Democracy has failed in India-TOI 4 Mar 2007,0page 9

NATION MAILBOX
MY TIMES, MY VOICE
Democracy has failed in India This is with reference to ‘Govt: For stability sake spare convicted MPs’ (March 3). When political convenience overrides law, it is an epitaph for democracy. There is no further proof needed that democracy has not succeeded in India. The founding fathers of this nation foresaw exactly this situation. They safeguarded governance by federal administration of states in case the democratic form did not work for some reason. What this government appears to be conveying by this argument to the Supreme Court is that we are better governed by criminals than dedicated government servants. I do not know how many right-thinking people still want to buy that argument from our representatives. Irrespective of the voters’ political affiliations these representatives should remember they are there on behalf of the people, no matter that most of them are there despite the people. It is time politicians read the writing on the wall. They should administer the nation or get out and the federal system is perfectly capable of running the country. M B Nataraj, RECD VIA E-MAIL