Democracy
versus Meritocracy.
BJP (as Congress under Indira) believes in strong Nation and not the strong Citizen. It believes in asking Sacrifices from Citizen. Like any Rightist organization it has “Strong Man” syndrome.
But we must be careful about this concept as we have seen what damage a strong leader (Like Indira Gandhi) can inflict on the nation and the party. Her style destroyed nation’s relations with neighbors and completely destroyed the party organization (for which congress is paying price even today). In fact we should do a impartial comparison of progress of India during the regime of a strong leader with complete majority and during a coalition government. My feeling says we (including constitutional institutions) were/are better off under coalition governments. An example is quality and stature of Presidents when ruling party had/has complete majority ( Gyni Jail Singh , Pratibha Patil, Kovind etc) and when it needed opposition support (APJ Abdul Kalam, Pranab Mukharjee and so on) to choose/elect President.
Here under the concept of strong nation, everything for better future. Nothing is for today. Tomorrow “Bullet train” will come, today bear with “Late Train” (Punctuality of trains has gone down recently). For every adverse situation, it has logic to rationalize. High Petrol Price (due to taxes), and your asking for reduction in taxes is termed anti development. Now a days even some whatsapp messages are showing how your monthly budget is lower inspite of high petrol price (due to lower prices of sugar, pulses etc) as compared to 2014.
What we saw in Kathua, it seems though BJP login Name is “Vikas”, its Login Password is “Hindutva”. The point I wish to make (earlier also somewhere else mentioned), that we want all Hindus to be united but are not able to accept reservations etc. Due to our class’s vested interest, we vehemently oppose SC/ST reservation saying it is lowering quality (in case of medical education, it can endanger life of patient), but keep mum on NRI and Management quota. Today NEET score of admitted SC/ST student is far better than NRI and Management quota. Students. It may be remembered the concept of “Meritocracy” ie rule by elite people on non elite people is against concept of “Democracy” which say rule by self (based on representative system) for betterment of society.
My central point is, we, as nation and democratic society are better off when there is interdependence among different stake holder than when one man or party is capable of taking decision without taking into confidence different views.
So to conclude (nothing against present ruler/party but it applies to Congress under Indira also) we (more so BJP/ RSS), must critically evaluate, merit of having “Strong Leader”, demanding “Sacrifice from Citizen” and a society based on “Merit”. Think whether this model is suitable for democracy which says it is “By the people for the people”.
BJP (as Congress under Indira) believes in strong Nation and not the strong Citizen. It believes in asking Sacrifices from Citizen. Like any Rightist organization it has “Strong Man” syndrome.
But we must be careful about this concept as we have seen what damage a strong leader (Like Indira Gandhi) can inflict on the nation and the party. Her style destroyed nation’s relations with neighbors and completely destroyed the party organization (for which congress is paying price even today). In fact we should do a impartial comparison of progress of India during the regime of a strong leader with complete majority and during a coalition government. My feeling says we (including constitutional institutions) were/are better off under coalition governments. An example is quality and stature of Presidents when ruling party had/has complete majority ( Gyni Jail Singh , Pratibha Patil, Kovind etc) and when it needed opposition support (APJ Abdul Kalam, Pranab Mukharjee and so on) to choose/elect President.
Here under the concept of strong nation, everything for better future. Nothing is for today. Tomorrow “Bullet train” will come, today bear with “Late Train” (Punctuality of trains has gone down recently). For every adverse situation, it has logic to rationalize. High Petrol Price (due to taxes), and your asking for reduction in taxes is termed anti development. Now a days even some whatsapp messages are showing how your monthly budget is lower inspite of high petrol price (due to lower prices of sugar, pulses etc) as compared to 2014.
What we saw in Kathua, it seems though BJP login Name is “Vikas”, its Login Password is “Hindutva”. The point I wish to make (earlier also somewhere else mentioned), that we want all Hindus to be united but are not able to accept reservations etc. Due to our class’s vested interest, we vehemently oppose SC/ST reservation saying it is lowering quality (in case of medical education, it can endanger life of patient), but keep mum on NRI and Management quota. Today NEET score of admitted SC/ST student is far better than NRI and Management quota. Students. It may be remembered the concept of “Meritocracy” ie rule by elite people on non elite people is against concept of “Democracy” which say rule by self (based on representative system) for betterment of society.
My central point is, we, as nation and democratic society are better off when there is interdependence among different stake holder than when one man or party is capable of taking decision without taking into confidence different views.
So to conclude (nothing against present ruler/party but it applies to Congress under Indira also) we (more so BJP/ RSS), must critically evaluate, merit of having “Strong Leader”, demanding “Sacrifice from Citizen” and a society based on “Merit”. Think whether this model is suitable for democracy which says it is “By the people for the people”.
A great beginning documenting thought process meticulously. I am sure that readers would find it stirring to evolve better for a common cause... Wishing all the best
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