Is democracy the right way to elect the Prime Minister? (micro blog)

Firstly, we need to understand that we never elect the PM of a country. We just elect our local representative.

It is unfortunate for our democracy that people vote looking at the PM/CM candidate of a party. While the right approach is to look at the local candidates for MP/MLA seat and then see who among them can fulfill our demands.

The thing that most of us don’t understand is that the Prime Minister will not fix your local sewage. He can only look after things of national interest.

Voting for the desired Prime Minister is the single point of failure of our democracy. It is because of one face (say Narendra Modi) that we unknowingly elect criminals to the parliament.

So democracy is not the way to elect Prime Minister. Democracy is for you to elect your local representative, the person who will directly be accountable to you.

Now the next time you vote- don’t vote for a party or the PM/CM candidate. Vote for the best MP/MLA candidate from your constituency.

Only then will we be able to reap the benefits of a democracy.

-ChoubeySahab