There seems to be nowadays everywhere a cry for peace and abundance, for union and brotherhood, for cultural revival, social welfare and world-uplift. Our young men and women are led away by the veneer of a spurious civilisation and blinded by the glamour of material prosperity. International tension is caused by the clash of political ideologies, not because of religious aspirations. Democracy is considered as the government of the people, by the people and for the people. The idea is that every citizen in the country is made to feel a responsibility in regard to the well-being of the nation, and everyone has the choice and the right to choose the best among themselves for the purpose of being placed at the helm of affairs. = ALL FALSE, OPPOSITE IS HAPPENING NOW, NEGATIVE RESULT.

Opinion
      13/05/2018
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Sub : There seems to be nowadays everywhere a cry for peace and abundance, for union and brotherhood, for cultural revival, social welfare and world-uplift. Our young men and women are led away by the veneer of a spurious civilisation and blinded by the glamour of material prosperity. International tension is caused by the clash of political ideologies, not because of religious aspirations. Democracy is considered as the government of the people, by the people and for the people. The idea is that every citizen in the country is made to feel a responsibility in regard to the well-being of the nation, and everyone has the choice and the right to choose the best among themselves for the purpose of being placed at the helm of affairs. =  ALL FALSE, OPPOSITE IS HAPPENING NOW, NEGATIVE RESULT.

Ref : Political Science and Administration
Swami Krishnananda

Democracy is considered as the government of the people, by the people and for the people. The idea is that every citizen in the country is made to feel a responsibility in regard to the well-being of the nation, and everyone has the choice and the right to choose the best among themselves for the purpose of being placed at the helm of affairs. Democracy has been regarded latterly as the most suitable form of government, since it deprives a single person or even a group of people of the authority to lord over others, and the authority is invested with the citizens as a whole. It is a government of common consensus of the public in general, so that no one can complain as to the nature and the form of the working of the governmental machinery.

However, Plato considers democracy as the worst form of government, because it invests the mob with power and treats the wise and the fool on equal terms. In the system of voting, democracy has one vote for a genius and one vote for the illiterate and the ignorant. The quantitative assessment of the value of administration does not pay attention to the quality that is necessary for managing the affairs of the State.

For instance, the person chosen by ten great masters of understanding and experience may be defeated in election by a person chosen by several hundreds of the common masses, who are empowered by the system of democracy with an equal value as that which one would associate with men of true knowledge and experience.

Further, the democratic system has no foolproof method of avoiding such forms of corruption in election as coercion, intimidation and even purchase, when the voters are not always people who are properly educated in the meaning of democracy and a democratic organisation of government.

Democracy, perhaps, expects almost impossible qualities from the general public as the wisdom to know what is right and wrong, as if everyone equally is capable of that kind of achievement. Else, the quality of efficiency would be sacrificed at the altar of a chaotic mass of the quantity in the form of a mere counting of heads.

Plato feels that one day or the other people are likely to get fed up with the system of democratic government, for, in this system, people are made to feel that they have the power of choice, while, in fact, they have no such power, for reasons already mentioned earlier. Above all this, there is the well-nigh possibility of the person chosen democratically as the leader turning a despot and a veritable king by himself.

Wherever we turn, we seem to be striking our head against the unavoidability of someone being there as the centre of authority, which is just the meaning of monarchy, though the head of the State may not wear a crown, or be seated on a throne. The centring of all authority in one person is the principle of monarchy, and this fearsome possibility seems to be insinuating itself into every form of the political set-up, since, in the end, it is difficult to conceive two persons having equal authority.

Being tired of the diluted and essence-less system of a nebulous democracy of people – and everyone's responsibility can turn into no one's responsibility – the people may choose to have, again, a single person as the ruling power, as the last alternative, but this time the ruler being a likely tyrant. It goes without saying that tyranny is the darkest phase into which the administrative system can descend, wherein the ruling authority has the least concern over the feelings of others and is mindful only of the meticulous discharge of his own will, whim and fancy.

As truth is said to triumph finally, and concentration of power in some corner exclusively is not the policy of Nature, despotism, autocracy or tyranny have their fall not very far from the date of their rising to the surface of the political field.

All told, it may follow that, for whatever reason, the present-day humanity cannot choose any other form of government than a well-constituted democracy, since, while it may have certain characteristics which are bad, the other systems have characteristics which are worse.

OPINION :-

1. Democracy in Bharatham is becoming weak, the first reason, Regional parties;

2. Democracy is given new life, if two or three National parties contest in assembly as well as Parliament elections;

3. At present no regional party can become a National party;

4. So regional parties causing damage to National unity in no time;

5. Regional parties must be avoided;

6. Election campaign: road shows, rallies, and all present mimics must be avoided;

7. Instead debates on National and regional issues between contestants must be arranged under a common supervision, for judgment;

8. No posters, no flex boards, no arches, no wall writing etc totally banned;

9. This way election expenditure is reduced;

10. No cash transaction in any political party concerned, implement all digital only;

11. All criminal record holders, keep away from contesting elections;

12. Religion, caste, backwardness should not be a tool for campaigning;

13. Election commission should decide the eligibility of contestant, by a board comprising, psychologist;

14. No fire works or any other public disturbing rallies once results announced.

15. A Request to election commission :- A provision to recall the elected rep by the Voter, if rep not performing well; secondly, if his behaviour not good in the house proceedings; if he is not contributing anything for Nation's developments and people welfare; if his public life is indiscipline, characterless and not honest; if he commits crime; etc ...

Jaihind;
Vandematharam