Do we deserve democracy in this country? It appears that our country has not graduated to the level to have a democratic form of government. We have implemented a highly distorted form of democracy where the freedom to bypass laws and norms of a civilized society is equated with personal liberty. People who get elected are often found to be champions of corruption and they have more of a presonal agenda rather than the desire to serve the country. Often, votes are asked on the basis of caste , colour, sex and religion and sometime it arouses a feeling of sympathy for these countrymen who have been exploited by our political honchos with their carefully crafted oratory .
In same cases whenever they did come with some good acts like enacting of anti smoking legislation, our citizens hardly have any problem in flouting such rules. Somehow, its in our culture, might be to do with our colonial past ,that we dont follow laws unless forced to do so by coercion. It does not mean that we indulge in human right violations as is the case in China but human rights shouldnt become a signal for the mess of corruption and chaos which we have created in this country where hardly any person occupying high office is prosecuted for any offence all in the name of our so called "fundamental rights". Its high time we change our habits or be prepared to suffer in this system till perpetuity.
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