Wasn't Hitler always a pillar of Indian democracy?

 

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According to a recent V-Dem report, India has deviated from the path of democracy. Even according to the EIU report, India's ranking has dropped. Accordingly, if we analyze this data from 2006 to 2020, it is understood that in 2014, India was at the highest place as a democracy. Since then, there has been only a decline. Today, therefore, there is a lot of discussion about the rise of fascism and dictatorship in the country. At the same time, there are various movements for the protection of democracy. But judging by the historical documents, can it be said that India was a democracy before, it is no more? Going back to the past, however, the history of occupation that began with the arrival of the Aryans in India and ended with the end of British rule, was India able to establish a democratic state immediately after that? No couldn't. And so the throne of seventeen years of India's first prime minister was with almost zero opposition. Even the attempt to suppress the voice of the opposition through emergency during the first twelve years of Indira Gandhi's reign cannot be termed as democracy. So, it must be admitted that even though electoral democracy has always been the mask of India's governance, its face is actually towards one-party politicization. Even today, the Congress, one of the country's main opposition parties, has not been able to assert its leadership outside the Gandhi family. But will the responsibility for this semi-democratic and semi-dictatorship rule rest solely with the political parties or will the people also have to share it?

In fact, in a real democracy, the people are the main commitment, not the leaders. Therefore, not only the leader, but also the masses have to achieve conscious discipline, fairness, perseverance, tolerance and honesty. Attitudes like ‘I don’t understand politics’, ‘I have no interest in politics’, ‘Politics is dirty mud’ etc. only support one type of escapism, and it does not establish great and large democracy. Yet the only grievance of the masses in post-independence India is that there is no great leader in our country who, as soon as he sits in the masnad, the price rise and corruption will be eradicated from the country, job opportunities and income will increase and above all women's freedom and freedom of speech will be established. But if that were the case, the shadow of happiness, prosperity and security would descend on social life even after the extreme lethargy of the people. Whatever it is, it is not democracy.

And this state of mind of the people, that is, the desire and longing for the emergence of a great leader, has nurtured the idea of ‘Ramarajatva’ today and at the same time has given birth to the first step of true dictatorship. Therefore, such a leader has emerged today according to the needs of the people, but he has not been able to separate himself from the character of the masses and become the founder of a truly democratic and welfare state. We also find support of this undemocratic attitude amidst the patriarchal familism in India. The importance of the views of fathers and grandfathers is still sufficient in a family today, because he is the guardian and protector of the family, he is also the place of dependence of the whole family. Equally in the case of the country too, the people expect such a patriarchal leader. As a result, it is not possible to establish real democracy in the country until the idea of patriarchal ‘Ramarajatva’ disappears from the minds of the people. And so, it is useless to lament that there is no democracy today, because democracy never existed in this country.

The meaning of democracy that is established in the hearts of the poorest classes and many rich people of India is the right to vote, that is the circle that must be crossed today. Because this is the only way to resist the national and nationalist capital that has been born in the country today and to stop its monopoly power. Otherwise an endless dictatorship will be created. Not the old historical wheel, people have to find new ways to defeat it. Today, therefore, people have to determine their position irrespective of language, caste, creed and religion. The world will wait and see where the sun rises in the destiny of India - dystopia, utopia or some new position in the middle.