At some point we *must* bring about this shift: We *must* insist on a certain level of education to enter politics.
I mean it just doesn't make sense: Lawmakers don't need to be educated while one needs education to practice law?
Plus there needs to be clarity that getting elected in an election means you represent your constituency in the legislative assembly / parliament. This much itself is a huge job if one does it sincerely. How did we start giving portfolios also just on the basis of getting elected?
Portfolios like Economy, Education, Healthcare, Law and Order, Defense, Energy, Foreign Policy, ... need to be handled by specialists. These are extremely big challenges! Domain specialists need to be recruited to manage these portfolios. If there are no such people amongst the elected representatives, then select from the working population, ensure that their employers give them leave, and appoint them on five year contracts.
This is the only rational way to go about things as
far as I can see them.
At an even deeper level, maybe we need to think of paradigms beyond political leadership simply being about the masses electing leaders every five years. Let me try and explain:
Leading a country needs to become a job that one studies for, one is tested for, one is interviewed for, one is periodically evaluated on. More so than leading a company as the stakes are so much higher. So for all political posts at all levels.
Democracy, at least as practiced in India, is set up for failure as staying in power necessarily involves appeasing someone or the other all the time. That's our inertia. That's our dishonesty. That's what erodes us from within.
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