The reason why RTI is not working in India is because the concept of RTI itself 
is alien to democracy and is actually borrowed from Marxism-Leninism (as 
interpreted by the great helmsman). We all saw the recent spectacle (farce) of 
the BJP sponsored cut-motion (supported) by Communists in Parliament.

I wonder how many of us would agree with these words of a famous international 
leader on this issue below. Can you identify the leader without using google or 
another search engine :-) ???

"Political struggle that results in the victory of a candidate with, for 
example, 51 per cent of the votes leads to a dictatorial governing body in the 
guise of a false democracy, since 49 per cent of the electorate is ruled by an 
instrument of government they did not vote for, but which has been imposed upon 
them. Such is dictatorship. Besides, this political conflict may produce a 
governing body that represents only a minority. For when votes are distributed 
among several candidates, though one polls more than any other, the sum of the 
votes received by those who received fewer votes might well constitute an 
overwhelming majority. However, the candidate with fewer votes wins and his 
success is regarded as legitimate and democratic! In actual fact, dictatorship 
is established under the cover of false democracy. This is the reality of the 
political systems prevailing in the world today. They are dictatorial systems 
and it is evident that they falsify genuine democracy.

Parliaments are the backbone of that conventional democracy prevailing in the 
world today. Parliament is a misrepresentation of the people, and parliamentary 
systems are a false solution to the problem of democracy. A parliament is 
originally founded to represent the people, but this in itself is undemocratic 
as democracy means the authority of the people and not an authority acting on 
their behalf. The mere existence of a parliament means the absence of the 
people. True democracy exists only through the direct participation of the 
people, and not through the activity of their representatives. Parliaments have 
been a legal barrier between the people and the exercise of authority, 
excluding the masses from meaningful politics and monopolizing sovereignty in 
their place. People are left with only a facade of democracy, manifested in 
long queues to cast their election ballots.

To lay bare the character of parliaments, one has to examine their origin. They 
are either elected from constituencies, a party, or a coalition of parties, or 
are appointed. But all of these procedures are undemocratic, for dividing the 
population into constituencies means that one member of parliament represents 
thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of people, depending on the size 
of the population. It also means that a member keeps few popular organizational 
links with the electors since he, like other members, is considered a 
representative of the whole people. This is what the prevailing traditional 
democracy requires. The masses are completely isolated from the representative 
and he, in turn, is totally removed from them. Immediately after winning the 
electors' votes the representative takes over the people's sovereignty and acts 
on their behalf. The prevailing traditional democracy endows the member of 
parliament with a sacredness and immunity which are denied to the rest of the 
people. Parliaments, therefore, have become a means of plundering and usurping 
the authority of the people. It has thus become the right of the people to 
struggle, through popular revolution, to destroy such instruments - the 
so-called parliamentary assemblies which usurp democracy and sovereignty, and 
which stifle the will of the people. The masses have the right to proclaim 
reverberantly the new principle: no representation in lieu of the people.

If parliament is formed from one party as a result of its winning an election, 
it becomes a parliament of the winning party and not of the people. It 
represents the party and not the people, and the executive power of the 
parliament becomes that of the victorious party and not of the people. The same 
is true of the parliament of proportional representation in which each party 
holds a number of seats proportional to their success in the popular vote. The 
members of the parliament represent their respective parties and not the 
people, and the power established by such a coalition is the power of the 
combined parties and not that of the people. Under such systems, the people are 
the victims whose votes are vied for by exploitative competing factions who 
dupe the people into political circuses that are outwardly noisy and frantic, 
but inwardly powerless and irrelevant. Alternatively, the people are seduced 
into standing in long, apathetic, silent queues to cast their ballots in the 
same way that they throw waste paper into dustbins. This is the traditional 
democracy prevalent in the whole world, whether it is represented by a 
one-party, two-party, multiparty or non-party system. Thus it is clear that 
representation is a fraud."

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