Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Is this Democracy?

I have heard many institutional as well as national leaders claiming to be Democratic Leaders. It is then so interesting to hear how they describe democracy. What I heard most recently from an institutional leader was that "I am democratic as I always go with the majority". It was a point of critical and deeper analysis for me. Is that all what democracy and democratic leadership means...to go with majority??? Is it so? that a true democrat never thinks of a minority opinion even it is a wiser one? I think this definition of Democracy is very limited."I asked my friend google to give me a definition and it gave me a definition as following 
"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."
I then started looking for institutional democracy and could not find anything that I could give here for ready reference. Ok I stop this blog  here and see what you all have to tell me regarding Democracy; Democratic Approach and Institutional Democracy. Just to give you a deeper thought I refer to what Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was saying to the British Govt. Wasn't it about including a minority into decision making or giving them the right to chose for themselves ... So was it not a democratic demand???
..please give your views in the comments. 

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