Talk:Politics of India/Archive 1

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User:Koyaanis_Qatsi - The bulk of the prose in this article appears to be copied from http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/intro.htm which is copyrighted material. Do you have permission to copy? technopilgrim 22:47 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Both our copy and theirs are copied from the CIA World Factbook The factbook is a public domain resource.

That is public domain text copie from APPENDIX C: INDIA COUNTRY PROFILE in http://www.nwc.navy.mil/WARDEPT/sapp_rpt.doc . Only the changes to the public domain text can be copyrighted. I'll add a reference to this article to give proper credit. --mav 22:53 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

The bulk of that material is copied from the CIA World Factbook, which is in the public domain. Much of the rest is from the U.S. Department of State pages, which are also in the public domain. Koyaanis Qatsi 22:56 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

thanks for checking & adding CIA links... now I can sleep at night technopilgrim 23:18 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I didn't have to check, I'm the one who added the stuff. ^_^ Anyway, there are many many more that I failed to cite; we had a plan to take care of it but it's been derailed at some point. We should go ahead with it, I think. Koyaanis Qatsi

This page has unnecessary information like country code, parties of India, etc in the middle. The parties of India has already as separate page List of political parties in India And, so I wish such unnecessary info should be removed for clarity. Rrjanbiah 05:37, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I agree with your comment. This is wikipedia. Improve the article by editing what you think should be removed. Just make a note on this page of what you have done and why. Tiles 05:53, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

This link, Questions Left & Answers Right - Article has very specific information on the Indian state of Kerela and does not add to the main Politics of India page. - Vohiyaar 07:14, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

That link does not leave any referrence at all to Kerala. --Soman 10:52, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Corruption

While, being an Indian, I love the picture that this article attempts to present, but frankly, there is absolutely no discussion of corruption. Yes, it mentions corrupt juries but it doesn't stop there. In India, nothing gets done without a greased palm. My father is flying there this week for a family wedding (we live in the US) and he had to have a family member who lives in India bribe a member of of the Indian government to get his bloody visa! Furthermore the Prime Minister and President of India are always out to line their pockets etc. I'd love to make some addendums to the article myself, but I really don't have enough detailed knowledge. I'm a science geek, and I'm actually kind of disappointed that the article on India that is featured today didn't mention corruption at all. EagleFalconn 15:50, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Its wrong to say - "Furthermore the Prime Minister and President of India are !! always !! out to line their pockets etc". It depends on the individual in question. And corruption is usually higher in the lower ranks than at the top level leaders. Not that it is absent - but one cannot simply include all leaders into this category. And currently (2005), both our President (Mr. Abdul Kalam) and Prime Minister (Mr. Manmohan Singh) are excellent examples of how top level leaders are not corrupt. Please refrain from use of such sentences, when in a public domain such as this. [Pai] Aug 08 2005

What's the voting system for India?

The Indian election process and the Elections in India pages don't exactly tell me much, and neither does this one. What specific system do they use? First-past-the-post? Single non-transferable vote? And according to Elections in India, India has a two party system. Which ones? Congress and ____? --Bash 03:51, 15 August 2005 (UTC) Every Indian who is of 18 years or older has been conferred Right to Vote and take part in the elections and Formation of Government through his single Non-Transferable vote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.172.199.242 (talk) 06:36, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Legal System Writeup

The current write-up for the legal system of India is poorly written and takes a very odd approach to detailing it. While comparative jurisprudence is certainly a useful approach to this subject matter, I am puzzled as to the original contributor's tacit endorsement of torture as a 'cultural difference' of some sort -- rather, torture as a means of interrogation is not a priori accepted by all Indians, and certainly not Jains and many Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis and Jews who follow the pacifist principles of the late M. K. Gandhi. Furthermore, many Indian Human Rights Organizations would firmly dispute the statement that "the dynamics of Indian society necessitate (sic) .. 'uncustomary' interrogation methods."

This is the first of many problems in this description of the Indian Justice System. For instance, the bizarre description of Indian prisons as 'not pampering' to prisoners is both unwarranted and out of place. Also, the contributor's opinion on whether the removal of juries from the legal system was a positive step or not has no place in this article. As such, my suggestions are the following: 1) First, this current write-up needs to be deleted - it is amateur, patently inaccurate and ideologically driven. It has no place on Wikipedia (and neither does capitalization as in 'NO WAY' in the article).

2) This section needs its own page, and should NOT (pardon this capitalization -- this is the talk page!) be include in an otherwise decent section on the POLITICS of India. The Judiciary is after all (at least theoretically) supposed to be removed from political influences

3) Someone with greater knowledge on this subject (not I, and clearly not previous contributors) should be encouraged to contribute to a very important article. As a flourishing democracy, with a legal system that many have argued needs reformation (see Gay Rights in India)

4) I think this should stay separate from the Indian Penal Code article and rather, serve as a neutral appraisal of the system on its own merits and in relation to other legal systems in both developed and developing countries.

