Many sheep are there. Mostly of three-four colours. But the sheep do not know how many they are. they do not even know why they dislike the other coloured sheep. The sheep are surprised ever now and then when they see a jackal in a sheep's skin begging them to choose him as their leader. And sheep are as they are. They wonder what the heck. Ok!,they say, "We will. But don't bother us at all." Nobody knows how many sheep are required to make one jackal their leader. And the sheep are least bothered.
Lets come to the Great Indian Democracy now. The 82 crore electors will have to choose 543 representatives. Lets do maths (use calculator). That is one representative for 1510128.913443831 or 15 lac (1.5 million) persons. Can this come in the definition of representation? Lets assume that the representative wants to truly represent and want to give a minute to each of the person he is representing. That is 15 lac minutes --- 25168.81522406384 hours and assuming 8 hours a day --- 3146 days and assuming 6 day week --- 524 weeks --- about 10 years. This makes it a one way relationship. The representative becomes the leader.
The Great Indian Democracy is always told that it cannot afford more representatives. Lets again turn to maths. Assuming that one MP for 1 lac persons. Lets say that it becomes a paid representation --- like a lawyer you hire. And every month --- regardless of his economic situation --- a person is charged Rs. 5 a month... or Rs. 60 per annum ... or Rs. 300 as a voting fee once. Then it would be Rs. 5 lacs per month to maintain an MP. That seems reasonable.
The bane of the Great Indian Democracy is that it is just an election process without representation. We want more representatives and we can afford them also!
Lets come to the Great Indian Democracy now. The 82 crore electors will have to choose 543 representatives. Lets do maths (use calculator). That is one representative for 1510128.913443831 or 15 lac (1.5 million) persons. Can this come in the definition of representation? Lets assume that the representative wants to truly represent and want to give a minute to each of the person he is representing. That is 15 lac minutes --- 25168.81522406384 hours and assuming 8 hours a day --- 3146 days and assuming 6 day week --- 524 weeks --- about 10 years. This makes it a one way relationship. The representative becomes the leader.
The Great Indian Democracy is always told that it cannot afford more representatives. Lets again turn to maths. Assuming that one MP for 1 lac persons. Lets say that it becomes a paid representation --- like a lawyer you hire. And every month --- regardless of his economic situation --- a person is charged Rs. 5 a month... or Rs. 60 per annum ... or Rs. 300 as a voting fee once. Then it would be Rs. 5 lacs per month to maintain an MP. That seems reasonable.
The bane of the Great Indian Democracy is that it is just an election process without representation. We want more representatives and we can afford them also!
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