Political Arena

“Move ahead never look back” may be a one philosophy working well in many cases but some time it's better to look back. There are many areas in which a reform with view to make it better is working extremely well but at the same time in many cases such reform is leading a system in very dangerous  situation and it could be easily verified for recently conducted election in U.P. for gram panchayats.

Why ? Yes why ? What was the problem in this election? State election commission has conducted it successfully and it was the dream of Mahatma Gandhi, he advocated panchayati raj as the foundation of India’s political system and current formulation of panchayati raj is based on ideas given by various committees headed by various notable personalities such as,

1. Balwant Rai Mehta : Estd 1957

2. V.T.Krishnammachari : 1960

3. Takhatmal Jain Study Group: 1966

4. Ashok Mehta Committee : 1977

5. G.V.K Rao committee  :1985

6. Dr.L.M.Singhvi Committee:1986

Which was formalized in 1992 by the 73^rd amendment to the Indian constitution. By looking these facts it seems a flawless structure but it's not, it's completely out of the way as dreamed by Mahatma Gandhi, He dreamed for a decentralized Local Self Government for a village by the  people of that village which has no outer influence. Our system failed here , now it has taken a complete centralized form, completely in the influence of big political parties.

On paper our system looks independent and working fair but in reality we know the current tradition of election in India and it has completely polluted our Panchayati Raj system. Money power has turned around  the basic moto of this system, now political partis has taken this system under their sphere. It dosen’t matter what you think about your people, what is your character how deep you understand your village. There is only one factor and that is money, if you have money power, you are supreme with the help of political parties.

That’s why it seems better to get rid of this system and follow the decades old system in which there was no influence of big bulls. It was the time when people of a village selects their Panch with their accord. They were respected person, well accepted person and well acquaint by their people.

Of course there are problems in every system and one always try to make it better but by various reforms we have reached to a very dangerous system.We have to break this Political Arena to fulfill the dream of Mahatma Gandhi. We have to look for the remedy of this system as soon as possible other wise it is going to make a unrecoverable loss.