Reality Wrapped up in the Obscurity

Nowadays especially during the election campaign our politicians who are mostly our past rulers often excuses themselves for their inability or insensitivity for containing sky-rocketing prices of essential commodities as well as for plummeting the prices of our farm produces as an international or global phenomenon in which the government of the day has nothing to do with. It shows how despicable and misconstrued is the concept of democratic accountability in our practicing democracy. Remember, at least, one thing that we are all living in a world which is getting more and more globalised and thereby integrated to each other. In other words, a country like India, by and large, is today a major part of a single entity called global economy rather than like a closed economy of the last century. It implies that the day to day business of any economy has a direct bearing on the rest of the economies of the globe. Thus, today our political leaders can no longer hide themselves under the excuse that the development in the domestic economy is the effect of the developments outside. Instead, our rulers must build adequate security measures to protect the domestic economy through a mutually acceptable framework to all stake holders at the global level. For instance, if the prices of the farm produces in the domestic market are at low level because of the unfettered import from rest of the world, our political leaders cannot afford to remain idle simply attributing this to global factors. Instead, our rulers must engage with the leaders of other countries through multilateral institutions like WTO and arrive at such decisions which will ensure that domestic farmers are protected from the vagaries of the market. This calls for courage and commitment to the people who have elected these leaders. Thus, in this highly globalised world, any attempt on the part of our politicians as  extensively observed  to pass the buck to international context smacks of complete ignorance of the on-going geo political dynamics of the contemporary world  which in no way can be tolerated from our potential rulers. In other words, the rulers of each country in a globalised world must not only have a country–specific perspective but an international or global perspective also. Then only the challenges brought about by globalization can be effectively addressed and opportunities presented by globalization can be tapped. We, the people of the each and every country especially people of poor and developing countries, must realize this fact in the backdrop of their important democratic exercises like general election to elect their government.