India is the greatest example of the multilateral,
pluralistic and inclusive democracy, the country has the profound record of
coexistence and sustainability, and all of the religions, castes, race,
community exist peacefully from thousands of years, more importantly they keep
on coexisting even after the independence, although the Indians were hugely
divided during initial days of independence. The biggest strength of this
country is its democracy, which cherish multi-party system, which has been
helping in taking care of every single section of the society, and their
representative raises their concerns in the parliament and brings it in the
notice of the administration and the country.
But the nation is facing a risk of an unprecedented deficit
of democracy, the opposition is almost irresponsible and directionless, most of
them are fighting to save their family dynasty, regional parties are corrupt
and their way of politics still in 80’s, they failed miserably in evolving
themselves, their strategy was nowhere in the synchronization with the current
issues which country is facing, they
were asking people to vote them for the sake of just to unseat the seating
prime minister. The opposition has lost it’s connect as well as the credibility
among the people of the nation, they denounce them in one voice across the
country,
Opposition is one of the important constituent in the
democracy, they force the government to rethink before making the decision,
which could be relating to the welfare or the important legislations, but they
are now just cornered by the landslide victory of the government in the 2019
general election. We have now the weakest opposition in last three decades,
they are not eligible for even leader of opposition in the parliament, they
have no enough representation in neither Lok Sabha (council of people) nor
Rajya Sabha (council of States), they are about to lose the majority in upper
house in the coming year, so the issue which is devastating is their presence
in the parliament, which would be just ceremonial, that’s the end of
multi-party system in parliament and inclusive democracy. The country is
already on the verge of serious trap of majoritarian democracy, which could
prove to be threat to the multilateralism and pluralism. Moreover, the whole
credit for the upcoming risk and threat goes to the opposition of this country,
which failed in every aspects, and this is frustrating.
I do not disrespect or criticize the mandate given by the
people to the government led by PM Modi, it is also true that the mandate they
got, actually, they deserved, and some of the welfare schemes were
extraordinary. They were amazing in terms of law & order and national
security, but still there were lots of gap and shortcoming, with that the
opposition could have perform better, at least they could have in the better
position in the parliament.
The opposition must come out of family dynasty, politics of
appeasement, and school of poor and old thought, they got to be aligned with
fast evolving society, internet, and analytics, their further failure will only
help India to go closer to One Party Rule, which is not healthy for the
progressive democracy and economy. They must bounce back for the sake of the
1.3 billion of people for betterment and prosperity.
