Democracy is Hampering India's Progress

I think democracy is not hampering us because But India, as a democratic country, has progressed in many aspects. It has archived self-sufficiency in food grains as a result of the green revolution. People vote for change whenever a government fails to come up to the expectations of the people. India has been a successful democratic country only because the people are law-abiding, self-disciplined and have the sense of social and moral responsibilities.

For a democracy to be fully successful, the electorate should be literate and politically conscious. They should be fully aware of their rights and privileges. The illiterate masses of India should be given education so that they can sensibly vote for the right leaders. The USA, Britain, Germany and Japan are successful democratic countries and gave progressed in every sphere because the masses are literate.

There should be quality in every sphere of life. The politicians should also respect the true spirit of democracy. They should refrain from corruption caste and communal politics. The citizens should elect leaders with good moral values and integrity. People should be guided to choose their representatives. They should not be influenced by anyone in this respect. Individuals should learn tolerance and compromise and understand that freedom in not unbridled but dependent on not harming another individual's well being.

Democracy demands from the common man a certain level of ability and character, like rational conducts, an intelligent understanding of public affair, independent justice and unselfish devotion to public interest. People should not allow communalism, separatism, casteism, terrorism, etc to raise their heads. They are a threat to democracy. The government, the NGOs and the people together should work collectively for the economic development of the nation. Changes should come through peaceful, democratic and constitutional means. The talented youth of today should be politically educated so that they can become effective leaders of tomorrow.

Democracy is a system, which has nothing to do with economic progress, because economic progress is another system. Of course, politics and economy go hand in hand. If you say politician who make the democracy and did not follow the principles then regression is the ultimate end-product.

The reality is something different, which is not visible to anybody. People think that democracy implies government of the people, for the people and by the people. So thinks that it implies government of the politician, for the politician and by the politician. But both the categories of people are wrong. Really it is of the business magnets, for the business magnets and by the business magnets.

Who works like the director of film. We always see the hero, heroine and villain of a picture but we do not the real master the director. Similarly, the business magnets are the directors of democracy and politician whatever, may be the post, are the worker to them. Thus, democracy fails to bring the progress as you wants.

Mainly democracy is the form of government where the people of the country has the main power but in a country like India this power is hampered by the incapable rulers. Still free and fair elections are a dream of us. Overall I would say that when hazards like violence, corruptions could be over rooted from the recent definition of democracy then only a country could be called an actual democratic one.

We are making democracy to hamper the progress of India. First of all voters should know the value of their vote by not taking money, liquor etc, and those who are elected as representatives should feel the responsibility on their shoulders.

Politicians are targeting uneducated people who can be easily attracted to money. To avoid this situation literacy percentage has to improve, only education give you the knowledge to vote for right candidate and poling percentage has to be above 95% which gives best candidate election as our representative.

Democracy is hampering the growth of India. Democracy leads to vote-bank politics and vendetta politics. Sometimes the ruling party decisions which aide to growth get delayed or never get implemented.

For example, Goods and Service-tax bill and Land bill, if implemented can boost our GDP, but their implementation is delayed because the opposition is creating a parliament log-jam.

I don't think that India democracy is hampering the India's progress. Because we all want to have a right to say our point of view. We live what we want and it does when we belong in the democratic country. Yes, I agree that many of people in India are take this in a wrong way but still there are some people who spend their life with honestly. And we have a right to do against the poor people whose harm our society but first of all we correct ourselves because most of the do many things which are not right. So it is not correct that we blame our democracy system.

Hello everyone.

In my sense, democracy is good only when we take it seriously and don't try to use it in our way or for our purpose. Democracy provides freedom for doing tasks and think in own way. But we misuse this freedom. Which affect our Indian economy as well.

Well democracy is not just of the people, it is by the people also. So being the citizens of this country, we all have our roles to play for the development of this country. We all know our rights and we protest for that but no one knows his/her fundamental duties. The system is made by us and to make it ideal one, only we have to correct it. The judicial system of the country needs to be strengthened. There should be strict laws against criminals. Cases must not hang for years and fast track judgement system should be introduced. That will surely curb corruption and crimes in India.

The idea that few hundreds of people can represent the interests of hundred crore people is a naive imagination.

If you can't trust people governing themselves, how can you trust them giving power to some other person who pays no price for being wrong? Power is a primitive idea of well-being. Good politician or a bad politician, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Good govt or bad govt, govt makes people's lives difficult to live.

The governance of modern and evolved society is carried out by the market economy and selfish, profit-motive and innovative entrepreneurs. Not by primitive ideas like political power.

Hello everyone!

I'm just mentioning what I feel needs to be done.

1. First and foremost step is to impart education to all, be it literary or vocational so that employment is possible, people become able to at least meet their necessities.

2. Alleviation of poverty thus would alleviate the need to sell their votes n the spread of moral education will alleviate the greed due to which people sell their votes. As they will work for a greater greed - for their long lasting welfare.

Therefore no problems at all. All we need to do is to spread education. Both moral in literary/vocational. Rest all edu. Will do and of curse. Its not democracy which is hampering our progress, it's lack of education, it's poverty, it's greed, it's our inability to foresee inability to think of even our own benefits wisely.

Thank you !