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Reforming and Restructuring Indian Political Process - ramana - 05-24-2012 Ravish wrote Quote:If there had been no free and fair election in India, it would not have been possible for so many different individuals belonging to different political parties and formations to be the Prime Minister of India. So the sweeping statement that free and fair election is a pipe dream is not correct. I request a discussion on the points highlighted in his above post namely: - Progress of the nation has been sub-par in many areas - This failure can be attributed to the entire political class across all parties - Corruption is very pervasive and eating into the body politic of India - Raise of regional parties has led to pressure groups that led to action paralysis, erosion of accountability and weakened the decision/policy making ability of government. Reforming and Restructuring Indian Political Process - ravish - 05-27-2012 Ramanaji, Two days have passed and there have been no postings ,so I am taking the liberty in giving a start to the discussions. The answer to your first question:- Since adoption of our Constitution in 1950, India has been a welfare state. Every year, huge resources have been allocated to ensure that the poorest of the poor gets a better life. In the process, those higher up in the social ladder were also to benefit automatically. During the successive 5 year plans , this has been the main objective of our policy makers. So during the last six decades, a number of schemes have been lunched to ensure social and economic development of the most vulnerable section of the society. If one goes through the voluminous detailed documents available on the various measures that have been taken to reach these noble objectives, we find that no aspect has been left out. The schemes covered food, health, education , employment etc. Now when we look back and take stock of the situation , what do we find? There is widespread hunger and poverty, affecting over 200 million of our citizens. A large number of them have no roof over their head, continue to be illiterate and somehow manages to remain alive. The infant mortality rate in India is same as that of sub Saharan Africa. India continues to be the home for the largest number of poor people in the world. What has gone wrong? Is it our vast increase in population, or is it corruption and faulty planning that has resulted in this poor performance.Do we lack the expertise and trained manpower to bring in the required socio economic development of the poorest of the poor. Other members may kindly respond to carry forward the discussion..... Reforming and Restructuring Indian Political Process - ramana - 06-28-2013 Any takers yet? Reforming and Restructuring Indian Political Process - ravish - 07-01-2013 Unfortunately there have been no takers during the last 12 months. Probably the for the rich and educated who are on the Internet in India and Indians abroad, this is not a subject of any public interest. Reforming and Restructuring Indian Political Process - Capt Manoj Singh - 03-18-2014 [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfoV1MxCSvA"]An interesting video that I would like to share[/url] Reforming and Restructuring Indian Political Process - ravish - 10-18-2014 The reforming and the restructuring of the Indian political process have already started at a great speed since the just concluded General Election. It was fought more on a presidential line rather than on a parliamentary line. Shri Modi could mobilize the voters on his own in almost all the States of India. It was surprising to see that h3e could corner a sizable number of votes in a State like West Bengal where the BJP does not even have a proper organization . Similarly, in UP the caste and religious factor did not work, as is seen by the performance of BSP and SP. same has been the case in Rajasthan . The regional parties are almost finished and it is only the two national parties viz BJP and Congress that are now visible. For a vibrant democracy, there needs to be a working opposition party. At present the Congress with its 44 odd members is in a limbo. It is time for the regional parties to fold up their organization and join the two National level parties. In the process, we may see many more effective one party government in the future. We had the coalition experience, which resulted in delayed decision making and indecisiveness on many important national issue. The mood of the general public at the moment is to have accelerated development of the Nation. In this race, caste, religion and regional factors have lost their importance. |