Dates for the 15th general election of democratic India are about to be announced and there is enough fret about the clash of dates of the 20 over cricket tournament IPL with the dates of election.^[1]
Some politicians have shown there concern and have suggested to avoid any such clash. It sounds a little funny. Will the electorate choose to entertain themselves with the romance of 20 over limited cricket match, or will they look forward to cast their vote and decide for the leader of their fates for another five year span.
It is an interestingly strange point of democratic period when the politicians are sincerely worried whether they will succeed to bring the voters out of their houses to choose for a government and its new representative. They fear that some cricket match may decrease the percentage of votes.
Elections are the festivals of democracy, and voting is not only a ritual, yet it is an important activity that can be expressed as right of the voters as well as his duty.
Often we choose the better option between the available, yet the socio-political conditions of a country or even a constituency may force the electorate to choose for the lesser evil.
India at present is drastically suffering from any strong base of leaders and Indian politicians doesn’t have any major issue to stage a platform to bring about some certain magical “change”. May be that is why the fuss about the clash of dates of elections and IPL matches is more real. Politicians know there is no charisma which can invigorate the masses in the urban India to go to election booths and vote for them massively, that is why these days all television channels and news papers keep advertising about the importance and worth of voting. Obviously, the worth of voting is not visible by itself. So the question arises, can a fairness cream make you fairer?
It is not hard to see the crumbles and fault of democratic system whole round the world and especially in India.
We all know that democracy to an extent is much better than all other known governance and administration systems, then why is that people are less and less interested in the democratic processes? Why Indian youth feel it of no use to cast a vote? Why we need models, popular actors and advertisers to remind us and “wake us up” to cast a vote?
The basic reason behind this lethargic or uninterested attitude of Indian youth towards the election is the lack of sense of freedom. Casting a vote is not about giving our consent; it is more about choosing a dictator for five years.^[2] The dictator supported by majority becomes the ruler. The structure of majority rule makes it faulty.
In Indian scenario, the worth of government is depleting fast and especially in 2008, many incidences exposed not only the inadequacy of government but also the need of lack of governmental interventions.
The inability of Indian intelligence and police to abort the terrorist activities and safeguard the common person was one of them. Aftermath of Mumbai attack again raised the issue of need and importance of private security services to protect cities and citizens. The bigger business conglomerates already announced to innovate and device some private security systems, sooner or later, security system will see a surge of viable options for the common man too to get the more efficient, result oriented, just and unbiased security services at viable charges.
Recently, a top operator of the terrorist group Indian Mujahedeen confessed about his involvement in 2006 Mumbai train blasts. Sadiq Sheikh confessed his involvement on a private news channel, the amazing fact that Mumbai ATS has already filed a charge sheet against 13 people for that terrorist attack and Sadiq Sheikh was none of them. Mumbai ATS claimed that those train blasts were conspired and staged by Simi activists and Pakistanis, Sadiq Sheikh belong to none of them.^[3]
Obviously, it signifies the failure of Indian security services and intelligence, more than that, it creates an environment of disbelief, and how we can say now that the person charge sheeted by ATS already are really criminal. We have already suffered the monopoly of governmental forces in Gujarat and we can avoid any repetition by privatizing the security services.
Not only government police system, government judiciary system is also suffering from of extreme corruption and inadequacies. The extreme number of unsolved unheard cases shows the need of some innovative ways to provide justice and there rises the possibilities of privatized judiciary system, which eventually will gain roots in India if projected properly and rationally.
According to a new governmental survey, the private sector in India is providing much more job opportunities in India in service sector and almost 86% of such service sector enterprises are self-sufficient, independent of any governmental help, subsidy or increment. The services included in the survey were hotels and restaurants, transportation services, travel agencies, education, health and social work. Thus, what were not included in the survey were trade, government and public sector companies and industrial establishments.^[4]
The survey clarifies that government is actually not required for proper administration and job creation. Privatization of roads and railways is not only properly viable, but also it is already under consideration to be experimented and implemented in India.
At some level or other, the common man also realizes that the government interventions in daily life activities not only causes wastage of wealth and efforts, it makes activities go slow and clumsy too, and the recent failures of governments worldwide to control the economy through their Keynesian plans of bailouts and governmental spending further indicate the lessening worth of government.
Indian government have already provided two economic stimulus plans and RBI has applied its policies to ease down the market. RBI may again decrease the rates.
Bailout fails and will fail again because of the fact that they are not cure but the disease. Economic stimulus is just like the case of giving an invigorating drug to an exhausted worker who is working since long without any rest and sleep and is at the verge of collapse so that the worker may work a little more. It actually does not help because even after the drug effect, the worker will succumb to exhaustion.
The best way to solve out the economic crisis is to let the economy cure itself, let the worker take rest and gain energy to work again.
In absence of any reasonable issue to raise mass support, politicians often prefer to raise emotional and irrational issues, in India, politicians often divide the vote bank on the name of caste, creed, religion or sex. Often some politicians uses the issues of class differences too and start raising communistic slogans, yet with the time, the electorate is becoming more informed and positive and ultimately such emotional and irrational issues will also see an end.
The basic flaw of democracy, which makes it none different from majority rule, is because of the governmental policy of compulsory taxation.^[5] Taxes are the sign of slavery. As a matter of fact, we do pay for every breath we take; we pay for the permission to live. No one is FREE in this entire world wherever there is a system of tax/subsidies/bailouts.
A US citizen is as slave as Indian Chinese, Russian Iranian, Pakistani, or African. Slavery was never abandoned in our world.
We pay for the permission to live, to buy water, or a soap, to buy a pin or a tractor. Whatever we do, we do only after we pay the permission for doing so.
That is what compulsory taxation is, price of permission to live, to act.
In a free society, compulsory taxation will be a crime.
Voluntary taxation will be the right way as it will represent the agreed upon mutually beneficial action of a group.
Eventually, slavery will see an end and we will get rid of the curse of compulsory taxation sometime in future.
Often people say that government is necessary evil, eventually people will start realizing that lack of government does not necessarily mean chaos; it can very well be a well sustained system without any coercive government yet based on rational humanitarian principles of individual liberty and free market.

1. IPL and Election dates may clash, Yahoo news [↩]
2. Impasse of Democracy, Reason for Liberty [↩]
3. IM man puts ATS in black spot, Times of India [↩]
4. 86% service companies are self-sufficient, Times of India [↩]
5. What are Taxes, Reason for Liberty [↩]