INDIA – A POLITICOCRATIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT

A Government is a form of organization of State having a system of governance based on it nature of formation and in India’s case the attitude of its constituents. A Democratic form of Government is a Government by the people and is just a larger version of a society which ignores hereditary class distinctions and tolerates minority views.

If a person where to call the Indian Government a Democratic Government, he or she must be blind, deaf and dumb. In a true Democratic Government, the Politics should begin and end with elections and Democracy should stand thereafter. But in India, the Democracy begins and ends with the elections, as the elections are the only democratic process in India and thereafter only Politics stands. So I think it is better we call our Government a Politicocratic form of Government.

Everything here is ruled by Politicians, their Political aspirations and political correctness. The politics, politicians and political consideration decides whether an Industry should be set up at a particular place or whether a region should be developed or not.

The political consideration motivates our Government to try and pursue the Government of another country to safeguard the life and interest of residents of Indian origin in that country. Irrespective of the consideration I respect that intention. But the absence of the political consideration failed to produce the same intention when it came to the question of coming to the rescue of Indian citizens held captive by Somalian Pirates.

But I am not at all blaming the politicians of our country for this state of affairs. It is we the self-centred, narrow-minded, short sighted citizens of this country who are responsible for all this. Why did it take a Raj Thackerey or our honorable Minister of Civil Aviation, who is more a spokesman for a particular Airline than the governing authority of Aviation sector, to come to the rescue of the terminated employees of Jet Airways rather than the vast population of citizens of India who should have gheroad the Office of the Airline and questioned the unethical terms of employment that they follow. Why did the users of Air-transport not call for a immediate boycott of Jet Airways which does not have a human face in conduct of its affairs.

It is we the the Indians, especially the Middle Class Indians who are solely responsible for the destruction of Democratic norms in India. We are the tools of Democracy, but unfortunately we are rusted.