In India, our Constitution is supreme and is above any religion, caste or politics; however, we are instilling wrong notion in the minds of public that Political parties are beyond and above Constitution. It’s very sad to say that even after 70 years of Independence, our MPs and MLAs failed to correct / oppose this notion.
Political Parties Whip is inherited from British Colonial Rule; it wasn’t part of Indian Constitution. The elected members (MPs) of the 8th Lok Sabha blindly voted to pass 52nd amendment to our Constitution and brought anti defection law in 1985. Because of these rules and acts, Indian MPs and MLAs became slaves to their respective political parties and their party high commands, which is unconstitutional and unacceptable.
If we notice, MPs and MLAs sworn in by stating “I do swear in the name of God solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established and that I will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India.” As per Indian Constitution, Indian Parliament is a constituent assembly, which means that all the members should act with their freewill without any influence. MP or MLAs association with a political party is their private affair, like a club membership or a satsang or religious belief; they can’t carry forward these private affairs in to the Parliament or Assembly. But if we look at the current situation, MPs and MLAs are being bound to party whips and are scared to vote against their political party’s ill wills with the fear of anti-defection laws.
Constitution of India has vested more powers to the President of India, but 42nd (1976) and 44th (1978) amendments to the Article 74 downgraded his/her status and made the honorable President of India as voiceless, powerless, choice less and made him/her a mere constitutional head (a rubber stamp for the name sake); he/she just gives a nod to the cabinet’s decision even though it is not in the overall interest of the citizens of India. Respective political party heads are controlling their fellow party workers, MPs and MLAs; and also using them to full fill their ill wills; appointing their puppets for President of India chair, and because of such acts they further downgraded our President’s stature. Political parties or its owners or its high command shouldn’t have any role in Presidential elections, but in reality, they are dictating the presidential elections; this is pathetic and totally unacceptable.
According to our Constitution (Article 58), any citizen of India who completed 35 years of age can contest in the Presidential Elections; but our Political party heads brought Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act in 1952 and blocked ordinary citizens from contesting by adding a clause that the nomination form must be accompanied with signatures from at least 10 electors as proposers and at least 10 electors as seconders. Further, in order to block even small political parties that are mushrooming in this country, from contesting in Presidential elections, major Political parties used President of India to issue an Ordinance on 5th June, 1997 and further amended Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act; they increased proposers and seconders number from 10 to 50, which means we need 50 proposers and 50 seconders to file a nomination for Presidential elections. All this has happened at that time to block an independent candidate, former Chief Election Commissioner Mr. T. N. Sheshan from 1997 Presidential Election; Seshan gave nightmares to all political parties from 1990 to 1996. Seshan didn’t give up despite the hurdles and contested but lost in 1997 Presidential election. Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act is unconstitutional and it must be abolished. Due to the above cited reasons, our democracy is heading in the wrong direction. I respect and adore all former Indian Presidents personally, but I believe that they all failed to stop this malice. As responsible citizens of India and as elected representatives of your constituency, you all have a responsibility to change this. Please cast your vote wisely and elect such a figure as President of India, who can standup to the challenges and bring back our nation into right track; and help to establish the true democracy in India as defined in the Constitution of India, by our forefathers.
At a global level, despite being the largest democratic nation on this earth constituting 17% of world’s population, we still don’t have proper representation in UNO. The UNO itself isn’t functioning based on democratic principles but being controlled by war thirsty nations, and we are acting to their tunes though it shouldn’t be the case. Communism failed due to indolence while Capitalism is failing due to selfishness and greediness, hence, democratic nations shouldn’t follow either of these concepts as they don’t fit our ideology. All countries are increasingly spending their money on defense budgets rather than development. We should lead this world to unity and promote “live and let others live in peace”. There is a great disparity between poor and rich. Middle class is running behind the mirage to live comfortably; in this process we are becoming money minded and dying in unrest; we lost our peace and looking up in the air for some miracle to happen and fix all the problems in India. We are a youthful nation at this moment and after 30 years, majority of our citizens will become old; we must sustain, strengthen and revolutionize our systems in the coming 5 years, if not our dear nation will lose its esteem; it will ruin the entire nation and it will affect the future generations, who will be treated as stray dogs. We are at eleventh hour, we need to hurry up and do the right thing.
To enlighten fellow citizens of India, I Vishnu Alluri, born citizen of India and 50 years old, coming forward to contest in the coming 2017 Presidential Election. I neither belong to any Political party / Organization nor sympathizer to any Political party / Organization. As per the Constitution of India, I am eligible to contest, but as per the current Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act I need 50 electors to support me as proposers and 50 electors to support me as seconders. Hence, I am humbly appealing and requesting in public and trying to reach all of you (MPs and MLAs) through my blog ( http://vishnualluri.blogspot.com ) and emails. If you are pleased to support me, then please click on the following link and fill the details prior to sending to me @ (visalluri@gmail.com).
Vandemataram.
Thanking You,
Vishnu Alluri
Vishnu Alluri
Dear fellow Citizens of India,
If you think that I am a good candidate to become President of India, then please request your respective MPs and MLAs to propose me and vote for me.
Click on the following to get contact details of your MP’s:
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Rajya Sabha Members.
Click on the following links for more information about:
2017 Indian Presidential Election, Selection Process, Electoral College and Electoral Votes.
Indian Presidential Elections FAQ.
List of Honorable Former Indian Presidents.
2017 Indian Presidential Election, Selection Process, Electoral College and Electoral Votes.
Indian Presidential Elections FAQ.
List of Honorable Former Indian Presidents.
Vandemataram.
Thanking You,
Vishnu Alluri
Vishnu Alluri
