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BUDDHA ACADEMY TIKAMGARH (MP) || ☺ || CPCT_Admission_Open

created May 23rd 2019, 06:36 by VivekSen1328209


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Democracy in India is evolving. It has not yet matured. It is buffeted by elements, which are inconsistent with what it stands for. A fair electoral process is just the first step in realising democratic values. It occasionally throws up a culture of power, which threatens the fundamentals of our constitutional imperatives.
 
An absolute majority in favour of a political party has the tendency to threaten democratic values. We are essentially a mai-baap country and easily accept the trappings of patronage. A hierarchical societal structure caters to this. For thousands of years, we have not been able to empower Dalits and the marginalised vis-a-vis the dominant Brahminical culture. Absolute majorities tend to exploit this cultural milieu.
 
This dominance also seeks a supplicant bureaucratic culture through patronage. After Independence, the elite ICS cadre was not subjected to the pressures of politics. With the expansion of education and rising aspirations within caste-ridden communities, the nature of bureaucracy was being transformed with the political empowerment of caste based agglomerations. After Mandal, such pressures became far more urgent and telling. Those in the bureaucracy belonging to a particular caste and community would cater to their respective interests and depend on political patronage in doing so. There was an element of quid pro quo since political patronage was used to advance the prospects of interest groups for electoral success. Mayawati would largely cater to the interests of Dalits and the Samajwadi Party to the interests of Yadavs. The present dispensation in Uttar Pradesh caters to the Hindutva agenda, again for electoral gain and seeks the obedience of the bureaucracy for that purpose. The ones in the bureaucracy, who are ready to oblige are noticed and empowered. They willingly offer obedience even if, in the process, constitutional values are jettisoned survival within the system becomes an end in itself. The dominance of an absolute majority, therefore, weakens constitutional values. In the long-term, liberal constitutional values are sacrificed at the altar of vested interests and political expediency.
 
 

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