Cause Effect Relationships in Indian Democracy

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No.  The Sorry State (दुर्दशा) The Cause (दुर्दशेचे कारण)
1 There occur frequent conflicts between the Chief Minister and the Governor in many states. Indian democracy is hybrid of two types, viz. the parliamentary type from the UK and the presidential type from the US
2 The political parties get more importance than our nation. The ruling power is assigned to a party having the majority support in the House. So the party becomes a necessity. So an individual, howsoever good, capable and honest he/she may be, cannot get the top position. There is no place for the individuals.
Moreover, there are provisions like anti-defection law and party whip, in the Indian democracy.
3 The opposition parties are always in the mood of opposing the ruling parties.
The stance of the parties regading a particular point during debate chnages if the positions of the parties change after an election. 		The constitution does not offer any pie of the power or the fund allocation to the opposition parties and expects them to oppose the ruling party.
4 There occurs conflict of interest between the executive and the supervisory roles. This happens due to the provision of doing the portfolio allocation to the members of the House(s).
5 There occurs the conflict of interest between the affiliation of a member to his/her constituency and the duty to be performed in the Council of Ministers for the whole nation/state. This happens due to the provision of doing the portfolio allocation to the territorial representatives. They cannot remain impartial, when it comes to making justice to other constituencies.
6 There occurs either the conflict or the collusion between the elected representative and the executive officer in the full time service, in a constituency. This happens due to the discretionary powers and the fund allocation assigned to the elected representative in the constituency.
7 The Indian democracy is suffering due to caste based politics. Unlike the untouchability, which was focibly abolished by inserting a special clause in the constituion, no clause was inserted into the constituion for abolition of the castes. On the contrary, caste based reservations were made mandatory. That led to the trouble.
8 The labourers, the farmers and the Women do not get adequate representation in the legislature. No fixed quota in representation is provided for the important factors like the labourers and the farmers. The fixed quota was assigned to various caste based groups.
The women have to settle for hardly 33% quota, based on the mindset of the reservations. This is not the correct way of providing the representation.
9 The winner in a constituency is elected on comparatively small % of total voting. A wide portion of population in a constitution remains under or no representated. This happens due to imitation of the 'First Past the Post' method followed in the UK.
There appears a stance of imitating what is done in the western nations and preferably in the UK, as earlier there was British Rule in India.
10 The woes of the common people appear not coming to an end. This happens because no attention was paid for eliminating the poliitical dynasty, while framing the constitution for independent India. So there are plenty of dynasty dominated constituencies in India. Apart from this, the bureaucracy prevails due to the provisions either in the constituion or in the relevant statutes.
11 There appears the risk of authoritarian working style. Huge power is concentrated at the hands of the Union government, due to the provisions in the constitution. Moreover, there is overlapping of the monitoring or supervisory role and the executive role.
12 There remained huge imbalance of development across the states and within the states too. This happened due to the concentration of political power at the state HQ by way of the arrangement of 'Union of States'. This resulted into the scope for exercising the bias during revenue distribution or allocation.


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Last updated on 2022.07.31. (First uploaded here on 2022.07.31.)


 

 

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