Tamilnadu State Election Outcome: May 2006
This leads me to believe that self -governance is down right fraud. The royal families of yester years and the foreign rule had a slot of better governing principles! Yes, the family continuum is daunting and devastating. Indian politics is basically holding to or clinging on to the mantle of power by hook or crook. The redeeming factor is that: India today has the finest Prime Minister and the best President with impeccable track record. I am sure their personal example will turn a new trend and have a positive dent in the progress of our nation. Majority of the so called native politicians, who head the States as Chief Ministers are basically self- centred; taking the vast majority of poor people for a ride; and in the political process and race enhance the number of crooks, con men, and frauds, who in the garb of administrators rule the State with impunity, fine tuning corrupt practices in and at every stage of the administration. The IAS and IFS who rule the roost are not committed to the cause of governance, niether in leadership nor responsibility. They, however, tend to flow in the least path of resistance and take refuge in the bureaucratic mangle and tangle of laws written by the British rulers,( which continues to be in vogue for almost 3 centuries) with the sole objective of amassing wealth for their siblings, and family members through benami transactions. We indeed are truly in a mess; but as all things come to an end let us hope that this too will pass at some point of time in the future!