Rulers cannot become public servants.
Democracy may come, but one thing is very much clear that no ruler shall like to become a public servant. The people who are in politics are people with money and they invest money in elections taking this line as a profession, trade, calling and employment and they are after offices so that they may recollect the money they had spent on elections and also collect amounts for the next elections and for their own maintenance. When this money consideration is there, we cannot expect from these people that they shall serve the people.
When someone was defining the concept of democracy, he specifically said that it shall be a government of the people, by the people and for the people. This is a very good definition, but such definitions are available only on papers and in all the constitutions. The government is always in hands of a few. We have seen in India that there had been family rule, party dictatorship and then individual autocracy. We cannot introduce such terms in the concept of democracy, but the people of the world know that democracy has been accepted as such, but when they form government, it is never the government of the people nor they work for the welfare of the people. Had the governments of the people here in India been working for the welfare of the people, most of the problems of the people would have been solved. But all the problems are still present here in India. It clearly means that the governments here were not of the people and that had been the reason they had not been working for the welfare of the people.
Therefore, we must admit that governments are established to rule and they rule only. They may be pronouncing that they are working for the welfare of the people, but such pronouncements are often false and misleading. The people who rule work like rajas, maharajas, monarchs and the imperialists and therefore, the people remain slaves even in democracies. The people are dealt with iron hand so that they should not be allowed to speak against the government and if they speak they should be given beating and then they should be sent to jails. If we study the number of people in jails, we shall find that only poor people are sent to jails and all others who are in the ruling groups or are with money are not sent to jails. The people in ruling classes are one and they are against the people who are ruled and therefore, even in democracy, the people should not expect that the governments shall work for the welfare of the people.
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