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Indian democracy in a quandary (17-07-2008)

There was a time in the post-independence India when leaders and political parties used to garner support on the basis of their commitments and sacrifices. Whether it was Deendayal Upadhay, E.M.S. Namboodiripad or Morarji Desai, in spite of different political ideologies they had one thing in common and it was the honesty. But in this 61st year of democratic set up this has become a forlorn and obscure concept and consequently has lost its appeal any more. Nowadays what binds the political parties together is the vested interest instead of a common cause for benefiting the people.

The best specimen of this can be the current government at the center and its opposition coalition. No political party, in each of these two coalitions, has any affinity towards the other one. For which the Congress allegation that the Left and the BJP are working in unison to bring the downfall of the government is nothing unusual.

Though the collapse of the UPA government, at this juncture, will hardly matter for BJP but certainly it has given vent to the emergence of a series of debates within CPI (M). What has been seen is that a considerable section of the party is in no mood to join the bandwagon along side the BJP to topple the government at the center.

Nevertheless this, in no way, is going to make the situation easy for Congress leaders who are almost spending sleepless nights apprehending defeats. The commencement of a series of meetings and the instruction to all UPA members of the Lok Sabha to reach the capital by 19 July, in this regard, indicates that the saga of horse-trading is in full momentum.

Whatever may be the result, let it happen. But is there anyone who can save the world’s largest democracy from this widening mediocrity? Perhaps none since we are living in age when there is an inhuman dearth of noble natures!

Source: http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=213557

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