A Call to Inaction: Elections in India

The Election Commission in India proclaimed election in some states recently. All the political parties are now busy with newer promises and try to influence the voters with different ways. They repeat all these activities during the election time and we, as voters, elect someone from the list. Neither the people nor the leaders tried to improve the present system of governance in the country.

It is high time to review the history of democracy and its relevance here in India. For the last few years our governments are famous for its total inefficiency in tackling problems. Whenever there is a chance to show the glory of India, for e.g., The Commonwealth Games, we are complete failure. All such events are notable for the corruptive sides rather than any positives in it. Whether the party in power is leftist, rightist, or extreme right wing the rule is the same. Communal violence, corruption, and total carelessness in matters related to human freedom and expression of independent opinions.

The question I would like to ask here is, do we need this kind of governmental set-up here? We have the right to elect the most “corrupted” politician, not the best one. Do we really have a choice to decide about our own representatives? No.
When the rulers are inefficient, when we have no better choice, the only way to show our feeling is to keep away from the democratic system itself. Away from the election process itself.
I am not against democracy as such. I am not an anarchist. I am not an anti national. But I can see the decay of the system. And I foresee the advent of a new system of representation in place of democracy. In different countries in the world including Libya, Egypt and several other nations anti-national struggles are going on. There is no such issue in India, not because of the efficiency of the system, but because of the inefficiency of the people. We are living in a comfort zone without being bothered about all these issues. A time will come to reminds us that we are too late to respond...
We can’t follow the Libyan model or the Egyptian one. So the thing we can do is to show our reaction through boycotting the election process. Our histories taught us about the divide and rule policy of the Britishers when they rule us. The same history texts talk nothing about the present day Divide and Rule policy of our own representatives. The history texts talks about the colonial judicial system which was prevalent in India. But the same texts forget to mention that our own judiciary is similar to colonial judicial set up.
Reference:
1.Wikipedia contributors. "Indian political scandals." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2 Mar. 2011. Web. 3 Mar. 2011.
2. Communal riots in post-independence India. By Asgharali EngineerGoogle Book Search http://books.google.co.in/books?id=yB5NM0o3I9QC&lpg=PA165&ots=CeQlz8ksiL&dq=communal%20violence%20in%20post%20independent%20India&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q=communal%20violence%20in%20post%20independent%20India&f=false