Ripples A Reflection On Dattopant Thengadi's Third Way - Part 27

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He expresses the view that even western parliamentary democracy too is not the 'only possible form of good government'. Many thinkers criticised it as a form of government. It is modified by many to suit the requirements of the nations. Churchill criticised it as ' the best among the worst forms of government'.

We need to bridge Direct democracy and representative democracy to have benifits of both. Though the systems of Referendum, Plebiscite,Initiative and Recall are used to bridge, all these instruments failed to achieve the objective.

Alexander solzhenitsyn (a Russian novelist,was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union (USSR)), doubted the utility of party system. He thought that may be' extra-party or no- party system would be of more help for the national development.)

Even M N Roy ( An Indian philosopher who moved away from orthodox Marxism to espouse the philosophy of radical humanism, was attempting to chart a third course between liberalism and communism.) discussed the concept of 'people committees'.

Of course our constitution is influenced by the 'Westminister model' forgetting that we need to approach the issue in our own way.

P Koteshwar Rao ,a constitutional expert, described our constitution as ' neither Indian nor Gandhian'. He further says that we ought to refer to our 'native soil' and 'ancient wisdom'. He did not see people's parcipation in framing it. Ideologies were imported , so thought of the need of revision of many parts. He stated that it is to be repealed and replaced. Obviously our national ethos is to be focused and all modern trends and needs to be considered.