How far is the present democratic process equipped to work for mass betterment? To create a society where everyone can live with all their basic needs fulfilled? We have been watching this in our country for the last 62 years. And therefore will not it be too optimistic if we start to believe that we will see a new India after the 15th general elections? If, even today our basic needs are not secured, then how am I wrong in taking this view?
Who will stop the crooked politicians to continue to cheat people? On the one hand there is the Election Commission which has perhaps the longest experience of conducting elections in one of the largest democracies of the world. There are clearly spelt out rules or codes of conduct. There is Vigilance Commission of India. The Constitution of India is one of the largest Constitutions of the world too! All these and many more. Still it is not possible to stop the wicked persons to win elections and rule over us.
There may be one way, if everyone of us vote. But still then I am unable to believe that whether this will give us a new India: ‘an India where the poorest of the poor shall feel that it a nation of his own’. A nation where mothers won’t die giving birth to the babies, babies won’t suffer sickness for malnutrition, people won’t die of malaria, farmers won’t commit suicide, ……(and the list is endless!).
Perhaps Albert Einstein was right that ‘coming generations will seldom believe that such a man (Mahatma Gandhi) had ever walked on this earth’. Yes, Mahatma Gandhi is dead (recall recent Varun Gandhi’s controversy and the vehement protests from his alma matter!).
