RESPONSIBILITY PART II Proportional representation in cabinet 18TH MAY 2014

                             RESPONSIBILITY PART II  Proportional representation in                                                 cabinet - 18TH MAY 2014

Further to the responsibilities envisaged in part I of the posting in this blog, it is pertinent that the expectations of the common man is for good governance and not in proportional representation in the cabinet of regions, religion and caste or age.   This posting is based on the unsavoury discussion in CNN-IBN on 17th May 2014 evening on the subject wherein a lot was made how Muslims did not have enough MPs.   Mayawati, BSP had fielded 19 Muslim candidates in UP but none got elected, though they were a majority in certain constituencies as her calculation of Dalit+Muslims did not click.  Thus people have shown religion or caste does not matter already.   The basic fact that any MP who gets elected with the votes of different people belonging to various religions, caste etc., is also expected to the fair to all those people whether they have voted to him or not.- was totally forgotten in the above discussion. 

If a precedence has been set by representations in the Ministry so for, that should be given up.

Since there will be many more discussions on these lines, it is important to note that people who have specialised in certain areas and their expertise garnered for the better implementation of promises made in manifesto is of utmost importance for the best of governance.   In the name of Representations for States, Religion, caste, language people should not be let down in achieving "Shresta Bharat".   The faith of the people that anybody with a willingness to give his best, in his chosen or assigned responsibility requires to be strengthened in the formation of the cabinet.   The performance on these lines also should set a trend and bring the confidence of the people, that a government can deliver and ministries are to be represented by appropriate people for the purpose.   In the coming years, people should say more on the performance of the Minister, than to point out that the Minister's origin and to trace his past.

A healthy trend of fielding candidates of irrespective of religion, caste in future also will follow only when people experience good governance irrespective of the candidates religion and caste.   The performance of a person should be the sole criteria in the minds of electorate and towards this end, the parties in power and  are not, should weed out unwanted persons, with proven record of criminality.  Parties which solely depend on region/ religious and caste would  give way for parties who are truly secular. Unfortunately, the word "Secular" has been the casuality all these days and the faith that an elected representative is beyond all these is to be proved by actions. 

The new government will be doing a great service to the people of this country, by choosing the right ones for the right jobs and they excel in their assigned portfolios and prove this nation that when it comes to governance, proportional representation on any basis, is not a criteria.