Why it is important for villagers to take part in government
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It's March 2042. India’s Parliament is debating the new government’s most ambitious constitutional amendment proposal. It seeks to give panchayats the mandate to have their own budgets, just like the Central and state governments.
Just five years ago, the country has switched to a presidential form of government. The constitutional amendment that brought this change was bitterly contested. Media reports say the latest amendment will sail through smoothly. While the ruling party has termed the move “path breaking”, other parties say it is a political necessity. But finally, every party wants panchayats to be “super governments”.
Ignored for decades and denied autonomy, there are widespread reports of elected panchayat heads having laid siege to legislative assemblies. Surprisingly, political parties that earlier protested power devolution to the last tier of government are now enthusiastic participants in the protests. It is expected that the first president of the United States of India, who was said to be under immense pressure from his party to suggest the amendment, would declare the arrival of the newly empowered village republics in a televised programme.