Re: Government scraps Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes! Quote:
Originally Posted by JLS Anyways, I know this argument of peoples mandate v/s constitutional mandate is only used to attack and defame government of different political ideology. |
Tend to agree with you. This entire silly excuse that the "ruling government only got x% of votes, so x-100% of voters were actually against them" only came after 2014. I have never heard it before. It was assumed that who ever gets a majority in Lok Sabha, forms the government of the day. Even if CPI who currently has one MP in Lok Sabha manages to get 240+ seats in the next round of elections they can (and should) form the government. Quote:
Originally Posted by deerhunter Almost all other presidential systems too has similar majority votes for winners. eg: France. Both France and US are bulwarks of democracy. |
We are actually apeing the British democracy which is Parliamentary Democracy and pretty much follows all the British format. They have a queen, we have a President. Where as the USA has a totally different way of doing things. Their President is much more powerful, where as our Presidents for quite some times were considered to be rubber stamps. So the way US counts the votes, and how India (and UK) counts the votes are different. Quote:
The word 'popular mandate' is actually used by governments to give legitimacy to their policies.
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Here it is better to infer that 'popular mandate' = majority of the voters electing candidates from a specific party (which means they have faith in that party and has given them the mandate to rule). Individually how much vote %-age these candidates got, or what is their winning margin then becomes immaterial. Quote:
Originally Posted by benbsb29 Considering how the goal-posts have conveniently changed every few days, whats ok today, won't be tomorrow. |
This being a huge excercise the yard sticks and measuring posts would have to change. If the "goal post" was that new currency would only be released after the old currency comes back completely, do you feel it would work out? Consider this as fighting a war. Have you ever heard of a General who had a complete plan firmly written down and executed to a T? It is just not possible, because the opponents wont be sitting ducks. To be frank now I am really scared of some other country attacking us. The media and the leftist liberals may expect the Indian Army to share the complete war plan, troop movements and then even get their approvals before sending the first soldier out to fight the war. And when we lose that, the same media and leftist liberals would blame the Army (and the government of the day). Quote:
Originally Posted by greenhorn The pricinple that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer - seems to be a casualty of this exercise |
That is an excellent principle to believe in. People should be allowed to dodge tax, gleefully cheat the government and also gloat about it. People should be encouraged to hoard money and cheat an honest person. This principle is essentially flawed to support any guilty person. And I am sure we Indians would misuse this. And yes if there were lots of innocents suffering the country would have seen major riots now. There have been riots for far more simpler things. Quote:
Originally Posted by Nav-i-gator It might be painful, and it is not a guaranteed success nevertheless. But one need to try. | ![With Stupid](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/Sign with stupid.gif) .No sir, it is not like that. India is destined to be ruled by certain families for ever. We should all be thankful that these families take care of like lordships treaing their serfs. We should also encourage every body to dodge taxes, and come up with excuses for why some thing should NOT be done. We should continue to blame the British for all our problems even today, but then also expect them to give us "good job certificates" and "pat on the back" through some awards etc. When the rest of the world moves on, we would all have to still gloat about past glories (and how pretty much every other country have managed to rule over us). |