Vicissititudes of democracy in India

Vicissititudes of democracy as projected in India
Democracy is like the flow of a river. As long as it is gentle it flows with a pat on the bed and give coolness to the banks. History depicts civilizations and cultures formed, nourished and flourished on their banks. Similarly, democracy is expected to conduct smoothly taking into account of peoples’ welfare, freedom and prosperity.
Rivers, however, when flooded are atrocious and ruthless. They loose their sight, understanding, identification, contributiveness and utility destroying every thing that fall on their path whether good or bad, useful or useless or valuable or valueless. Democracy often gets subjected to frustration when it turns like flooded river and throws out the cardinal principles and practices of serving the people.
India is presently facing a similar situation. More than 60 years of its implementation, the system has been losing its path, focusing and application in view. It has been encroaching into side sleuths and into artificial perforations which are causing destruction to the strong walls of the banks and convert everything into slush and mud.
The political parties are losing their probity and poise and are turned into a species of their own nurturing a tendency to grab every thing glittering. They are suffering a certain kind of political cataract losing in appreciable attitudes and in a democratic approach. ‘Horse Trading’ has been the play of the day and the cohesion of the parties are broken the citadel of the strong houses of the parent political parties shaded with self interest dominating the common interests. There are now all kinds of snakes and insects penetrated into these political houses eating its own share of flesh and blood leaving the organisation weak and vulnerable to sickness and deformity. Innumerous regional parties have sprung up like beetles in the garden to live on the honey and fragrance of the flowers. They exploit the innocence of the public and build their pleasure-huts upon their poverty and helplessness.
Corruption disguised as mosquitoes sucks the blood of the ordinary people day and night when the politician stays behind the net enjoying monarchic joy oblivious of forums of functions and parliament and assemblies. They have their own sand hills converted into fortresses and live protected by their cocoons and the so-called caucus. They snore like Alsatians as if to save the public but in disguise protect their own homes and houses. They create shrieks allover the work place like a mouse pretending to be working hard and never loose to grab everything for self and spoil the balance to let none to live on, on the remnants. We have our bureaucratic cockroaches and insects to live on spills causing nuisance to public while clinching on to patience for their survival.
The scandals involving huge money slandering are the handy works of the combined political and bureaucratic power blocks and they are no worse than leaches and tapeworms. The black money accumulated at the behest of these power blocks are pivotal for the slow growth of the economy of the country and these power blocks continue to grow the black money day-after-day as they are habituated in the enjoyment of the plundered wealth.
Clubs and sickles, bows and arrows, lanterns and ladders elephants or oxen and hands and lotuses are immersed in mud and all look like same and nobody is saner than the other while compete themselves to be worse than the other as suckers and plunders. They have been behaving like hungry wolves living on the lion’s prey. The current conservative political leadership is parasitic and has lost all the credentials to be the servants of the people.
However, we have now our youth power on the threshold on whom we can bestow our hopes who can take over the struggle of economic freedom and emancipation. We have to now initiate a new freedom struggle to save ourselves from the burden of the yokes of the ‘mafia’ now active with political support. The youth know their priorities now as they have been the sufferers so far at the instance of the abattoirs of political system in the country. There is now better transparency among our youth and they have experienced the glass houses of the erstwhile politicians whose lips and fingers had marks of bloodstains on them. They have their professional remedy with them to save the country from this bankruptcy.
Our country has its inherent strength to grow tarnishing all the blockades and the youth can definitely give a better leadership and to take the country into its original path. The duty of the electorate now is to strengthen the hands of the youth to clean the dirt away and bring the glory back.

M.S.Kumaran