Democracy gives a wider scope for decision-making, though there are constitutional
parameters. On the grounds of feasibility, people cannot participate in this process.
They gain significance only during the elections.
A picture showing the voters inside the
election-booth, in India.
A picture showing the voters inside the
election-booth, in the USA
As the citizen's significance appears only while electing the government, during the tenure, the government finds no moral restrictions or impediments in its way towards putting a Bill into force.
However, people raise a hue and cry, when the Bill appears to strangle their purchasing-power, or lacerates their feelings.
For instance, the hike in the price of the petrol or gas.The decision-making process is confined to the body of representatives who form the government.
Most decisions taken in the past have been hasty. Democracy is the ground created for the people's freedom and development but it is the political enthusiasm that has its say.
The seed of ignorance sown, will certainly emerge into a tree that would bear the fruits of disaster which is inevitable. What a beautiful thing it is - that which is well thought of, but it is the blind enthusiasm that surpasses it. Many a time, the blemishes remain unnoticed for a long time. The harmful consequences come into light but the root cause is ignored by the sufferers.
During the policy-making process, it is quite difficult for the legislators to remain free from political enthusiasm and prejudice, that distort the applicability of the law, in a particular context. Here, by 'context' it is meant that a law finds relevance to the territory where it is implemented. Again, the relevance differs in accordance to the location and the nature of the problem that prevails there.
Hope, better days come which would put in place, strong machinery that would protect and safeguard the spirit of the nation.
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