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India has much to learn from British democracy

Currently the British political and economic situation is not stable.  However, what I am impressed with is how much more mature and respectful British democracy is!  We hear words like "moral obligation",  "I take responsibility" etc.  The contenders and the PM regularly give press conferences and media/people ask questions without any fear. We see leaders resigning  if they don't deliver as they promised !  Leaders are elected via proper democratic party regulations after facing rounds of questioning/scrutiny from party workers! Do we hear any of the latter in India?   

British focus is on the important issues like economy, jobs, inflation etc and not on religion, caste, creed etc.  The principles of each political party are respected and politicians don't jump from one party to another constantly and regularly change their party principles!

Indian senior politicians are self proclaiming India as "mother of all democracies"  but at this stage I think we are more like the "one disgust of all democracies!"  Can the Indian democracy aspire to reach such high democratic standards  or even show some improvement towards the same?  



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Inflation-linked dearness allowance needed

ELVIDIO MIRANDA, Via email
Published Oct 25, 2022, 8:06 PM IST
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The government should introduce for government employees a variable system of payment of dearness allowance linked to the monthly average of inflation percentage so that employees can tide over the steep hike in especially food prices as well as the withdrawal of subsidy payment for LPG which is making the cost of living unbearable for working class people. It has been noticed that revenue collection by the government in the form of GST, Excise, Corporate Tax and Income Tax…

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