Civic Vigilance Nurtures Democracy
Yuba Nath Lamsal: Democracy has always been the most desired polity right from the beginning of human civilisation. Democracy is not merely an ideology or system but the process of decision-making for the greater good and interest of the people. Democracy has thus been a modern day’s political lingua franca across the world, which has to do more with public delivery. If regimes and governments fail to deliver and live up to the general expectations of the people, they lose the very essence of democracy. Democracy is, thus, a system of efficient and transparent functioning of the government. However, demagoguery is on the rise in different parts of the world in the name of democracy. Demagogues are trying to take advantage and dividing people in the name of race, nationalism, sex, religion and colour. Democracy is not the system that seeks to divide the people but it rather unites them. Democracy is the pluralist system under which all kinds of ideologies, races, ethnic and religious