I too have a dream – A Great India

I too have a dream – A Great India

6-11-2008

Many experts, participating in debates on American/Obama election, had been saying some thing like:

‘This election proved that  ‘America is a great place of happening. An American, if competent enough, have the freedom to dream anything - even the highest office, irrespective his cast, creed and colour…  and have unrestricted right to contest and strive to achieve it’.

Contrast this with ours:

• Can an Indian afford such a dream in the present political set up?
• Do we stand a chance of getting even a nomination of a political party as its candidate for elections to any elected office – even to a legislature or Panchayat council – if we are not close enough to, a kin or a lackey of, the reigning caucus of the concerned party at the concerned level??

·        Denial of a ticket by CPM to Achuthanandan (present CM of Kerala, is just one among many such cases allover India in almost all political arties.

·        Was not the Prime Minister-ship of Dr. Manmohan Sing a gift from Sonia Gandhi? 

Such manipulations have been accepted as norm, rather than an aberration, in our political system.

Is not this lackey-ism a humiliation, a curse, for a Democracy?

Or can it at all be called a Democracy? …

More than a democracy… it is a democratic perversion/farce.

Here we flaunt extravagantly all the paraphernalia of a democracy, but with out its soul.

• Do we get a chance to evaluate and elect head of our governments at any level… national … down to the Panchayat??
• Can we ever expect leaders of such stature emerge from our political parties with the present genre of leadership and nominations/consensus being the norm??    

Would you not like to see leaders with such competence and stature emerge (get elected) to lead our nation??

American political system, with most competent and patriotic leaders as role models, motivates Americans to cast away their racial differences and to integrate themselves as more Americans than as black, whites or any other racial lines.

What is the case with Indian political system?? … We Indians are disintegrating more and more in religious/casty/sub-casty, regional/sub-regional/linguistic lines… and on any other fissures/nuances we can find… our politicians, even some pretentious socio-political reformers, are busy driving wedges between our inherent fissures and diversities to build their vote banks or cheap applauds ….

   

No use of blaming them. There is a flaw in our political system which compels/incentivise them to do so. Even if I myself am in politics, with the present system I can not avoid succumbing to those compulsions if I am to survive and prosper in the present Indian politics.

We are heading in the disintegrative path with ever increasing acceleration.

If we have to escape from this trap we have to rectify that flaw. Or we are doomed to disintegration.

I too have a dream… as Martin Loother King had for America…

…. a ‘Great India’ for our future generations to live in peace and prosperity.

I know the impediments in realizing this dream and the means and ways to rectify them… 

We, those who cherish a ‘Great India’ dream, have to stop squabbling on the petty matters and come together and work selflessly to remove those impediments and create conducive condition to happen a ‘Great India’.

With regards

Sudhakaran, Great India Trust.