I am a firm believer in democracy, but has the manner of its functioning in our country become antithetical to good governance? Given the frequency of elections, and the near unbridgeable bitterness between the ruling NDA and the Opposition, can we expect united action to resolve the real needs of the common person? Constant blame game, and the priority of winning the next state election, is making this a remote possibility. A democracy, in spite of internal acrimony, must govern. Even as political parties continue their mutual recrimination after the national elections, and the impending parliamentary session is likely to be paralyzed by the unedifying confrontation between a weakened BJP and a stronger Opposition, millions of ordinary people in the capital of the country, that boasts of being the world’s fastest growing economy, are struggling to get a drop of something as basic as water.
Horrifying visuals of hordes running after a water tanker in this sweltering heat continue, as politicians are busy discussing whether Rahul Gandhi should have kept Wayanad or Rae Bareli, and what is the real import of the speech given by Mohan Bhagwat. Any solution is evaded by the endlessly nauseating charade of blame-games. The BJP is seeking to make political capital of the water shortage by accusing the Delhi government run by AAP.
And the AAP is accusing the BJP for deliberately accentuating this crisis. Nor is this crisis restricted only to the national capital. In Maharashtra the.