Anna Hazare is performing his Fundamental duties.

Anna Hazare - a super watchdog of democracy and a politician of the politicians - is performing his Fundamental duties.

What none of the licensed watchdogs could do since last 65 years, Anna Hazare did. The most effective ways to strengthen the media's contribution to democracy, and to maintain an ideal relationship between media and society, is to let people access proper information. Which is also essential to the health of democracy. This is done by investigative journalism which refers to forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact social and political life. Investigative journalism ensures that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation and also serves information as a “checking function” by ensuring that elected representatives uphold their oaths of office and carry out the wishes of those who elected them. But even after 62 years of formation of Representative democracy in India, since 1950, India's mass media has failed to achieve it, even to a reasonable standard.

But today, Anna Hazare's fight against corruption has taken him to such a standard that fights to the corridors of power and challenges the government at the highest level. People, the common man and well known personalities alike, are supporting him in the hundreds swelling to the thousands all over India.

After a freedom struggle of about 90 years, we have achieved Independence in 1947 and then India has formed a representative democracy. Accordingly, India has enacted its constitution by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, a constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organisation is governed. India's Constitution came into effect on 26 January 1950. The preamble to the constitution of India reads, "we, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic and ...". Where, a "republic" is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government and a "representative democracy" is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people i.e. a government in which all eligible people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.

India's Constitution guarantees Fundamental Rights to its citizens without presumption or cost of privilege to all human beings under its jurisdiction. Fundamental Rights is a charter of rights and guarantees civil liberties such that all Indians can lead their lives in peace and harmony as citizens of India. These include equality before law, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly, freedom to practise religion, and the right to constitutional remedies for the protection of civil rights.

The Directive Principles of State Policy are guidelines for the framing of laws by the government. These provisions are not enforceable by the courts, but the principles on which they are based are fundamental guidelines for governance that the State is expected to apply in framing and passing laws.

The Fundamental Duties are defined as the moral obligations of all citizens to help promote a spirit of patriotism and to uphold the unity of India. These duties concern individuals and the nation. They too are not legally enforceable.

A politician or political leader is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making where a group of politicians form a political party. A political party is a political organisation that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office, such political party comes into power and forms a government through voting system. Voting is a method for a group or groups of political party, decided by an electorate following an election campaign found in democracies and republics. Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organised. Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state.

However, though it is the duty of media to monitor a government and ensure that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation and also to serve information as a “checking function” by ensuring that elected representatives uphold their oaths of office and carry out the wishes of those who elected them, unfortunately such is not the ideal fact noticeable in India even after 65 years of Independence. Due to illiteracy, poverty and population most citizens of India casts their votes out of ignorance and misinformation and also fails to ensure that the representatives elected by them uphold their oaths of office and carry out the wishes of those who elected them.

Fortunately, India is now blessed to have Anna Hazare as one of India's well acclaimed social activists, and a former soldier in the Indian army, who fights Indian anti-corruption movement, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. The whole India has to learn from Him.

- by Soumendra Nath Thakur

34 years in power - a democratically elected government and the people of West Bengal.

The West Bengal State Assembly Election, 2011 ended 34 years of oppression and political offence. The rule of Left Front government - the longest serving Communist government in the world - is a fact that was noted by the international community. Who is responsible for such oppression and political murders, a democratically elected government or the people the State themselves?

There may be a question whether a crime like murder be termed as “political”. The nature of a crime is distinguished by the motive behind it. Where a political murder is committed to make political gain/objective against a group of persons who hold views contrary to the political party which commits it. The said group of persons may be another political party or simply the common people. But irrespective of the fact whether such offences are committed against a political party and/or to oppress the common people, it should be the duty of the common people - who has power to vote - to raise voice against it. Because, in representative democracy or Indirect democracy, the people govern themselves but they do so by entrusting the entire administration whom they chose by ballots. Also, there should be an effective role of the watchdog of democracy, i.e. the media.

Unfortunately, as it appears to me that. the most of the people of West Bengal were not conscious enough so that they had elected such a biased government for more than 34 years in power and also most watchdogs of the same democracy became so corrupted that they have forgotten to perform their actual duty for which they were supposed to be dedicated to; so that they could have made the people conscious - socially and politically rather such watchdogs are probably motivated by the high paid advertisements more. Obviously this would mean that the very less people here have adequate respect and/or knowledge in the law of the land but unconsciously putting themselves in jeopardy. Therefore, the people were more responsible for such oppression than the then ruling government.

I believe that we should respect our country and the constitution then only we can achieve betterment.
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* People is a plurality of human beings or other beings possessing enough qualities constituting person hood.

* Administrative dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State, and remains politically outside of the controlling state's integral area.

* Freedom is liberty of the person from oppression or slavery - Political independence - Exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority in the performance of a specific action; civil liberty: freedom of assembly.

* Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory.

* A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organisation is governed. These rules together make up, i.e. constitute, what the entity is. When these principles are written down into a single or set of legal documents, those documents may be said to comprise a written constitution.

* Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
* Indirect democracy (Representative democracy): In Indirect democracy, where the people who govern themselves but they do so by entrusting the entire administration whom they chose by ballots. Alternatively, representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people.

* State is an organised political community, living under a government or a political entity forming part of a federal sovereign state.

* Administration is the term as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction.