🔆 Moral Code of Conduct for Politicians
✅Democracy today is undisputedly the best form of governance that prevails in the world.
✅Giving power to the people to decide their own future has large socio-economic consequences.
✅Since, all citizens cannot rule together, they elect their representatives.
✅These elected leaders channelize peoples‘ grievances and solve their issues through the governmental machinery.
✅Ideally, these representatives are selfless, honest, have integrity, are competent and have high moral values.
✅Only then, can they solve the various diverse issues that plague the society.
✅But, power corrupts the cleanest minds too.
✅Politics has become synonymous with corruption and scams. This affects the overall welfare of millions of people very drastically.
✅Hence, to check these, a moral code of conduct for politicians is necessary.
✅An ideal politician is very hard to find these days. But, during our Indian freedom struggle and during the initial days of our independence, we saw some of the best leaders that this country had produced.
✅Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, C. Rajagopalachari, Rajendra Prasad were a few to name.
✅Since, these people were instrumental in the Indian independence struggle, they had genuine concern about the fate of the country and the fate of its masses.
✅They were all- powerful yet incorruptible. They were honest, had immense influence, but never used it for their own advantage.
✅ All of them were highly educated and were elite, but were empathetic towards poor illiterate majority rural population.
✅Mahatma Gandhi, even though not a politician, was the undisputed leader of the whole of India.
✅ His ideals of truth, non-violence and spiritual strength were impeccable. He was loved by everyone, but never desired to be the Prime Minister or the President.
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