DailyPost 2907 THE FUTILITY OF ELECTIONS Without getting into the nitty gritty of democracy, its institutions, checks and balances and all that it professes and intends to achieve, as aptly enumerated in the preamble, elections are primordial to democratic existence. Without any exaggeration it can be said that no elections means no democracy. If election […]
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DailyPost 2890 HAS DOCTORS STRIKE / CAUSE REACHED A DEAD END? Have we reached the post-governance age of Indian democracy? In this age the fruits of political / bureaucratic or any power emanating out of official position is to be exploited to the hilt, for personal gains. It is in continuation of election manifestos having
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DailyPost 2888 IS IT THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THE EXECUTIVE… Is executive an enterprise to provide day to day utilities, small and big, to provide necessary approvals / licenses, to make the polices as mandated by the legislature, run welfare schemes, execute beneficiary cash transfers and run administrative machinery at scale? This is
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DailyPost 2665 AN EVENTFUL DEMOCRACY! What does an eventful democracy mean? It means the vibrant functioning of a robust democracy punctuated by democratic events, which add meaning to our existence and can proudly be treated as milestones in our journey to a democratically developed nation. How much of that has been happening is left your
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DailyPost 2444 DEMOCRACY AUDIT Weird as it may sound, it is high time, that we have clear cut parameters of it, which will clear a lot of smoke, which is deliberately created by one party of the other. The need for the electorate is very clear, being a part of the democracy brigade, by their
DailyPost 2443 INDIAN DEMOCRACY’S UNFULFILLED PROMISES Indian citizen’s tryst with democracy has been a litany of unfulfilled promises of endless types; shapes, sizes and dimensions, durations – short, medium or long, constitutional guarantees to poll manifestoes to the current day guarantees. The genre is endless, the personas are wide and varied, the situations demanding to
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DailyPost 2438 DEMOPTICS Democracy heavily dependent on optics can be defined as the demoptics. Democracy was meant to be a practitioner’s playbook, for people who would give up everything to working relentlessly for the welfare of the people. Demoptics is both a theoretical construct, mindset, attitude and also a practice which is being perfected with
DailyPost 2398 WINNABILITY / DOABILITY While the India constitution barely prescribes for any qualification for being a candidate to fight elections, political parties have their diktat above and beyond it. If you were to ask for the ticket of any big party based on the qualifications provided by the constitution, you can in for a
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DailyPost 2374 CORRUPTION, CRIME, POWER HUNGRY, VESTED INTERESTS AND DEMOCRACY Power hungry is the best description of the prima donnas of Indian democracy and it peters down to the lowest levels; that of the gram panchayat and also to the last worker or the party. Power comes out of elections to legislatures; through becoming a
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DailyPost 2373 EDUCATIONAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES Democracy believes as is the law, theory and practice in this country, once you meet the democratically mandated qualifications, you are fit to rule. It primarily means you winning an election, or for topmost posts being elected the leader of the legislative party. Any political executive’s job anyone elected
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DailyPost 2367 DEMOCRATIC SLAVERY Democracy was to usher in a welfare state, a state where the state would take care of every individual, or at least try its level best in a very conspicuous manner, to the satisfaction of each of the constituents. Somebody else will think on your behalf, plan and act too, so
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