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Quick Update on Bihar Anjuman's activities of May 2012: Index Page [Page-2]|| [Page-8] || [Page-9]

> Our Journey To The Day Of Resurrection, Part-XII [Page-3]

> The story of an ordinary achiever [Gulafshan Jahan] [Page-3]

> How to clear all the confusion [Page-4]

> India and Pakistan: Lengthening Shadows of a Toxic Past, Part-3 [Page-5]

> Uff Yeh Andaaz-e-Masihaayee! [Page-5]

> Is That Your Profession-Or Just Your Title? [Page-6]

> Indian Muslims and the Competitive Exams [Page-6]

> Be a Torch Bearer, Dr. Annie John [Page-6]

> Are Muslims insensitive to causes pursued by their NGOs? [Page-7]

> I too wanna be a TRADER; not a TRAITOR... [Page-7]

> Youth is the season of hope, by Naved Masood [Page-10]

> Dowry (Jahez) in marriage, with or without demand [Page-10]

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India's Parliament Celebrates Itself on Its 60th Birthday on 13th May 2012

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Dear Readers,
Assalam Alaikum.

Last month 13th of May, we celebrated 60 years of Indian Parliament, a proud moment. We have had our share of glitches but we have carried on. Success of democracy requires existence of qualitative citizens. A parliament should essentially reflect their voices. Noted writer Patrick French’s research about our MPs gives us some interesting facts (India: A Portrait). It reports that overall 28.6 % of our MPs have a hereditary connection i.e. 156 out of its total 545 MPs have entered parliament because oLast month 13th of May, we celebrated 60 years of Indian Parliament, a proud moment. We have had our share of glitches but we have carried on. Success of democracy requires existence of qualitative citizens. A parliament should essentially reflect their voices. Noted writer Patrick French’s research about our MPs gives us some interesting facts (India: A Portrait). It reports that overall 28.6 % of our MPs have a hereditary connection i.e. 156 out of its total 545 MPs have entered parliament because one of their relations was in politics. While RLD tops the list, all five of its MPs are with family links, NCP ranks second, Congress has 78 MPs out of its 208 with familial bonds (37.5%), while BJP‘s figure stood at 22 out of 116 (19%). Intriguingly, majority of our women MPs (69%) too have arrived through family connections. It is interesting to note that every MP under the age of thirty had in effect ‘inherited’ a parliament seat! If this trend continues, French emphatically declares, “India’s next general election was likely to return not a Lok Sabha, a house of the people, but a Vansh Sabha, a house of dynast.
The ‘family’ factor in Indian politics can’t be entirely discarded as a bad apple but the scale on which it’s going on in India is worrying. Hereditary politics implies that fresh young talent won’t find a place for fulfilling their right aspirations in a set up full of Boys, Gals and Spouses of our politicians. It further implies that a few, privileged to be born in the big political families, would get a job without toiling hard. The nasty thing about it is that, power would continue to be centered in a few select hands. Dynastic politics is surely against the very essence of democracy.
Our freedom struggle got us rid not just of the British but also of the 554 princely states of erstwhile India, now this unabashed tamasha of family politics puts a question mark over this whole business of democracy. Sad to say that we Indians have got accustomed to this Vansh Politics.
Try closing your eyes and recall all the names of our ‘Bacha log’ politicians that come to your mind; I am sure it would be a crowded place!
Gunter Grass says, “The job of a citizen is to keep his/her mouth open!” I am following him, will you, too?

Ms. Asma Anjum Khan

Editor-in-chief
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