BJP icon L K Advani is worried as there has not been a debate on demonetization even at a late hour, and only a day after the last day of the winter session it has become a reality, making a mockery of parliamentary procedure and democracy. Anyway, it has finally happened!
The Congress and the BJP engage in finger pointing and trade accusations while the people of India are held hostage and in a state of serendipity, leaving the Indian psyche with an uncomfortable feeling. Rahul Gandhi who is vice-president of the Congress Party had better present his evidence of the Prime Minister's personal dishonesty or shut up. Rahul is already well known as an empty vessel and now he is making too much of a noise for the good of the Congress Party. Time to act, Rahul, and present your evidence if you have it! Our culture, most of the time, has been a consensus culture even when at times we have come to erroneous conclusions as in the case of caste and rebirth which is good for a laugh in the twenty-first century. Our intellectuals and learned seekers have debated endlessly over millennia in the search for ultimate truth. Unfortunately, since our fight for freedom from British Rule the concept of freedom in our country is narrow and undergone a radical change. Formerly, it was much more than the definition of political parameters and narrow identities which it has become today. India appears to a lot of non-Indians around the world as more of an anarchy than a democracy especially in the West where freedom is defined in a very large part in political terms. If India is an anarchy from the point of view of the West then it is an anarchy that works! We have our ways which is different from the West which is not to say there is no dialogue or debate. Pundit Nehru has referred often enough to democracy as a political system of consensus. Our politicians of various parties should begin a dialogue and start to debate. We, the people of India, want to hear the views of our representatives on all important issues.
