The corollary is that such responsibility can only best be carried out if the commensurate decision making authority and adequate financial resources are made available at each operative level, i.e Gramsabha / Municipal ward, Zilla Parishad / Municipal Corporation, State Legislature and Parliament. This ensures that every citizen has a sense of agency, of being involved as directly as possible, in decisions affecting them and the execution thereof and will also, instill recog-nition of the value and importance of their vote and the need to exercise it with a sense of responsibility and without fear.

“Everything ‘top down’ freezes the structure and makes it vulnerable to stresses and shocks, while ‘bottom up’ thrives under the right amount of stress and disorder” – Nassim N. Taleb.

He goes on to say that allowing for such decentralized decision making (down to State and Gramsabha/Municipal ward level) makes the system better able to tryout various solutions to problems and better withstand and recover from any adverse effects of any uncertainty, disorder and the unknown. It makes the system gain from such an experience and become stronger and better – it makes the system more ‘Anti Fragile’.

Secret Ballot

This is a way of eliminating coercion and allowing for a free and frank determination. Hence, all voting, at General elections or to elect leaders of various elected bodies, or of Parties etc, must compulsorily be by way of a secret ballot. Attempts to negate secrecy by insisting on the showing of the ballot paper to someone or another before submission, should be denied.

Conclusion

Democracy is the best option for a way of Government. However, to be effective it must allow for change of Governments and Politicians at regular intervals through a peaceful and fair electoral process in which the people at the local level have a say in the selection of the candidate.

– JAI BHARAT! – JAI HIND! –

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