I have made a preliminary edit, retaining a few valuable facts from this write-up as a temporary measure.

--jackal1291, August 16, 2005

Criticism

The section titled "criticism" carries this line:

"According to Recent polls India is shown to be the second most corrupt nation, after Hong Kong."

Which polls? Is Hong Kong is the most corrupt nation? I am not convinced with this, and I think this might have been vandalism. I plan to remove that line, unless anyone objects. If you do object to the removal, please post references. --ashwatha 06:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I have removed that line, as well as some un-encyclopedic language. I hadn't logged in at the time, so the page history shows the changes as made by an anon. --ashwatha 06:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Criminal MPs

Hey brothers and sisters, i have created a page to inform us about Criminal MPs, including both criminal-turned-MPs and MP-turned-Criminals. Please contribute to the article. I have started it off by adding Sibu Soren, Phoolan Devi etc. Please add more. Thanx Tri400 16:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Structure of Indian Political System

For an article about the politics of India, this one focuses too heavily on the structure of the political system, where one might expect a discussion of actual politics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quantumelfmage (talk • contribs) 23:06, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

i would like to add another name " THAKRE FAMILY",. Cos what i think is we all r INDIANS but not the bloody MARATHA HINDU MUSLIM or CHRISTIANS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.48.17 (talk) 08:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Political Issues

The impact of diversity in India on politics, including division based on religion, region, language, caste needs to be discussed. It is the reason for the success of numerous communal, regional and casteist parties.

The classification of political parties, on the basis of their agenda, policies and focus, as national vs. regional, communal vs. secular, left-wing vs. right-wing, conservative vs. reformist will be useful.

Geeteshgadkari (talk) 07:38, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Important notice

The government section of the "Outline of India" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.

When the country outlines were created, temporary data (that matched most of the countries but not all) was used to speed up the process. Those countries for which the temporary data does not match must be replaced with the correct information.

Please check that this country's outline is not in error.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact The Transhumanist .

Thank you.

INC vs Congress ( I )

Is the Congress faction led by Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan singh officially called Congress (I) or Indian National Congress ? If latter, then when did the electtoral commission approve the "name change" Jonathansammy (talk) 20:45, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Doctors of an Autonomous body under the MoH &F.W Govt. of India are deprived for more than 25 years without promotion or DACP

We, the Indian always respect Indian politics, but some times we are very confused with the politics and buraucratic system. Some homeopathic doctors are working in National Institute of Homoeopathy, kolkata for more than 25 years even some of them retired from service.They are working as Medical Officers and Assistant research officers. There is no promotional avenue as well as they are not getting DACP which is recommended by 5th and 6th Central pay Commission.This is an autonomous organisation under the department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and F.W, Govt. of India.Union Health Minister is the president of Governing body of this Institute.Doctors are applied several times for their promotion or DACP but everything went in vain.There were changed in the ministry time to time with their secretaries and Joint Secretaries but everybody verbaly assured it not to implement it.In the meantime some senior doctors are retired from service. So it is regrate to say that one employee was joined in a post and retired from the same post with same pay scale without poromotion or Dynamic ACP(as recommended by 5th & 6th CPC)after long period of sincere service. Tis is called Indian political ans Buraucratic system.Nobody think about them.If these people get their service benifit then we will be grateful to our system. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shyam sarkar (talk • contribs) 06:33, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Some Medical officers(Homeopathy)working an autonomous Body are deprived 25 years without DACP and waiting for Retirement.

Some Medical officers of National Institute of Homeopathy, kolkata,an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Health and F.W, Govt. Of India,dept. of AYUSH are deprived for 25 years. There is no promotional avenue for them or Dynamic ACP is not implemented there.This dynamic ACP recommended by 5th and 6th Central Pay Commission for isolated post of Group A service.So that government of India implemented it for Central Health Service cadres, CGHS, all IITs, Railway Board, Defence Health Service, Delhi Municipality even some States Health Service. Union Health Minister is the President of Governing body of this Institute but there is no solution for this poor doctors. some of them will retire with in few years. So it is regrate to say that one employee was joine in a post and retiring from the same, it is our India we are proud of our Country!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.67.59 (talk) 11:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

All MPs under 30 in India's Parliament are children of MPs

• How to Get Ahead in India, June 25, 2011, wsj.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.178.120.183 (talk) 08:12, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Map of state governments led by political parties

A lot has changed between 2009 and now and it must be updated to reflect current status — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.186.23.2 (talk) 17:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)