Is "DEMOCRACY" the reason behind Prime Minister's compromise?

When we say “Money can buy anything”, we are only becoming a part of the system that has led to the plunder of India by corrupt politicians and business men hand in glove.

Democracy is about the power of majority (i.e. Vote banks) be it a polity society or a business organisation.

On the verge of independence, it was decided by politicians like Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and other esteemed functionaries that the power will flow from the bottom to the top and not the other way round. It was stressed by Gandhiji that we strengthen the panchayati raj because it was the first step to empowering an individual which would bring out the best to the top of the political ladder.

No one would have anticipated that it would become a money free for all i.e. the more the money the more the people can be bought (i.e. majority) and thus rise in the system leaving the people with no or little resources to be left out of the democratic setup.

The world was shocked to find out Dr Manmohan Singh who couldn’t even win his constituency being given the post of prime minister.

Now being a part of such a setup means running a democracy represented by its majority (the one we vote for) and history has enough to prove that the majority is not always right.

This is not to say that the corrupt should be forgiven or people in the know-how let go scot-free. But systems take time to change and one man does not have the power to bring that about without a backing.

It is now up to the next generation to cringe on the state of the system or bring about and encourage even reluctant honest and hard working individuals to join  the system and vote for them so that they rise to the top.

I am here reminded of the movie “The Time Machine”. The scientist build the machine to go back into the past coz he had lost his love to a terrible accident and he wanted to change it. After repeated attempts he was not able to change the past.

Suddenly by mistake he was send into the future. There was destruction everywhere. That is when he realised his folly that

“You can never change the past but you have the power to take steps so that the future will be different”. That is what he did and helped avoid a catastrophe.

Something worth learning for.

Why Do we need Dr Manmohan Singh?

“Behold I send you as a sheep among the wolves” says the Bible. Is it a conundrum or a necessity for a man of this stature to follow the coalition dharma (i.e. compromise) or is he mimicking the party protocol.

Political parties have always tended to be bigger than individuals. An individual gets attracted to a particular party either due to its star functionaries or out of the party manifesto or because the party allows them the space to bring out the change that the individual thinks is a necessary part of the society.

But a party is a sum total of a lot of elements put together and coalition is all about strange bedfellows. Sometimes when everything seems to be going wrong you bet on the lesser evil.

Any political party is a family and head of the family has to see that it functions properly or it will end up as a dysfunctional one.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. They say corruption is the filth that grows on itself until it engulfs the whole space and those who are not a part of it get kicked out or voluntarily leave.

A shimmer of hope for the coming generation that all is not lost till yet