Hope is there for positive change

Politicians are created by the press which eulogizes some or other personalities. Using the support of media, party or personalities gain control of the voting public and gain a seat in the parliament. Once the politicians are elected they forget the election promises made. These mediocre politicians trivialize issues. And they fail to play their important roles in active democracy. They lack dedication to the 'cause of the betterment of the people'

Today genuine role of politics is to address to the changing needs of the public and direct their interests towards overcoming hurdles that fluctuating economy causes. Power of the politician is limited. He will only make short-term plans, for he must show results within his term to get re-elected again. Only senior government officials can make policies which is long-term result yielding; benefits for the people can come when a plan works well on the long-run. By limiting the powers of the politician and increasing the role of the government this can be counter-checked.

Controlling or dealing with the press are not the real problems of the government. Reforms are needed in functioning of the government to make it better to deal with the crisis in controlling inflation, unemployment, poverty, in planning urbanization, in promoting industrialization, in modernizing agriculture, in making health schemes, streamline welfare schemes and preventing environmental degradation and so on. We need urgently better governance for integration of modern technology and better land-use plans, for well-planned cities ; we need to promote better decision- making processes—meetings, video-conferencing, tele-conferencing, emailing ; to bring about better administrative efficiency by re-engineering departments so that old conservative compartmentalization gives way to inter-departmental collaborations, and, under controlled financial limits, we must improve quality of government officers(retraining in using ICT etc) quickly. We must improve the quality of the life of the vast majority of the people and make laws which will bring about a healthy society. For it is the government which will bring improvement in the life of the people and not the election-oriented politician.