Why Modi deserves to win

 

Let's now turn our attention AAP's Election Manifesto. 

Why is Governance by Referendum a BAD IDEA?

There can never be an established mechanism for triggering a referendum. 

1. You can't hold a Referendum for every decision, because millions of decisions 

are taken by Govts every single day. 

If Referendums are held occasionally, AAP's Governance Model will be no different 

from the existing Governance Models, for the most part. 

2. Referendums can undermine Parliamentary Sovereignty - ie the right of parliament 

to make and remake any law and not be bound by their 

successors.

3. Allows politicians to absolve themselves of  responsibility for making difficult decisions.

For example, what answer do you expect to get if you ask, in a Referendum,

 "Do you want electricity tariffs to be increased?" If you never increase electricity 

tariffs, the Govt will become bankrupt, and electricity supply will stop fully.

This is a decision to be taken by the Govt. Like a well-meaning mother gives a bitter

 pill to her ailing child. Will the mother ever ask the child, "Do you want to take

 this bitter pill?"

A competent Govt can handle such situations well, but weak Govts would hold

Referendum and blame the consequences on the people.

If all that we want Govts to do is to hold Referendums, we need only a few websites,

 not PMs and Ministers.

People want and need to be led by good and competent leaders, not followed by bad 

and incompetent ones. We need to elect leaders, not followers.

4. If Governments can hold them selectively as and when they want, they are unlikely 

to hold them unless they are fairly confident they will win the vote - the obvious 

example of this was whether AK wanted to accept CM's position.

5. Governments are unlikely to be neutral participants and the phrasing of the

 question(s) can distort the results.

For example, suppose UPA Govt had asked, through Referendum, the question: 

"We plan to give Spectrum to bidders on a 'first come, first served basis' which 

will make mobile affordable to everyone. Shall we go ahead", what answer do you

 think people would have given?

6. Inevitably, there would be unbalanced resources for groups on opposite sides of

 the debate – how are referendums funded?

Surely, the side with more resources is more likely to win, and it is most likely to 

be the Govt itself.

7. Complex and difficult issues can become oversimplified and the electorate may suffer

 from fundamental problem of lack of information – result may reflect “snapshot” of

 opinions that can change over time.

For example, if you had held a referendum immediately after the Mumbai 26/11

 attack on whether India should attack Pakistan, people may have voted saying, 

"Yes", and diplomatic options would have been denied a chance.

Ask the same people the same question now, whether we should have gone to war 

with Pakistan immediately after Mumbai 26/11 attack, and they are more likely to say 'No'.

8. Media and other agencies can significantly influence the result.

Do we want the owners of media houses to have over-riding influence over us?

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 best as we can, through future Newsletters.

Coming Parliamentary election is one of the best opportunities we have to arrest 

the slide of our great nation from sinking to greater depths. We should not miss this. 

Nor should we make a wrong decision.

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Lastly, please do make it a point to go and vote for BJP and NDA associates who will 

make Modi the PM and retain him in that place for 5 years. And ignore AAP who are

 shooting from the hip. May be they will become more mature over time.In such a case, 

we could always consider them during the 2019 Elections, or even for the State Elections 

in between.

From the Desk of the Organisers of ModiForPM.org

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