'Great India'. Indian democracy: Problems and solutions
(Political philosophy)
Author
:
C.K Sudhakaran
Language
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English
Publisher
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Rain books
I would summarize the basic flaws, the pseudo-ness and perversions, which cause this degeneration as:
1.
Negation of inner-party democracy: Breeds nepotism, sycophancy and incompetence in political leadership hierarchy through nominations. Such leadership breeds corruption, moral decay and inefficiency in the system and society.
2.
Indirect election of chief Executive –PM/CMs: Makes this post susceptible to coercions by tainted self-serving political pressure groups. Causes splits in and proliferation of political parties, coalition politics and instability.
3.
Candidate/party/constituency Elections: Dwarves potential political leaders to the smallest constituency level. Distorts proportions between true public support/votes won by political parties and their actual representation in the concerned representative bodies to dangerous levels.
Most important symbol of the ‘pseudo-ness of our system is ‘Negation of competition’ – manipulation by our self-serving political leadership to strengthen their reign. Most of the ‘third-world nations’ are afflicted by such manipulation.
To provide a much better system, most importantly an ever-rejuvenating political leadership of competent men of integrity, that would strive to solve any anomalies as they arise in our society, that would readily adopt to the socio-political and technological changes of the society, I propose following changes to our system:
1.
Mandatory inner-party democracy: to induct and promote competence in political leadership hierarchy. To boosts public morale with such competent role models. To eliminates splits in political parties by disappointed aspirants - by allowing aspirants to match their comparative competence/(approval among their party members.
2.
Direct election of Chief Executive: to eliminates instabilities of hung parliaments and compulsion for coalitions, which cause proliferation of political parties. To liberate this important position from coercions and manipulations by political power brokers, which is a cause for corruption and criminalization of politics. To breed stability, competence and efficiency in governance.
3.
Elections in Proportional representative/List-system: to create truly proportional representation to popular vote of each party. To eliminate coalitions and related pampering and proliferation of regional/ethnic parties and splinter groups. To precipitate a political polarization to two healthy parties. To avoid candidates identifying with a particular/(small) constituency and exploiting its ethnic schism. To project politicians to wider regions (state/national levels) helping them to grow in stature.
Sudhakaran. C. K
Born on 25th December 1949
at Narayanamangalam Desam
Pulloot Village
Trichur District
Kerala state
