Only Elections Cannot Establish Democracy

Only elections do not establish a democracy
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

Democracy is the best form of government because here they establish a government of the people, by the people and for the people and when everything is for the people, it is the best form of government. There is no alternative to this government. We, the people of India who had been under slavery for centuries chose this form of government for us and we are trying to follow this system since the start of this system.
In a democracy thee is no raja, no maharaja, no monarch and there are no imperialists coming from abroad and maintaining a country like a colony. The people are the real masters of the country and they elect their government themselves and they give time to the elected people to work for them and if the people found that they had elected wrong people, they change the candidates and they elect another set of people. But in a country like India, we have got the same sets of people who are in one political party today and they shall be found in another political party tomorrow and on the third day they shall be forming their own party. We have seen that families and families are joining these brigades and they are ruling us. We have been suffering under family rule, under party dictatorship and then under individual autocracy. We had the vote power and we could write off these units and now we are under alliances and they are obliged to function under a common agenda.
We have noted that people who are joining politics and are winning elections, they have got no motive in their mind to serve the people like public servants. They are still functioning as rajas, maharajas, monarchs and they are also found functioning like the imperialists because the same old principles of 'divide and rule' and keep the people as slaves are in operation and we could not convert the rulers as public servants. That is the reason the same old principle of 'beat the people and loot the people' are in operation and we have seen the people in power are coming forward with new methods of collecting money which is the wealth created by the people and they are fund living life of kings. There is none to have supervision and control over these rulers and that is the reason only small bribe takers are in jails and all big looters are out and are enjoying life.
On one hand the people have been declared as masters of the country, but they have been given only one right and that right is right to vote. Once they cast their votes, they are pushed backward and they are told that they shall be recalled for such a rehearsal after five years and during these five years, the people are suffering the same life which they had been suffering during the times of rajas, maharajas, monarchs and the imperialists. The same sets of people are coming to power in turns and there is no one new in the line and the people remain only subjects and they live life of slaves because in spite of all slogans and all promises, they are still illiterate, unemployed, poor, houseless, beggars, ill, weak, wearing rags, hungry, starving and all that which conditions were with them during the times of slavery.
So we can say that with the introduction of this election system, we are not electing right types of people and that is the reason we can say that this election system shall not establish democracy in a country. This is just a name and nothing more. We are still electing rajas, maharajas, monarchs and the imperialists and not public servants. The time is far away when we shall be having properly educated, properly trained, properly examined people on the forefronts. There are competent people available in this country, but the present batches are not allowing them to come forward. We had done something wrong when we were framing our constitution and we could not prescribed proper qualifications for the people in politics. We had been creating jobs for them and that could be the reason we established these state level legislative assemblies and other offices where we post these politicians. We are making them payments and we are giving them opportunities to loot public funds and we are surprised to note that a supervisor is lower in qualifications than the officer functioning under him. In such situations orders are passed by the bureaucracy and signed by the political heads and we all know that our bureaucracy is not elected and they are not answerable to the people.
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