Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
The Indian system is a combination of multiple constitutions around the world. The central government is elected in every 5 years once. The majority wins, in case where there's no majority, they may coalesce. The state elections are also held once in 5 years. But most of the important policies are with the center. So, we have 2 main parties, Indian national Congress; which is currently struggling due to lack of proper leadership, and the Bhartiya Janata Party also translated as "the Indian People's Party"; which is currently ruling and the prime minister is also from the ruling party.
Everyone above the age of 18 gets to vote in every election. However, in the rural parts of India, this is often turned around and people vote for whoever handing out cash to them. This is serious corruption and because there's inefficiency in law and order system, this is often left unchecked. There's lack of infrastructure too. Let me give an example. In last state elections, when I went to vote, there was a braille waiting machine in front of me, but no braille reference sheet for telling me which number of buttons is for which party. So, someone did come and explain the numbers and to what party they correspond, at the time of actual waiting however, I forgot the numbers and have to guess which number to press. Can you imagine, I didn't know who I voted for when I pressed the button. This is not common and in central elections, they did give me the braille reference sheet.
The Indian National Congress party could be regarded as the leftwing party, but this is not in the western sense. Because more of this is due to religion. And sadly, Religion plays a very big and dirty role in Indian politics. Moreover, Casts are politicized too. Because BJP identifies with a national Hindu group called Rastriya Swayam Seva Sangh, and because BJPs origins are in that group, it is regarded as right wing. In case of politics, both of these parties do enact liberal policies so that is debatable. Congress however, due to its hand in few Religious happenings, it becomes difficult to determine who's left and who's right. Actually, when it's about vote-bank, everyone becomes left and everyone becomes right and everyone becomes center too. That's the way Indian politics works. So, if 1 party does something wrong in so and so term and if people get really agree, you would have pretty good idea about who's being elected next.
Currently, BJP is doing so many things wrong, and INC is not showing strong leadership too. So, if someone wanted to come up with a political party and break the duopoly, now would be the right time. The Aam Admi Party, which is currently ruling in the state of Delhi, have shown promising leadership and policies. However, they really lack the manpower and capital to go all out and participate throughout the nation in the next elections.
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