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Usher in democratic equilibrium & good governance in 2012
- Published on 01 September 2012
THE disequilibrium in the country's democratic system has reduced the Executive and the Legislature to the status of a second fiddle. The extended debates in Parliament over the Lokpal Bill are a manifestation of this phenomenon.
It is the media, the civil society, mobs/public protests and the Judiciary that are calling the shots. The Executive and the Legislature are increasingly looking for the right signals from these four assertive pillars of democracy to perform their duties.
Good and rational governance has become the biggest casualty in this on-going churn within the world's largest democracy.