Is politics hampering reform process
in India?
It looks
like current winter parliament session will also be wiped out due to latest
controversies related to congress high commands misconduct. The question is,
are our parliamentarians across party lines serious about their basic job of
passing legislature, making laws and running parliament for benefit of people
of this country. Instead, they use floor of parliament to play their dirty
politics. GST, land reforms and numerous other important bills are stuck in the
parliament for a prolonged period now. And, the credit goes to two of our major
political parties. With BJP in power, Congress has been opposing it and when
Congress was in power in Delhi, BJP opposed it.
The great
game of politics goes on. Differences are bound to occur on issues but they can
be resolved in a logical manner. Our politicians
have converted the well of Parliament into an arena of wrestling and what is astonishing
is that they are getting paid for that. A question at this point: can common
people of this country even think of getting salaries without work? Crores of
Rupees from taxpayers pocket is getting wasted for every unproductive day in parliament.
Is Politics is getting bigger than our country’s national Interests, is a
question we all need to sit and ponder about.
A peep into China
Take a look
at our neighbouring country,, China, which had a GDP like India’s up to 1980s.
Despite their communist political system, they have made their progress due to
their political leaderships’ decision making ability at appropriate times. As
of today, China has a huge first mover advantage over India in the global economy,
and India as a nation is many years of progress behind as compared to China.
The kind of infrastructure they have built, the kind of trade surplus they
have, can India even think of reaching any way close to that level? That too
with this kind of politics that’s up for display in our country?
Solution to the policy paralysis
It is, I
believe, up to our great Indian leaders to cook up a solution. The need of the
hour is to restructure our old parliamentary system. If politicians want to
protest they can very well do it on other platforms, online, Jantar Mantar, but
definitely not inside parliament. With
due respect to our parliamentarians it is the taxpayers money which is at stake
and more than that countries future is at stake! Can India as a nation afford
to lose a Golden chance to become an economic powerhouse only due to selfish
politics that we have in our country? I leave that to our nation and its great
citizens to mull over.
-Shreyas Tamboli
Student, INBM,
INLEAD, October 2015
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