They say, in a democracy, you get what you deserve. Most pertinent then is to ask if we deserve Modi. Twice in a row, the mastermind behind one of the most shameful act of genocide has been elected by the people of Gujarat as their leader. This gives rise to two questions - if democracy actually is the final answer to the age old effort to find the perfect form of government and secondly, if democracy actually works.
If we take the example of Bihar, we know that Mr. Laloo Yadav and his party had lost the confidence of the people at least 10 years before he was finally ousted. A more obvious example is the West Bengal where the communists have percolated so deep that there is no possibility of a free and fair election. Residents of both Bengal and Bihar can testify to the 'success' of electoral process because it is evident there. At other places, there is more pretentions of fairness, though reality is more or less similar.
Today, almost all non-congress alies are welcoming Modi as a hero - not because he is one but because democracy needs politics to be electoral and notideological. No accolades to congress and its allies. No political commentator can deny that if Modi was to offer a split into any party, it would only welcome it.
They say, in a democracy you get what you deserve. We say we don't deserve democracy in the first place. What do you say?
