State elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh and those for the Municipal Council of Delhi are over in India and results are awaited.
Soon preparations will begin for the state assembly elections in 2023 in Tripura (March), Karnataka (May), Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh (November), and Rajasthan (December). And of course parliamentary elections are due in 2024.
India has 28 states and eight union territories, apart from the hundreds of local bodies like Municipal Corporations, Zila Panchayats, Block Panchayats, Gram Panchayats for which elections are held regularly. The country is perpetually in election mode and the public participate in them enthusiastically.
What our simpleton people do not realise is that they are being taken for a ride. Will a change in the ruling parties or their representatives make any substantial difference in their lives ? Will it reduce or eliminate poverty, hunger, unemployment, inflation, lack of proper healthcare and good education for the masses ? Not at all. It is change in the system which is required for this but no one dares talk of that.
The system of parliamentary elections ( which we blindly borrowed from the British ) further entrenches casteism and communalism in India which are the main feudal forces holding up our progress, for parliamentary elections largely run on caste and communal vote banks. And so it has to be replaced by an alternate system which unleashes our potential, and enables our country to march rapidly towards a high level of industrialisation and modernisation, which alone can give prosperity and a high standard of living to our people.
But no one talks of that not even our so called ‘intellectuals’ and our supposedly ‘free’ media.
It is time that the patriotic thinkers in India realise this, awaken our gullible masses from their slumber, and using their creativity to think and devise an alternative to the present system. Otherwise we will remain very much the mess we are mired in today indefinitely.
