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The politician, in any country is a class apart from all others but, the Indianpolitician is a class apart even from the politicians of the world. It would bevery interesting to study why this class is a class by itself.

In most cases, the reason is not far or difficult to seek. The reason is simpleand straight. He is the person who at one time was on some lower strata of the hierarchy of the social set up and, once he becomes a politician, he has a magical rise to the highest rung of the same hierarchy - as, now it is he who rules the country.

So, this individual who was once a part of the general public having attained the top slot in society is bound to develop a sort of a web around himself. Through this web people may be able to see him but they will not be able to touch him.

This web is created by him and, is added to by his cronies who wish to take advantage of him and his position. This situation of a politician being someone highand mighty exists everywhere in the world but the position in India achieves ahigher rank than politicians of the world because he is also there to wind up the work for the people and start looking after his own interests as, he may losethe position any time and any day.

The special characteristic of the Indian politician is that, though he is on thehighest rung of the social order but, unlike other politicians of the world, heis also on the lowest rung of discipline and character. It is this feature of t

he Indian politician makes him a class apart from the politicians of the world.

The Indian politician is a bundle of complexes, serving the society on paper andserving himself in all reality - he, being elected to serve the people he confines himself to serving himself and his posterity. It is this attitude of the class that makes it a hateful and unique class apart from all others.

It is a fact known very well even to the uneducated masses of India that, the politician remembers his people and his constituency just about once in five years, when he goes there to beg for votes. When the election of the State or the Centre is round the corner, the politician is seen giving verbal proof of his lovefor the people.

Once the work of reaching the position is complete, he never looks back, to peepinto the condition of the people who helped him get the chair. Besides this extreme selfishness, the Indian politician is one who is most corrupt in the breedof politicians of the world. He can do anything at all to achieve his personal objectives.

I can say in very clear words that, the Indian politician has and is sucking thelifeblood of the Indian people. He is eating into the resources and income of the country to fulfill his own ambitions and objectives and pave the way for hiscoming generations. His existence for his constituency comes into the limelightonly when, once again he has to go to the people for their votes, for the next assignment for another five years of his own prosperity.

With the career of a politician becoming so very lucrative and paying, more andmore people are getting interested m this profession, and more and more political parties are being born. Even with the mushroom growth of political Parties, the service of the people is nowhere in the agenda of these new or old politicians.

The latest trend of the nexus the politician businessman and the bureaucrat makes Indian politician a very strong entity to reckon with has, in this nexus the combined strength of money power and muscle power, what more can anyone aspire for?

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Politics of IndiaIndia is the largest democracy in the world. India has the biggest number of people with franchise rights and the largest number of political parties, which take part in election campaign. In the 1996 national elections, almost 600 millionpeople voted and an average of 26 candidates competed for each of the 543 territorial constituency seats.Elections are held at different levels. The two major election levels are at national level, after which the national government is established and at state level after which the state government is established. Elections are also held forcity, town and village councils.There are different political issues in Indian politics. Some are national leveland some regional level. Some communities just demand more economical and social rights for their communities. While others demand more autonomy for their cultures within the Indian states. Some demanded autonomous states within the IndianUnion, while the others demanded to be independent from India.With all its problems India survives as a single state with democratic character. But a number of political problems still exist and remain unsolved in India.

Politics in India takes place within the framework of a federal Westminster-style Parliamentary democratic constitutional republic, in which the President of India is head of state and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government.Nominally executive power is exercised by the President and is independent of the legislature. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two ch

ambers of the Parliament of India, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Federal and state elections generally take place within a multi-party system, although this is not enshrined in law. The judiciary is independent of the executive and thelegislature, the highest national court being the Supreme Court of India. Indiais the world's largest democracy in terms of citizenry.