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No individual should be allowed to accumulate any f maximum amenities are physical wealth not provided to common BESIDES POLITICAL DEMOCRACY without the clear people, no doubt there will n March 5, the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the Lok Sabha elections permission or I 2014 to be held in 9 phases beginning April 7 and end on May 12. This time the expected voter approval of the be progress in society, but there strength is a staggering 81.45 crores (814.5 million) an increase of 10 crores (100 million) new collective body. O will always remain the scope for eligible voters in 543 constituencies across the length and breadth of India and for the first time people would 2. There should be imperfection in future. What have the option of 'None of the above' if they do not like any candidate in their constituency. This also will be maximum the longest and the costliest general election in the history of the country with the Election Commission utilization and constitutes both the minimum estimating that it would cost the exchequer Rs 3,500 crores. This however does not include the cost of security rational distribution requirements and the maximum deployment to cover the elections, which is going to be massive and would include Central and State Security of all mundane, forces who would take special care for disturbed and Maoist infested areas. According to the Centre for Media supra mundane and amenities should be ever Studies political parties are expected to spend 30,500 crores (about US$ 5 billion) in the election. This is three spiritual increasing. If the maximum times the amount spent in the previous election and is the world's second highest after the US$ 7 billion spent potentialities of the on the 2012 Presidential elections in USA. On May 16 the votes would be counted and all results would be universe. amenities of meritorious people declared the same day and the new political dispensation would be set to rule for the next five years. PROUT's founder Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar while discoursing on Economic Democracy in Calcutta 3. There should be become excessively high, then in July 1986 said, “The type of democracy prevalent in India is also political democracy, and it has proved to maximum the minimum requirements of be a unique system of exploitation. The Indian constitution was created by three groups of exploiters: the utilization of the British imperialists, the Indian imperialists and the ruling parties representing the Indian capitalists. All the physical, common people should be provisions of the Indian constitution were framed keeping an eye on furthering the interests of these metaphysical and immediately increased. For opportunists. Just to hoodwink the masses, the people were granted the right of universal suffrage. Millions of spiritual Indians are poor, superstitious and illiterate, yet the exploiters, through such practices as making false potentialities of unit example, if a person with special promises, intimidation, gross abuse of administrative power and vote rigging, repeatedly win over the and collective body qualities has a motor bike and an electorate. This is the farce of democracy. Once they form the government, they get ample opportunity to of the human indulge in rampant corruption and political tyranny for five years. In the subsequent elections the same is society. ordinary person has a bicycle, repeated”. He goes on to add, “This type of political opportunism has been going on in India since independence ... 4. There should be a there is a balanced adjustment. political parties have maintained that in order to attain economic parity with the industrially developed proper adjustment But if the person with special countries of Europe, India must follow the democratic system. To support this argument, they cite the amongst these examples of America and Great Britain or China and the Soviet Union. The political leaders urge the physical, qualities has a car, then we electorate to vote in their favour at election time so that the country's starving masses can reap the benefits of a metaphysical, should immediately try to developed economy. But once the elections are over, the exploitation of the common people continues mundane, supra unabated in the garb of political democracy, and other areas of social life are completely neglected. Today mundane and provide the common people with millions of Indian citizens are being deprived of the minimum requirements of life and are struggling to spiritual utilizations. motor bikes. procure adequate food, clothing, housing, education and medical treatment, while a handful of people are rolling in enormous wealth and luxury”. 5. The method of Besides political democracy, economic democracy is a must where economic and political power is utilization should - Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar bifurcated. PROUT advocates political centralization and economic decentralization. Political power is vary in accordance vested with the moralists, but economic power is vested with the local people. The principal goal of the with the changes in administration is to remove all the impediments and obstacles which prevent the economic needs of the time, space and people being met. PROUT'S slogan: “To end exploitation we demand economic democracy, not just political person and the democracy” must be followed in letter and spirit. utilization should be This is what is required and not another expensive election to form a new government to continue as of progressive before for another five years. For this it is essential to bring required changes in the Constitution of India to nature. guarantee minimum requirements of life to all members of society. 04 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 05 PROUT From the Editor's P R O G R E S S I V E U T I L I Z A T I O N T H E O R Y Desk Fundamental Principles : ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY 1. No individual should be allowed to accumulate any f maximum amenities are physical wealth not provided to common BESIDES POLITICAL DEMOCRACY without the clear people, no doubt there will n March 5, the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the Lok Sabha elections permission or I 2014 to be held in 9 phases beginning April 7 and end on May 12. This time the expected voter approval of the be progress in society, but there strength is a staggering 81.45 crores (814.5 million) an increase of 10 crores (100 million) new collective body. O will always remain the scope for eligible voters in 543 constituencies across the length and breadth of India and for the first time people would 2.