I have been thinking long and hard for the past few days about Indian politics, politicians and political policies. Why are we not moving forward as fast as many other countries? Well, the answer to it is ‘Politics’.
Primarily, if a minimum educational qualification of 10th standard or +2 was set, many ministers, MPs and MLAs would not even qualify. When people have to pass certain qualification tests like the PSC to get government jobs, the people who run the government need not even pass a test. Maybe, people would say elections are a big test. But when people are asked to choose from bad and worse, their choice would still be horribly bad.
In some states, candidates contest elections from jail and some of them actually win the election. When people actually hesitate being linked to someone who has been to jail, how can they choose such a person as their representative? A person who has been to jail is denied IPS/IAS selection or registration in the BAR council. But how ridiculous is it that a person who has been to jail is allowed to contest elections.
Politicians want to rule the state or nation even when they are well past their prime at the age of 70+. Some of them can’t even walk properly owing to knee problems, but they still want to contest elections and campaign in wheel chairs. The world is moving fast and such people are left far behind.
I was thinking very deeply when I started getting the facts. Almost 99% of qualified well educated people look for jobs straight after our education is over. We never bother about the country or the people in it. Those people who are left behind with no jobs, due to lack of education or criminal background, see politics as a way of income.
Even if the qualified people join politics, they do so at an age of around 25-40 but are stopped from progressing because there are many people still at high places who are waiting for years for their chance in the party. Educated people feel suffocated because they are neither having a job nor are they involved in the actual politics. So many quit and this leaves our country at the hands of second rate politicians.
The only solution for this dilemma is the emergence of educated youth in politics. It may be as a fourth front or as a powerful tidal wave which sweeps across India and wipes out the corruption and negligence in Indian Politics.
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4 comments so far
varun u shuld remember one thing…now we are havin a prime minister who is well educated…our new home minister is a cambridge alumni in dhoti..there are many MBA graduates nd other well educated ppl as MP’s and MLA’s…
even our first prime minister panditji was well educated..and according to me the first state ministry of kerala comprised of ppl experts in each field.mundasseri master as education minister,justice krishna ayyer(law) nd all
and of course i admit the fact that der r sme gunda’s nd illiterates.but the rit to change them is entrusted on us the citizens…nd all those illiterate gunda ppl were elected frm places were there are more illiterates..that is illiteracy is the main problem not only the political system..
at this time i wuld like to mention the assembly results which came 2da.. the opposition leader of chattisgarh mr.mahendra karama who is a gunda lost the election. the results today shows that ppl vote for development and note for cheap nasty politics..sheela dixit of delhi nd shivraj singh chauhan of MP did that nd they are back in power
December 8th, 2008i admit that there are some good and well educated candidates and i am not talking abt their dressing.
the right to change them is entrusted upon us, but wen v r asked to choose from a rotten orange and a rotten tomato, watever we choose is rotten.
there are some goondas, yes.st but one rotten apple can spoil the entire lot of apples.
i bet 95% of ministers etc can b booked under illegal possesion of arms, or black money. when a good person sees someone stealing public wealth, how long can he stay aloof. he too will b drawn towards it.
we need to weed out the good from the bad and that too before it is not too late
i also talked about their age. they are too slow on their feet to meet the demand of present times
December 8th, 2008I am not sure if I am with you on bringing educated people into the system…but I am all in for the bringing in the qualified people into the system….
The fact that illiterates are welcomed into the politics is cuz we do not want to stop qualified people from entering politics due to this….
Our railway minister is a subject of case study at IIMs for his management skills and turning the losses bearing railways into profit….I am not sure if he will pass any kinda exams!
December 13th, 2008@ Anand
nice point u make there… qualified people shud b let in while the others shud b kicked out
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