2011-07-27

People Shall Never Govern

People shall never govern
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

Democracy had been defined as a government of the people, by the people and for the people and when some countries had been writing their constitutions, they had been telling their people that they are establishing a democracy there and from that date the people shall govern the country, the people in the government shall be from the side of the people and they shall be committed to work for the welfare of the people. But if we go deep and people of all the countries who are living in democracies, start having an introspection, they shall come to the conclusion that the definition of democracy is just a paper transaction and no country could adopt this definition or concept.

We know that in all the democracies a set of people have joined the field of politics and they have joined this field taking it a profession, trade, calling and employment and they are not interested in serving the people through whom they are sent to the houses. They invest huge amounts in elections and they invest these amounts just to have profits and therefore, each one contesting elections wants that he should get a place in government and should not remain just an MLA or MP. If ministry could not be allotted due to other contestants, he would like that he should be appointed a member or chairman of some organization having financial transactions so that he too get an opportunity to collect money and compensate himself. The people who remain only MLAs and MPs often found cursing their luck and next time they would not contest election.
We have noted that the people who are in the field of politics are not common people nor they have got any connection with the people. They are a class in themselves and we have found in countries like India where these people could acquire power and once they were in they could establish here family rule, party dictatorship and then individual autocracy. If we read news papers and if we have investigations of all the development works and all the deals at national or international level, we shall find that they people signing or writing these documents had been indulging in scams, scandals, muddles, taking commissions, selling contracts, jobs, quotas, licences, etc. etc. and we have been told that millions had been smuggled to other countries and are being kept in secret bank accounts and most of the transactions had been made through hawala agencies. So such people are not interested in the welfare of the people with whose votes they have been elected. We have noted that only common people cast their votes and rich and powerful people would not like to vote standing in lines alongwith poor and weak people. So the people in government are elected by the people, but they never work for the welfare of the people. On the other hand these people work for the rich and powerful and that is the reason, we should not call such governments as governments of the people, these are actually governments of the rich and the powerful and therefore, rich and powerful people are growing more rich and more powerful and it is on record that the weak and poor people in each democracy in the world are being reduced to more weakness and to more poverty through prices which are raised so that the rich and powerful who are conrolling the trade could turn more rich.We must take the example of India where democracy had been established on 26th January, 1950 and in spite of this lapse of 60 years in democracy, the people are still illiterate, unemployed, houseless, beggars, living in mud houses, living in huts where no latrine and bath rooms are provided and when they utilize open space, the people coming from abroad call India an open latrine, a country of beggars and a country of poor people. When India is a rich country and it had been called a golden sparrow, it should have turned a rich country because it has got mountains, rivers, minerals, coals, irons, gases, petroleum and jungles which are the minimum requirements for proper development. Actually the people of India could not establish a true democracy, they could not attain prosperity because of unfaithful individuals who had been occupying the seats of power. So people like in India shall be attaining democracy and they shall require another century for this purpose. The present sets of people in politics would not allow that a true democracy could be established in India. Similar is the position and situation in other countries which are calling themselves as advanced countries.
So we can say with authority that none of the countries in the world could establish true democracy and all are misleading the people. In all the countries there are people who are illiterate, who are unemployed, who are houseless, who are poor, who are beggars, who live on charity from the government side and like that and such people cannot be called citizens of a democracy.
People living in he modern democracies know that when these politicians are approaching them for votes, they behave like beggars and when they are installed in chairs, the start behaving like rajas, maharajas, monarchs and the imperialists and then the people who are declared in constitutions as masters of the country are condemned as slaves and these people in chairs are not available to the people. The administration goes as had been established during the days of slavery and therefore, the name of democracy remains in the constitutions only and it is never in operation.

People had been fighting for establishing democracies in their countries, but still they know that the people in power are not from amongst them nor they are committed to work for the welfare of the people. Till sense and spirit of ruling the people remains in the minds of the people in the chair, they would never allow the people to establish real democracy and the people shall never gain the position of masters in their own country. They would never get a chair to sit while waiting at a public office. If we have an eye on the people visiting government offices in India, a man with bear eyes shall say that the people are being treated as slaves and they are not masters of this country. If the present state of affairs goes on, we must accept that real democracy would never be established in any of the country. Establishing governments through votes never means that it is a democracy. Democracy means something more and the people in chairs would not share those rights with the people of the country.

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