Who will win

Which country is having best democracy?

In our country also it is true democracy. Difference is that India does not deserve true democracy because 90% of population is politically and educationally too backward to decide and ascertain the true character of a political candidate or a party and hence he is swayed away by false promises and baseless speeches, or a few gifts in cash or in kind.
In other countries level of education and consciousness is better than us. Our style of campaign is very bad in which innocent voters is simply befooled and trapped and you can say hypnotized by cleaver politicians. As a matter of fact political leaders have made mockery of democracy and it will end only when politically conscious social organization come forward and bring about consciousness in rural areas and for this purpose they start door to door contacts at least a year before.
In fact we need controlled democracy meaning thereby curtailing certain rights of freedom, speech, and so on so as to prevent misuse of the same by negligible 0.1% of population. Rural mass wants essential commodities, employment and suitable infrastructure on topmost priority and they are least concerned with democracy or freedom. It is greedy leaders of political parties who create differences bases on caste, communities and religion or region. It is politicians who divide voters and rule. They provide reservation but not opportunities for rural mass. I do not understand without creation of job opportunities what the use of reservation or quotas is. But leaders always treat quota as a comfortable tool to strike their target.

Whether Manmohan singh is guided by Sonia Gandhi?

Indian people are least concerned whether Manmohan Singh is taking orders or advice from Sonia Gandhi or is acting independently at his own conscience. Important point of concern for general mass is whether their problems or the issues of national concerned are well taken into consideration and are seriously and correctly taken up by their leaders to remove their problems and safeguard the nation.

Current congress part led UPA government is taking actions but actions taken are in wrong direction and hence not providing any relief to general mass. Rural mass does not understand globalization or liberalization or nuclear deal, they understand their local issue which are never resolved by political leaders. Majority of voters do not understand the benefits of cut in repo rate or CRR or SLR or bank rate or reduction in service tax rates or cut in custom duty and excise duty. The most significant action is that which ease their burden and make their life happy. All economic steps taken by the government to prevent the bad effects of global recession or to hide the result of wrong economic policies followed by them in last five years are insignificant and futile in the eye of general mass because they are not getting any commodity cheaper or they are not getting job opportunity for their children.

Do you think that coalition government may be effective?

Only stable government can take effective steps to cure the ailing economy of the country and to provide the real relief to rural mass .Under coalition government, it is very difficult to reconcile conflicting views of various regional political parties and individuals and the entire time of the Parliament is spent in tug of war and in safeguarding their own chairs. This is why there are hardly 50 sittings in the Parliament in a year and the discussion is generally on irrelevant issues. Unfortunately important issues go without discussion and debate.
For effective and working government India needs two party system as prevalent in USA and other developed countries. For this purpose government has to amend the laws immediately to see that only those political parties can take part in national election which had got at least 20% of votes polled and similarly individuals who got less than 10% votes in last election should be debarred from contesting election for 10 years and similarly the candidate who get less than 10 votes in the present election should be fined with at least two lacs of rupees to compensate the expenses government incurred in conducting election.

The greatest disadvantage of coalition government is that there is no value of Common Minumum Progrramme (CMP) or manifesto or ideas or principles or policies. Only important thing is to survive in the government and accumulate maximum money and political power so that next election will be smooth sailing .Political leaders move in the market and discover the party or group where he can lead and good political career and they switch over their this party or love for any individual leader very frequently without any shame .In conclusion survival of leaders has assumed top priority and that of voters has be left much behind.

Danendra Jain
22nd March 2009