POLITICS IN DEMOCRACY ?

LETS LOOK AT THE NATURE OF OUR GOVERNING SYSTEM,AFTER THE GROWTH OF REGIONAL PARTIES, WE NOW HAVE A COALITION GOVERNMENT AT THE CENTER,COALITIONS ARE HERE TO STAY,WHILE SOME CONSIDER COALITIONS AS A GOOD INDICATOR OF DEMOCRACY FUNCTIONING AT ITS OTHERS SEE IT AS A BIG CHALLENGE FOR INDIA TO SEPARATE ITSELF FROM THE CONFLICT OF NATIONAL AND REGIONAL INTERESTS,

BUT ESSENTIALLY INDIAN IS A MIXED BAG OF MANY DIMENSION - URBAN - RURAL; RICH- POOR, HINDU-MUSLIM : BACKWARD AND FORWARD CASTES, SO PROBLEM ARE NOTHING BUT NOTHING BUT MANIFESTATIONS OF REGIONAL ASPIRATION WHICH WHICH DONOT ALWAYS GET NOTICED BY LARGE NATIONAL PARTIES, IN SUCH A SCENARIO, THE RISE OF REGIONAL PARTIES, WITH THEIR FOCUS ON REGIONAL ISSUES AND PROBLEM, USUALLY, OVERLOOKED BY THE NATIONAL PARTIES, IS ONLY NATURAL BUT THERE CAN BE A DANGER WHEN THESE REGIONAL PARTIES FUEL CASTE AND REGIONAL DIVIDES, IN A COALITION SYSTEM, THERE IS A DEFINITE CHALLENGE FOR INDIAN TO BRING TOGETHER THE ASPIRATIONS OF BOTH NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PARTIES AND TO FIND SOME COMMON GROUND TO HARMONISE THEIR INTEREST, IT IS HARDLY SURPRISING THAT ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT A COALITION GOVERNMENT TRIES TO DO IS TO DRAFT A COMMON MINIMUM PROGRAMME WHICH DEFINE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE COALITION, AS LONG AS REGIONAL PARTIES AND GOVERNMENT UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF ADDRESSING LOCAL ASPIRATIONS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NATIONAL WELFARE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THERE IS NO THREAT TO THE DEMOCRATIC FABRIC OF THE COUNTRY.

A SERIOUS POLITICAL CHALLENGE THAT WE FACE IS FORM THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES IN THE FORM OF PROBLEM SUCH AS INSURGENCY, TERRORISM, BIOTERRORISM AND NUCLEAR THREATS, AS ONE OF THE STRONGEST ECONOMIC NATIONAL IN ASIA, INDIA SHOULD DEAL WITH THESE ISSUES ECONOMICALLY, SOCIALLY, INDIAN SOCIETY REMAINS STRAITFIED BY DIFFERENCE IN RELIGION AND CASTE, IT IS DIFFICULT TO GET SOCIETY OF THESE EVIL EASILY BECAUSE POLITICAL PARTIES BANK ON THESE DIVIDES TO GET VOTES, THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO BE VIGILANT OF PARTIES THAT STRATIFY SOCIETIES FOR ELECTORAL GAIN,

" He is independent mp - irrespective of who forms the government, he willbe a cabinet minister !"

MORE THAN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES, IT IS THE POLITICS OF THE COUNTRY THAT ONE NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT,MOST POLITICAL PARTIES AGREE ON THE ECONOMIC AGENDA FOR THE COUNTRY BUT IT IS THE SOCIAL ONE THAT IS AN AREA OF EXTREME SENSITIVITY, EACH PARTY TRIES TO EXPLOIT ITS POLITICAL BASE AND REPRESENT THE INTEREST OF RESPECTIVE CONSTITUENCEIES, THIS IS NATURAL IN A DEMOCRACY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO WORK, TOWARD UPLIFTING AND EMPOWERING BACKWARD COMMUNITIES, AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE, WE SHOULD STRIVE FOR A FAIR AND EGALITARIAN SOCIETY WHERE THERE IS NO NEED FOR RESERVATION, PEOPLE SHOULD BE GIVEN A CHANGE TO STAND ON THEIR FEET AND PROVE THEIR WORTH ON THEIR OWN MERIT, THAT THE ONLY WAY WE CAN LIBERATE MARGINALISED SECTION AND GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO BE PART OF NATIONAL-BUILDING,