DO POLITICIANS NEED EDUCATION ?
Articles 14,15,16,17 & 18 of the Constitution of India prescribe equality to all and this equality make any Indian citizen, even if one is illiterate, to become a Minister of any department and lead the people. As per this eligibility provision, an illiterate can become a minister of education and one who has no knowledge of law can become a law minister and advise the lawyers and judges. The prime reason for this is that 140 crores Indians do not respond to anything that happens around them and they have no opinion about anything at all. They receive anything and accept with no resistance. Again there is a cause for it and that is lack of education. It may be surprised to find that seven decades after independence only about five percent of our population are graduates and about one third of the population are below primary level of education (the exact figures may be checked and confirmed) And no any result oriented efforts are being taken up at any level to ensure a cent per cent educated population.
Above all corruption is rampant in our country. A good amount nof our tax money is swallowed by the big cats and small cats of our political and buroeaucratic jungle. Have our people admitted these too? Another dangerous trend surfaced in some states is violence in different forms, sponsored by political parties of the concerned states.
Do we expect another Mahatma Gandhi to lead us and feed us? Each one of us to become a Gandhi to ensure law and order, justice, equality and above all to replace the present system of this hundred party fights to a strict two party political system. That may end many of the vices in our country.
And it is also to be ensured at all levels that to become a minister of at least some selected departments one should hold the prescribed qualifications. Unless people take up this matter directly with help of the judiciary no politician may voluntarily come ahead to implement this.
K V George
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