall come, when ministries shall be on sale.
Since this field is the best for investment, more and more people are coming and if one day we start selling memberships in the house, people shall bidding in these auctions. If we make a cndition that people who are appointed as ministers shall have to pay to the state exchequer, they shall make monthly payment because they shall be collecting from the people.
So such people in the market and we have got no choice but to cast our vote and after having our votes, we are pushed back to suffer for another term of five years or more. This is the situation of voters and the people who won. Since the people in politics are not from the people, they are not duty bound to work for the people. They may be visiting the houses of the people for votes, but once they get our votes, we have got no authority to meet them and tell them the work we have pending with us. The people around them would not allow us to meet them. Therefore, we cannot say that we have established a full democracy here because uptil now we could not elect our people and that is the reason the people elected are not working for our welfare.
But in spite of all this we are calling this government a democracy and we are telling the world at large that we are the largest democracy in the world.
In spite of all hurdles, we are going ahead. We could abolish family rule, then party dictatorship and then individual autocracy and a time shall come when we shall be establishing here atrue democracy. We must be more wise and we must see that only right type of people are coming forard and therefore, the epople who had been collecting money from the people must be identified and their properties be brought to the notice of the state so that those could be confiscated to the state and utilised for the people who created all this wealth. We shall have to go ahead because we have already suffered much and this suffering must end now. We have already spent six decades in all these trials and futile exercises.
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