Modern Social scientists define
Democracy as a mode of powersharing.
The earlier defintion “of ,by and
for the people” seems to be lost in hard
realties ,democracies across the world face today.Truly the order of today is
powersharing.The four pillars unbashedly share it.The legislature does it in
the name of representation.The Excutive and Media do it in name of “for the
people” and “building opinion”. Judicairy ofcourse harps on interpetation of
laws for the mass.
Core of modern democracy ,lies in
checks and balances.One wing keeping a watch on the other.Conflicts arise when power sharing equlibriam is questioned or new
situations develop.The latter arise due to liberalisation,technology and developments
not well difned in Constitutions. When the conflicts arise ,Judiciary acts as interpertor of the
Constitution.It is important to note that most of the conflicts have power sharing
as core.
It has never been a natural human quality to share what one holds.The same
applies here too.These conflicts become acute if the parties involved is one of
the four pillars. Established norms when challenged have never easy solutions
espcially when the power is infested with one of the parties involved.
The situation become complex when it
involves two or more pillars of democracy.Recent past has shown that in many
cases , however uncomfortable the status quo prevails. The complexity of the
conflict becomes more acute if some power is to be shredded to lower level in
hiearchy of democratic pyramid.
A new trend has started.Smaller democracies
have just started using public voting as
a method of resolving.However the fragmentation of society in these small
countries is toatlly based upon ethencity,cultural ,linguastic or religion and
not on economic lines.
The four pillars Indian democracy are still
not mature enough to read this vibrant signal emnating out of Globalisation and
liberalisation.Corruption, undue previliges
enjoyed , incompetency in these
four estates will not die out on their own. There need to be a new
factor and that is vibrant,demading,ethical but innovative.The last quality
needed to remove cynism from masses.The most important factor should be
ofcourse being from within the system.It is an established fact now that system
can be improved better by remaining a part of system rather and pushing the
limits than being an outsider and trying to pull.
The rising of this Fifth estate has
started nearly everywhere across the
world where class divide cuts across ethnic,religious and lingo lines. Arab
,South America ,Eastern Europe are examples.India has seen it’s own share ,
Nirbhya,Anna e.t.c, even the large following of BABAs actually demonstrates
that this fifth estate wants to assert.
Arvind Kejriwal realized the factors
and took a bold step in forming a political party. AAP’s leaders have been
smart enough to realize and have experimented well.”बतख ” like all will watch closely on their “holier than thou”
and ‘whiter than cow” syndrome…
The aftermath will follow…
Of course to keep out violence
and vandalism will be the biggest
challenge.
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