Give throw such fact which reflect the glorious future of indian democracy
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he season has come in India when political leaders promise heaven on earth. Rhetoric flows with full force. Allegations are flung at rivals. The standard claim that “our sinners are saints; your saints are sinners” is repeated incessantly. Vicious memes fill the air waves. Fake news travels faster. Digital thugs hound dissenters. The Police withdraws or files complaints. News of financial frauds, tax evasion and official economic statistics are released or suppressed.
TV anchors scream and shut up any guest questioning their set agenda. The ruling party leaders fire the weapons of “patriotism” and religion to generate hatred. The “traitors” are asked to go to Pakistan. A visitor to India might get the impression that India is teeming with Pakistanis!
The dominating discourse is not about growing unemployment or farmers’ suicides. It focuses on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that he is a watchman (chokidar) and the opposition leaders’ response that this watchman is a thief (chor). The ruling party leaders insert the title chokidarbefore their names in social media accounts! This is to show their solidarity with the leader. A mature nation seems to regress.
A mature nation seems to regress.
The mother of all poll battles has begun! India has done it 16 times, winning global appreciation. Yet as it gets ready to elect the 17thLok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), the spectre of an endangered democracy haunts a large section of us. Some intellectuals have a premonition of the death of democracy – not in darkness but in daylight. This despite the fact that no mad military colonel lurks in the wings. Nor is he expected to emerge in the near future.
The soul of India
This anxiety is caused by the demons of democracy. The power-seeking parties have opened superstores of dreams. Party members are traders striking deals with any group ready to field them. The pre-poll season is witnessing a heavy cross-traffic of leaders defecting from one party to another. Party manifestoes are not worth the paper they are printed on. All leaders herald the end of ideology. The campaigns presume that voters have lost their minds! Voters are ready to be seduced with false promises.
Perturbed by religious polarisation, mob lynching, intolerance and suppression of dissent, most writers and artists say that this election is fought over the soul of India. What is at stake is the very idea of India. Commentators use words such as ground-breaking and watershed moment. The voters, it seems, will decide the future of India’s pluralism, diversity and inclusiveness.
A five-yearly mass participation exercise, publicised by the Election Commission as a “joyous festival of democracy”, should not have caused such dismal foreboding. This time the Commission may have to deal with the largest number of complaints about the violation of the moral code of conduct by ruling party leaders, and even officials are making political statements. It has started issuing notices.
Most of the media houses, business leaders and even some bureaucrats have openly aligned themselves with the ruling party. The rising numbers of criminal-candidates highlight the criminalisation of politics. The Election Commission is tracking the suitcases of cash flying in helicopters or the liquor bottles travelling in trucks. Many voters do not trust promises and want to exchange votes for cash.
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