He supported leaders of civil society voicing their concerns; but," I don't support elected representatives yielding their obligations and responsibilities to civil society representatives. Let us remember that the foundation of this country is parliamentary democracy," said P. Chidambaram this morning.
Very sophisticated distinction, we must admit. Only men of considerable sophistication such as PC can understand such fine distinctions. Persons who came up from the lower ranks of the army, physical instructors of a traditional kind self-help volounteers of the country variety are rather too uncouth to form part of such discourse. One needs training at sundry places such as Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Yale or Sorbonne, you see!
Civil Society id such a loose term, nameless, by and large unrecognizable people can walk in a door and walk out from another. They form the parcel of democracy, good for electoral rolls, paying taxes, suffering petro-price-hikes with due resignation and a , no-longer just Hindu, view of detachment.
Parliamentary democracy… Ah! on the other hand, is the very pith and substance of what the founders of this country envisioned… the PART of the Parcel. The constituents of the parcel vote and choose from time to time those who constitute the main part of the democracy: the Parliament and the Legislatures…
Once the franchise is exercised the elected representatives will discuss and debate in those Romanesque buildings, how the parcel must be shaped—this is televised, so there is no need for more debate with people outside the parliament… thus spake the One whose Chitta is the Space and the people and the Universe and its Wrappings.
Kubla Khan’s Xanadu was not more majestic than the Indian Parliament.
The very Representatives of Gods spoke the Words there.
How should this magnificently structured democracy open the doors for an influx of the gibberish that the leaders of the civil society let loose?
Democracy is not the civilian people; it is the representatives who are sent into the building for five years at a time. People should learn to wash their hands off with Lifebuoy, not experiment with rolls of paper as people in the west do.
But uncouth civilians with a low rank army background can not understand this. Will Doordarshan educate and sophisticate them please?
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