Democracy and the people

Government of the people, by the people, for the people. This is the most common and famous definition of the democracy. Majority of the world's countries are following the pattern of democracy today of which the Topmost are the US, The Republic of India, and many others. And all these countries feel proud when called as a democratic.

But what exactly the democratic pattern of government is? Is it the same like that kings and rulers use to rule over there people, or is it totally in the hands of people, to decide what to implement in state means totally handled by its citizens or is it something else? Apparently democracy is in contrary to the kings rule on its citizen where king has all the rights to decide what is good and what is wrong for its people, and it is in a way similar to the public's rule, where general people will decide what to implement or what not to, general mass will decide what is best in their interest.

But when we look into the practical democracy, them picture is very different than what is supposed to be. In most of the democratic countries, pattern of government is based on voting of few popular politicians for the post of rulers, who will then rule over the whole country for the specific decided period. The overall central government will be of a party who is having maximum number of seats in the parliament or House of Commons.

Now after the election, the party who got majority will form the government. Now this majority will decide the future of the whole country for the next specified period, without any major threat from opposition parties as this party is in majority. So here in this case, general public is only in picture at the time of voting and nowhere after the election. So if now government wants to implement some rulings which is in benefit of ruling party but against the future of country, then no one can stop them because they have majority in the parliament.

This is the practical face of democracy. Let’s have a look at few examples. India, the world's largest democracy, its government has decided to sign the nuclear treaty with its key supporter in international platform, the US. It is clearly visible from all the angles that this treaty is not in favor of nation, and if signed, India will loose its basic right to do nuclear test, then also the so called government, which is the ruling party, has not bothered to sign the treaty because it’s in the party's benefit. General masses cried over this, taken out processions, opposition parties stand against the ruling party, but nothing happened. Ruling party is very strong on its position and doesn’t bother about other people like the ruler who rules over his kingdom. Is this the democracy? Where is the common person in this scene? How this government be termed as Government of the People? All these queries are an open query of democracy, which is not yet solved and that’s why imperialist countries are promoting it.

Let’s take another example from the United States itself. President George W. Bush was planning to send troops to Iraq. His government got rattled with huge number of protests, public debates and his relative public ratings falls considerably. But nothing happened to his position because democratic platform has given him permission for five years to whatever his ruling party wants to do. This is the real face of democracy.

As we have seen live examples of the future of democratic platform of ruling and it seems to be somewhat failure, we have to find the new system of ruling which will be compatible with every era. Democracy is using the common people’s right of voting for electing politicians who are not bothered about the citizen itself and ignored every voice and cry of these common people.

Now this is an open query to all the readers to find out what will be the suitable system for the political system of the world, either existing or new, but better than the current system, after all, world is working on the pattern on Research and Development, so we need to do some modifications on our current system so as to get perfect justice.