Paradoxes in Indian Political System

There are lots of paradoxes present in the Indian political environment. For example, Indian government initially wanted to have Hindi as the only official language of India. However, the politicians and people from south India were against such moves and under general consensus English became the common official language across all states. Now, the command over the English language is one of the biggest strength of India in the current globalization and outsourcing world. Take another example of Maoists. Maoists are communists who say that they are fighting for the poor people and still it is killing these people only in various parts of India. In Mumbai, the development was brought up over the years, with the help of people who were not originally from Mumbai and now same mumbaikars want its door closed for any new entrants. When L.K. Advani spoke about Jinnah it created quite a storm in the political circle. The same leader who was allegedly involved in Babri demolition, an act against Indian Muslim community, is now referring to Jinnah as secular leader who actually was instrumental in dividing this country on the basis of cast. Lalu Prasad Yadav, who has always been seen as corrupt face Indian politics, has brought a major turnaround in the Indian Railways operations which no one actually ever thought of.

Consider the fact the one of the main parties of our democratic country always has its head from one single family. In fact talks have started in the political circle that next PM of this country is going to be Rahul Gandhi, the current generation of Gandhi family and we call our system democratic. When Sonia Gandhi accepted the position of Congress Chairman, the first person to break away from Congress and formed his own party was Sharad Pawar on the basis of her foreign nationality (however people say that his main agenda was to become PM). Now Sharad Pawar is holding a key alliance and ministerial berth in the cabinet with the same party without even raising any voices against Sonia Gandhi. In fact some people believe that had he been in the congress party, he could have realized his dream of becoming PM of this country in place of Manmohan Singh. All these politicians of Indian political environment can be consider as a great thinkers as they have been running this country for such a long time and all of them have faced many paradoxes during their political career.