As perceived by Mr. Jaswant Singh, former minister expressed at Al Jazeera
March 31, 2011(Scooped news)
India, the former Minister of Finance said, "dynasticism" played a leading role in the culture of political corruption.
Corruption is crippling India? At first glance, such a question seems absurd. After all, India is the foundation of democracy, since before 1947, and its economy was a new world economic crisis, when almost everyone else faltered.
But a combination of factors that have spread over time gave rise to serious concern about the threat posed by corruption of many things in the Indian state.
Of course, India is facing a "youth quake" in the Moorish style, in response to the corruption scandal currently affecting the government of the Congress Party, is unlikely to do so.
India’s economy continues its strong growth from 8.5 to 9 percent of annual GDP, a figure that is the envy of many. contested elections are routine.
However, the differences and discontent to grow, in part to fuel inflation, which recently exceeded 20 percent year over year. In fact, the rate of wholesale inflation is now more than 9 percent.
output growth began to decline, and the budget deficit has increased by more than 5 percent of GDP, severely stress the economy. Consequently, foreign direct investment has declined and increasing interest rates.
Almost a third of the country’s administrative districts are affected by the extreme left "the Maoist violence. Apart from the vicinity of India, with Pakistan on the issue, more concerned than ever.
Concern for the future "democratic"
But above all these evils, corruption, paralyzing all state agencies and to obtain a high office.
During the session of the Parliament of India in winter in recent years, the opposition (I am a leader of its largest party, the BJP) has demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (CPC) to investigate a public scandal endless. The government, however, not at this moment, and the opposition refused to budge.
The result was a paralysis: the whole assembly, Parliament passed a single law, state or other business decisions. This unprecedented impasse has led some to doubt that predicts worse, become a political impasse.
During the impasse, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returns from a meeting of G-20, expressing concern about "the future of parliamentary democracy in India."
Singh terrible statement was probably born in a final plenary session of Parliament unhappy. But it was also the result of a scandalous lack of Department of Telecommunications of India, where about 30 billion have been diverted by corruption and bad games before, and many other cases of corruption in the state.
Application of the resistance of a joint parliamentary committee to investigate the true leadership requires the government corruption. Unfortunately not to come. But what the government has rejected the latest parliamentary session has been recognized in the present, due to growing public pressure.
This delay was both pathetic and wrong. At the heart of any functioning democratic order must be a solid basic rule of law. When this option is not present problems, political and economic bridge the gap.
This is the current situation in India, as many officials show deliberate indifference to the letter of the law and flaunt their disregard of his mind. Their corruption is debilitating, not only the Parliament of India, but its democracy.
The plague of ‘dynasticism’
Maybe that corruption has taken over the system in India to restore the complaints were so slow. Indians also seem to lose respect for each other, leaving the feeling of brotherhood that characterized the early years of struggle.
But air quality in solidarity with his people, not based on parliamentary democracy.
It ‘s also a growing sense that India has forgotten how to keep the dissidents, that opposing views are considered irrelevant. Consequently, the Government considers disagreements "bad", a challenge that the rebels were crushed.
The tone, tenor and content of language, which the government deals with rituals of the opposition and vice versa, was condescending rejection, drain the spirit of parliamentary democracy. Politeness and accommodation of opposing views are treated as signs of weakness.
In such an atmosphere of contempt for the opposition, corruption is increasing and Festersen. It is corruption, coupled with the loss of responsibility that undermines the checks and balances of democracy in India.
Consequently, the configurations that remains is an empty shell left decision-making process, where corruption is the only real debate on the government.
The "dynasticism" had such power over the majority of Indian politics plays an important role in promoting corruption.
After all, a legacy of political power is the antithesis of democracy, because the responsibility is not part of it. And when the responsibility is absent, both in cunning and feels aggrieved must resort to fraudulent means to make known their concerns.
Conservation of hereditary privileges inevitably means that the rules and processes of government, distort, if not entirely subordinate to dynastic concerns. Today everyone in India to pay the price.