More Chaos in making

As election process is getting it in to the last phase, hung parliament has already become a certainty. Indian democracy is going through the era of confusion quite some time and it’s going to continue further… While the fractured mandate is a clear indicator of a balanced democracy, it’s also aggravating the deeply divided political topography. We all understand accumulation of power is never a solution, but the chaos of multiple power centers is worse. Most of the regional and sectarian political outfits are putting forth their divisive agenda much more aggressive. It’s really disturbing to see the so called national parties trying to catch fish from the troubled waters, just to get the equations right to get their pound of flesh. It’s becoming very important to discover and raise a nationalistic agenda – above regional, sectarian, communal, caste based, considerations.

I have been casually browsing through the manifestos of leading political parties (Congress, BJP and CPM), and unfortunately there is hardly any reason to cheer. “Development and Welfare” – though namesake have featured in every election manifesto’s, has never been considered as the basic building blocks of agenda. Most of our leaders are prisoners of various compulsions (either governed by the “ideological alignment” or the sole motive of “gaining and retaining power”) and the current situation is throwing up hardly an answer. Again it’s a different matter that manifesto is document of no importance, whatsoever. For that matter all the manifestos are cook books of contradictions, which shows the shallow vision of the leading political think thank. I think the only thing, they are good at is poll arithmetic.