Today, democracy means voting once every five years and then pleading before the same set of people who you have voted for the next five years. This is not democracy. We are taught in our childhood, India is a democracy, India is a democracy, India is a democracy. But when you ask, why is India a democracy, then it is said, because India has election. Election is not democracy. Election is just the beginning of democracy. What democracy means is that after election, people should be able to participate in decision-making over the next five years and the decisions thus taken should be implemented by politicians and bureaucrats. That is democracy. - Arvind Kejriwal, former civil servant and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership, considered Asias Nobel Prize.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 05:36:57 +0000
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