I hope people will see what the
article is trying to say. Basically it says that 'People get the govt it
deserves" . And that speaks very poorly about us all Indians, about all
Assamese, if we really belive that we have an elected dictatorship..
To be a strong democracy, people
will have to be courageous. The democracy in the west is strong is exactly for
this reason. They love freedom and have to couurage to fight and die for their
freedom. Compared to that Indians
as depicted by the article are cowards. They are afraid of their MLAs and MPs
and they cannot say anything against them.
Now some will argue that no, it is
the system. not the people. I say to them that it is the people who made the
system.
RB
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India is an Elected Dictatorship
Is India a democratic nation? Everyone says so.
India is the largest democracy in the world. Really? Yes, we do have
by-and-large free elections (except in Goonda areas, ask Taslumuddin, Shibu
Soren
.). Yes, we have never had a military coup. But does that mean we have
democracy? This question has puzzled me for a while as I have never felt India
practices democracy. Whenever I am in India, I am scared of police while here in
USA I feel absolutely safe. While thinking a bit today I finally discovered the
answer I was looking for: India is an elected dictatorship. Think about it:
can you ever conceive going against a local MLA or MP? Have you read any
newspaper ever criticizing any MLA, MP, Minister
? What happened to Tehelka.com
when they took on some members of the Govt? They were lucky they took on the
modest Vajpayee Govt; had they gone against Indira Gandhi or Rajeev
Gandhi
..Tehelka.com would have been closed and Tehelka journalists would be
behind bars on some trumped up charges. How come no FIR was ever filed for
several years against Rajeev Gandhi when he was alive? (An FIR was filed after
Rajeev Gandhi was murdered and Congress Govt. lost power). In a democracy with
people on top, an FIR would have been filed immediately; however Rajeev Gandhi
being a dictator no one dared touch him. Rajeev was an elected dictator.
Everyone knows that in Delhi every day there must be happening hundreds of
thousands of big bribe transactions. One million Govt. folks there X one big
bribe transaction minimum every tenth day (more likely every day) = 100,000
bribe transactions every day. How many of these do you see reported in
newspapers every day? If you are lucky, may be one in a month. How come so few
ever get reported? Answer: Because our journalists are afraid of their life. If
this were happening in USA, the journalists would be having a field day.
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