Ensuring people’s control over the political system, process and institutions

The Editor, Sir, It gives me great pleasure to read the report on the speech of Com. Prakash Rao made in Delhi on April 10, 2011 on the occasion of a Public Consultation on the way forward to ensure people's control over the political system, process and institutions.

The Editor, Sir, It gives me great pleasure to read the report on the speech of Com. Prakash Rao made in Delhi on April 10, 2011 on the occasion of a Public Consultation on the way forward to ensure people's control over the political system, process and institutions. The people of India have reached of point of realization that the country is run by big monopolies and oligarchs, and the entire system is rigged in the favour of super profits for them, and penury, suffering and destitution for the rest. The political institutions of representative democracy merely serve the needs of the big monopolies and indeed that of private property alone. It is very important that at this time the people of the country do not get disheartened and retreat into a shell. Such a state of affairs would be a disaster and the power would permanently reside in the hands of the present day ruling circles. It is only through the participation of the people at all levels that the solutions can and will be found for the problems that beset the country. The initiative of the Lok Raj Sangathan in organizing the Public Consultation is an important one and congratulations must be duly accorded for this. The deliberations of the event which are recorded in the report will provide an important corner stone as the process unfolds.

I would like to submit here that the people of India must deliberate on the present day Institutions and ask whether they have come from the concrete conditions of India or whether they have been imposed on them first by the British and later by the ruling circles. They must ask what was the experience of our forefathers before the present dispensation, and ask whether those experiences can be renewed and refreshed and updated to meet the problems that the country faces today. They must evolve a political philosophy and theory of their own unfettered by considerations of the present day ruling circles and the Eurocentric world view they have inherited. It is only by engaging with these questions that the problems that are posed in modern Indian political life can find a positive resolution.

Sincerely,

S. Nair, Kochi

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