DEMOCRACY

Democracy survives on pluralism. In a democratic society, there must be space and scope for everyone; literally everyone. In an interesting development, the Indian parliament is now debating on democracy in a peculiar fashion. To counter opposition MP Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that the government is undemocratic, more than half a dozen senior ministers have defended Indian democracy as vibrant and pluralistic and demanded an apology from Rahul for degrading Indian democracy. It’s important that a democratically elected government must ensure their democratic characters and engage themselves with the opposition voices. Democracy can’t be a unilateral discourse and voices from the other side must get due space and scope in every political institution.

 

 

The biggest problem in India

Today is that we are trying to avoid diverse opinions and more keen to impose the idea of might as the democratic right. That negates the very idea of democracy and encouraging unilateralism may lead a democratic society to peril. In a democracy Parliament is the highest institution of debate and discourse. Authorities who preside over the Loksabha and Rajyasabha must ensure that every single voice of opposition must be heard and suppression of opposition voice is never accepted as a fair norm. Fortunately in our Parliamentary history there are well set examples of impartiality and fairness of the chair.

Recently, the role of the chair has come under severe questions and that is not good for our democratic fabric. Yesterday in a hard hitting Tweet Trinamul MP Mahua Moitra said-   “Last 3 days saw speaker @ombirlakota allow ONLY BJP ministers to speak on mike & then adjourn parliament with not single opposition member being allowed to speak. Democracy IS under attack. And the speaker leads from the front. And I am willing to go to jail for this tweet”.  Later she deleted her tweet.

Earlier Rahul Gandhi had the same allegations. To defend the parliamentary fairness Vice President and deputy chairman of the Rajyasabha refuted Rahul’s charge. Well, the wisdom of the chair is always to be on the supreme pedestal, but the parliamentary wisdom must contain the elements of impartiality and equal opportunities. The speaker of the Loksabha and the Chairman of the Rajysabha must ensure that impartiality and fairness should not be mere words, but that must be seen and felt by the people of this country.

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 Story By : Kedar Mishra