DEMOCRACY at its weired best,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The fundamental of any success depends upon the activeness of its participation process. Any rule of the game connotes a particular degree of percentage as a bench-mark. Democracy in India has been left to the minimum participation that can hardly be described as a satisfying barometer of a system's achievement. The willingness or the enthusiasm of the people to not come forward despite the best media attention underlines the inherent anomaly in the otherwise most viable option of governance available to humanity from the times immemorial.

A mere 40% - 50% of countrywide participation, which at times drops to 35% in certain sectors of inhabitance decides what the other 50% refuse to accept. Apart from this even the parties with a mere 1% success rate at the hustings take on the role of being the great king-makers of the 1.6 billion country, or still worse is when all these splinter parties having 1% - 7% success ratio put on the hat of Chanakya's of the great Indian political canvass clamouring and blackmailing for the coveted posts or horse-trading to the tune of 25 crores per Member of Parliament.
Elaborating on the same lines, the parties which in a way have been shunned by 90 - 95% electorate (participating or non-participating) or which in the most common-sense term means -the parties which don't even deserve a mention worth their merit-- rule on the rest of the bigger parties having a 93-99% success ratio. As an example , Paswan's 4 M.P.'s or laloo with 20-30M.P.'s have literally blackmailed the previous Govt. in snatching some of the most sensitive posts apart from throwing their arrogant tantrums from time to time and also been able to withheld CBI to proceed cases against them.
Coming to the larger question of non-participation of electorate, the point to be emphasized is the unavailability of options to the common man even if he sincerely wants to cast his fundamental right to vote. At times its like chosing b/n the deep sea and the devil. The said right to participate in the nation building evolves to a logical conclusion only if there exists a mechanism to ban the entry of dishonest, corrupt, murderers, kidnappers, rapists, drug addicts, scamsters, power hungry and arrogance personified candidates who have scant rather nonexistent regard for the rule of the law. The recent outburst bordering on the eccentric limits of a former U.P. strongman and a convicted murderer Amarmani Tripathi's driver-turned-politician to dare the police to rescue the people he had made captive on national television is an example to quote. With 1/5 of the erstwhile parliament having criminals and that too some of them adorning as many as 40-45 serious charges, the electorate's shaken faith and unwillingness to cast vote can not be blamed. The only role played by the people in casting their votes is limited to throw open the avenues of minting 20-25 crores once the horse trading starts,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,well isn't it then wise to be a PAPPU at times................till the code of conduct prohibits the fielding of such candidates in the first place. THE REAL FRUITS OF DEMOCRACY WILL THEN BE DELIVERED.