Indian Politicians (or more aptly Politicians in India)

It is not yesterday or today and I bet discussions and debates, why Indian politicians (post independence era) are untruthful, corrupt, dishonest, greedy, unreliable, crooked, inept, or one can name any thing that sounds similar, will continue to be held by all Indians in the coming days too.

As we always say in the technical world, one has to find out the ROOT CAUSE for the failure of political system in India. One can argue that the present system is the best and it is impossible to think of any other alternatives for a nation having more than one billion people.
One might wonder, why I wrote POST INDEPENDENCE ERA, does it mean politician before independence were uncorrupt, straight forward, reliable, etc. Before Aug 1947, there were not many political parties in India. The single largest party at that time was Indian National Congress, though there were few regional parties. The goal of all these parties were *INDEPENEDENT* India. We had many leaders, during the period between 1850 and 1947. (One can write or talk a lot about the struggles these leaders underwent in order to get the freedom for their country).

Present day politicians have a common goal too, and that is to fill-up their coffers irrespective what happens to our desh. They don’t care or even think about India 2020 and what all they think about is what I will be in 2020.

In my view there are no real leaders (many examples are there, and I don’t want to give any specific examples and it is for the readers to comment and debate) in Indian politics in present day scenario. The head of any political party survives because of his/her money power and votes that he/she can collect during an election. The other qualifications to be a head of any political party is
- either one’s father or mother is already a head of a party (so one gets qualified by default)

The most ridiculous part is if you are an actor (male/female) and if you have some popularity among the masses you can either join a party or you can start your own party.

I don’t blame these actors but I pity how we Indians can think that if some one act in some successful films then he/she can sit as a MP or MLA and govern the state.

Why this is happening in India? Do we know the reason? Do we have an answer? Does it happen in other countries too? What can we as citizens of India can do to bring in better politicians……..to be continued………..