INDIAN LEGISLATURES-ELECTED DESPOTS

"India is the largest democracy of world", this phrase always echos whenever I listen to some speech given by an Indian leader at international arena. Democracy is system of government in which the power is held directly by the people or their representative, but in recent time I feel that Indian case has been nothing more than a travesty to this definition. Does the power really reside in our hands?? I guess the answer is no. These people once elected become invincible and become nothing more than dictators. These political parties defines themselves with differing ideologies at the time of election but unite to pass any bill which favours politicians , even if the bill make them above law. Recently one of the minister who was asked to undergo mandatory security check at airport refused to do so, just because he was a VIP. Security officials clearly mentioned that they wont allow him to board the plane without the security check as even prime minister has to undergo it if travelling in public airline. Instead of taking a lesson the minister decided to teach one. And what happened he lobbied the political circles and the parliament unanimously passed a law which made all the union ministers and ministers of state to be free of all kind of security checks at airport. Yes parliament passed this law and we thought that they only do walk overs in the parliament. The reality is that they do pass bills and unanimously but only those which benefits politicians and not the public and the bills of public concern like RTI took eight years to get cleared. Then there was a bill which forbade any person who has been charge sheeted in criminal offence to contest in election , result it was rejected by the parliament. Another example of these peoples despotic activity is the presidential election. There  was Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam whom most of indian looked as an inspiration and 80% of the country wanted him to continue but presently he is not even in the foray for the post, why because the oligarchy in UPA and NDA want there woman and man respectively to be at the post as President has the job to call the party for making the government in the forthcoming elections for the lok sabha. Reason given by the parties for not going for Dr. Kalam are far stranger than being justifiable. Left does not want kalam because they are against second term for any president or vice president as they are opposed to continuation of same person in power for long time. Isn't it comical stand for a party which whose Dr. Jyoti Basu was West bengal's chief minister for astonishingly 32 years. Congress wont support Kalam because they want to make history by getting a woman elected for the coveted post for the first time, no matter what the credentials are. As an average Indian I was familiar with the name of Dr. Kalam even before when he became president for the first time because he had contributed a lot to the country through his works in nuclear science. But I had not known the name of Pratibha Patel and  I am sure that even those who had known her name cant look forward towards her as an inspiration as one looks at Dr. Kalam. Since President is so called non political post why cant they make a provision where general public gets to vote for the post. I know that the model will have many flaws but still i feel that something could be worked out which can prevent the embarrassing situation that is at hand.

I don't have the kind of intellect that the framers of constitution had but still i feel that there are few flaws and that has to be got rid off , if India wants to be a democracy not only in name but practise too, but for this to happen people like Dr. B.R Ambedkar, Dr. Rajender Prasad, Vijyalaxmi pandit and Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad etc. will have to take a rebirth .