WE NEED PRESIDENTIAL DEMOCRACY TO FIX THE SLIDE
1. It is amply clear that Indian politico-administrative system has degenerated beyond tolerable limits and some well structured "HOLISTIC COURSE CORRECTION" has to be applied. With more than 1740 registered political parties with Election Commission of India, the national politicshas drifted away from people's welfare to power game politics where the influence of outside world has been fully entrenched.
2. The real cause of this malady is the nature of our Nation-State being that of parliamentary republic, where the legislative and executive powers are vested in the hands of same individuals. In constitutional Monarchy, the monarch is an institution in itself which exerts lot of moral and role model influence on citizens and the executive as well as legislature. This moral and role model influence is not found in parliamentary republics the world over, thus giving rise to unconstitutional power centre. It means few people who are not accountable to democratic institutions will have absolute power which will give rise to corruption and degenerated governance. A broader view suggests that constitutional monarchies have declined in their power and influence in modern era.
3. Constitutions arise in a number of different ways. At the non-democratic extreme of the spectrum, we may imagine a sovereign lawgiver laying down the constitution for all later generations. At the democratic extreme, we may imagine a constituent assembly elected by universal suffrage for the sole task of writing a new constitution. And there are all sorts of intermediate arrangements.
4. "A legitimate constitution depended on whether the sovereign people authorized it, not whether a particular procedure was used or whether revolutionary conventions were free of other responsibilities, such as passing ordinary legislation. It is the people as the sovereign who authorize drafting the constitutions that give them their legitimacy, not whether they used procedures that matched what was later understood to be necessary to create fundamental law".
5. After 68 years of parliamentary democracy, the tremors of inbuilt instability of this system are visible more than ever before. The National General elections threw up coalition governments for 25 years since 1989 elections till the General Elections of 2014. The coalition governments appeared more regionalistic than nationalistic. Encouraging corruption and failing to take firm actions against wrong doers. Hundreds of lakh crores rupees are stashed away in tax havens swindled as kick-backs, illegal exploitation of natural resources, and non-payment of taxes; and various governments seemed reluctant to get back this money.
6. In the state of Jharkhand, lone independent MLA headed the state government and on completion of 5 years tenure, witch-hunted for swindling of crores of rupees. In a country which is richly endowed by nature, 70% of its people live in abject poverty and hunger. Lakhs of tones of harvested food grains are either destroyed due to rains for want of adequate storage facilities or allowed to rot to cover-up the pilferage of the food grains.
7. Corruption is at its zenith. Nothing moves without greasing the palms of the powers that control the every facet of human life. Corruption is the sole cause of India's all sufferings; be it black money, unemployment, human trafficking, rising prices, illiteracy, poor infrastructure, adulteration, price rise, devaluation of currency, poor law and order situation, female child infanticide, military unpreparedness, terrorism, criminalization of politics, electoral uncertainties, traffic jams, shortage of housing facilities, falling standards of education, foreign direct investment, etc. Crores and crores of public money is misappropriated and passes to private hands. Crony capitalism and phoney socialism is the order of the day. Justice is delivered in exchange for monetary gratification. All so called developmental projects are conceived and implemented with the sole objective of siphoning off the funds. School and higher education has become a great business.
8. The country is bullied by tiny neighbours almost on daily basis. Where terrorist attacks are the order of the day but the elected governments look over shoulders as to what is to be done. Where crime against citizens is on the rise but the administration proves ineffective. And in the age of globalization, new terms and phrases are coined to keep the poor out of the developmental loop and thus denying the fruits of progress. All parties are indulging in competitive jingoism on women empowerment, not realizing the fact that it will make the women more vulnerable.
9. The political parties of today have in fact failed so far to formulate a concept of our identity and relevant ideology which is dangerous for our democracy. No wonder, our people are confused about the future, and the youth led astray. If this continues, the ensuing disorder may threaten the collapse of the Indian Union. Still no political party as on date is thinking along these futuristic lines. The so called main parties of the political spectrum of today cannot provide the frame-work for our identity and ideology. There is a wide gap between policy and practice of these Parties.
10. The nation is on the throes of deep identity crisis and ideological bankruptcy. At the cross roads of history today, the future of our country is crucially dependent on making the right choice of direction. The present political turmoil has thrown up anti-national and anti-social forces which now seriously threatened our national integrity, and have sown doubts in the people's mind about the nation's future.
11. No political party has come forward to provide an answer. To address this inherent instability and inadequacy of the system, it is high time to look at the alternative system of governance, which is transparent, representative, decisive, honest and decentralised.
12. The "Sainik Samaj Party" has delved into proposing PRESIDENTIAL DEMOCRACY as an alternative system of governance for India and and seeking the mandate of the people of India to implement it in the years to come.
13. Let us Implement the IDEA - PRESIDENTIAL DEMOCRACY.
BHARATVARSH KI JAI.
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