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Will the opposition-less governance system lead India to the Presidential Democracy of America?

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11 Aug, 22 10:10
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- Niti Gopendra Bhatt

Will the opposition-less governance system lead India to the Presidential Democracy of America?

New Delhi. Recently, news came to the headlines that because of the widespread opposition of the Congress on the day of the swearing-in ceremony of India's first newly elected tribal woman President Draupadi Murmu on Monday, July 25, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has appointed working President of All India Congress Committee Sonia Gandhi National. A new summons has been sent for questioning in the Herald case, according to which Sonia Gandhi will appear before the ED on July 26 instead of 25. There is a discussion in the political circles that since Sonia Gandhi is a member of the Lok Sabha. SheisalsotheactingNationalPresidentofCongress, so to prevent her from going to the swearing-in ceremony, the ED kept her appearance on July 25 so that the opposition of Congress could not get media headlines.Whereasearlier,theinvestigatingagency had asked herto appear on July 25, i.e., on Monday. Sonia Gandhi was also questioned on July 21, and many Congress leaders gave their arrested while protesting on the road against the ED proceedings. It is noteworthy that theED is probing the alleged money laundering case related to the National Heraldnewspaper.Forthis,SoniaGandhiwas called for questioning on July 21. Given Sonia's ill health, she was not questioned earlier. On July 21, Sonia, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi also went to the ED headquarters. Earlier, Rahul Gandhi was interrogated in the ED for several hours for three to four days. Even then, the Congress came out on the streets across the country, including the national capital New Delhi and gave violent protests and arrests. The beauty of Democracy The roots of Democracy in India are profound; only then, with the end of the Emergency imposed byPrime MinisterIndiraGandhi, in the general elections held in 1977-78, did the people show the way out of power to the Congress government of Indira Gandhi. For the first time in the country, the United JanataParty,formedbytheoppositionparties,formed thegovernmentundertheleadershipofMorarjiBhai Desai ofGujarat.However, only two and a half years later, the same people restored the Congress to powerduetoitsdisintegrationduetotheemergence of differences in the Janata Party formed by the alliance of several political parties. Later the governments of other mixed parties were created at the center, and after the governments of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress also came and went under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, The incidents happened when Narendra Modi of the BJP emerged as a new leader and then when he became the Prime Minister of NDA, the politics of polarization of Hindu votes and the collapse of family parties led to the failure of the governments of Congress and other parties in the country one after the other. At the same time, the slogan of Congress-mukt BharatoftheBJPalsostartedrising.Undertheleadership of Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan and Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh, the Congress has its governments left in only two states. In Maharashtra, too,theUddhavThackeraygovernmentofShivSena, supported by Congress andSharadPawar, has collapsed. The Ashwamedha Ghoda of the BJP has reached Karnataka in southern India, and now the eyesoftheBJPareonother statesaswell.However, in the national capital of the country, Delhi, Kerala, West Bengal, and Punjab, the BJP's pulse could notmelt,andinOdisha,AndhraPradesh,Telangana, etc. Even though he could not get the expected success, the BJP destroyed the unity of the opposition parties in the presidential election. In the vice-president election, the opposition seems to be in the same fate. Assembly elections will be held in several states in the coming two years before the general elections to the Lok Sabha will be born in 2024. What Congress and other opposition parties can feed in these elections has to be seen. Otherwise, if the opposition has sunk into the politics of the country, then no one will be able to stop the Narendra Modi government from being invincible like Indira Gandhi and ruling under an umbrella. Still, the thing to think aboutis thatforademocratic country likeIndia,there is no opposition-less governance system in India. Wouldn't Presidential Democracy likeAmerica lead the way and limit the country's politics to the politics of only two major parties? In political circles, these days, the discussion is also in full swing that in a democracy, the ruling party andtheoppositionarenavigatingfromtheParliament to the road is not a new thing, but Democracy. If the tendency to uproot the opposition from the root becomes dominant, then Democracy will have no meaning, and the dangers of a dictatorship system will increase. However, India is made of different soil. After the country's independence, healthy democratic systems were seen for many decades. The tradition of making continued. In both the houses of the Parliament, the lower house Lok Sabha and the upper house Rajya Sabha for decades, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Speaker of the Rajya Sabha, the representative of the ruling party, and the Deputy Speaker of the Opposition. Similarly,thetraditionofmakingtheSpeakerand DeputySpeakeroftheVidhanSabhaalsowentalong the same lines for years, but later these nourishing traditions were broken. However, over some time, theoppositionleaderswereprovidedfacilitiesequivalent to the cabinet ministers. After Indira Gandhi, RajivGandhialsoAfterthebrutalassassination,when Congress leaderNarasimhaRaobecamethePrime Minister, the Indian government sent the leader of the opposition, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to the UNO to represent India in the United Nations against Pakistan. The whole world had seen that diplomatic initiativeofIndia.AndthehealthytraditionsofDemocracy existing in India were also praised with free will.Atal Bihari Vajpayee on India's victory in the 1971 IndiaPakistanwarandthehistoric creationofanewcountry in the form of Bangladesh by fragmenting Pakistan. In the Parliament, Indira Gandhi was addressedastheform'MaaDurga.'Theparliamentary history of India is full of such incidents; that is why India is considered the most significant and best democratic country in the world. He was the leader of the opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly for years and later became the Speaker of the Assembly; Dungarpur MaharawalLaxmanSinghusedtosaythatinademocratic system, the ambiguity of the opposition is the hallmark of a healthy democracy. In 1975, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared an Emergency and sent all the leaders of the major opposition parties to jail. Then the freedom of the press and media was also severely attacked. During the Congress rule, the state governments of the opposition parties were dissolved, and President's rule was imposed on them. This tendency of the ruling party was criticized everywhere. Eventually, in 1977, for the first time after independence,theCongressgovernment,whichhad been ruling at the center, was dismissed from power.After that, their state governments were also out of power.


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