Indian Democracy: IS IT NATURAL ?

A featured democracy is the basic need to run any big country like ours ‘INDIA’. It is the solution of all the positives, negatives, threats of the survival of its citizens and so the country. Whenever we struck in any situation, we look The Bible or The Gita or The Quran of Democracy, i.e. our Constitution.

Our constitution, “The Constitution of India” or “Bharat ka Sanvidhaan” is considered to be the second longest constitution of the world, which comprises of the best features of literally all the major democracies. It constitutes of 395 Articles in 22 Parts and 8 Schedules which give us all the features from Fundamental Rights to the DPSP’s, from the Citizens Duty to the working of Institutions. These features are making our democracy as the biggest democracy of the world.

But…

It’s an old saying that we must learn from experience of others. But actually we are missing one thing, “We must learn from the experience of ALIKE others”. We just cannot avoid taking sweets seeing a death of diabetic person after having some. Similarly we cannot avoid driving on the road seeing an accident of drunken person. Also there could be a thing which is good for someone while it threatens the other.

Similar is our Constitution, we decided to learn from the experience of others. But during this process we might missed one major thing, “ALIKE OTHERS”. For some basic knowledge, the countries from which we had adopted the major features are: USA, Canada, SA, Britain, USSR, Japan, Germany, Australia, France & Ireland. None of these are even geographically alike India; cultural, social, economic alikeness is hence a long talk.  

Democracy is itself subjected as “evolver” in nature. Like in USA, after its freedom it had gone through long civil wars, the French Revolution is considered to be the most bloody during its evolution. Hence, a democracy is not anything that could be written in 3 years. It needs hundreds of years to evolve.

Now, come the main concept: Indian democracy is not an evolved democracy, it’s a set democracy. Since the democracy is not evolved, so the problems in democracy will evolve.

But…

All this is done for a big reason, due to its colonial history; we as a country ‘India’ cannot afford to give that ‘evolving duration’ of over 100-200 years to this democracy. As we were among one who got its freedom at very last. And in order to survive internationally, in the competition of growth and development. This could be the only solution available to us, which was best utilised by our framers of the constitution.

But due to any of the reason we cannot deny the evolving tendency for the problem to come up. And with this future problems in view, our framers left us with one of the very important word “AMENDMENT”. This tells us that in spite of set democracy, our democracy is not ‘rigid’. With the evolving society and its problems, we can transform it for the betterment of the nation.

Hence, as a responsible thinker, responsible intellectual, responsible bureaucrat, responsible politician and most importantly as a responsible citizen, we must consider it as a gift from our nation builders, and further we must look to contribute in this ever-last nation building process.

These features of adoption and transformation of our holy book “The Constitution of India” makes it not even the longest, not even the biggest but the BEST democracy of the world.

Now, IT’S UP TO US.