Applied Philosophy Of Anekanta: 5.8 Change in Politics And Anekānta

In the present day political atmosphere, the country is facing problems in various states. The country is being badly affected by LTTE, Naxalities, Maoists and attack on Parliament of India, terrorists who plan serial bomb blast based on violence and so forth. We are also witnessing, excessive centralization of political powers in the hands of a few and a large number of able and efficient people are deprived of it, resulting into an all-round deterioration of society. Politics, which is meant to give a good system and order in society, in the present days has unfortunately become the center of creating disorder. In other words, politics has been completely criminalized. Booth capturing, vote rigging and ‘might is right’ this saying, is playing a free role during elections. If government is not ready to remove such corrupt practices for a better order of society, then people, especially, anekāntavādīs will have to take lead and not to participate in voting. The violence pattern then will be automatically corrected. The participation and selection of man of anekāntic perspective in the political field is the need of the hour to cope up with the present day problems and for planning better destiny of the nation. Basically the political field is the good application of anekānta where opposing parties sit together and try to arrive at fruitful solutions.

Anekāntavāda teaches, to respect not only one party manifestos but also to respect manifestos of other parties. To respect manifestos of other parties means to understand the outlooks, missions and the propaganda of other parties. The members of the two opposing political  parties sit together on one platform peacefully and discuss freely is the outcome of philosophy of co-existence.^[1] Incidents such as civil-wars, rebellion, street-demonstrations, communal riots, and quarrels in parliament are evidences of anti-democratic outlook. It is also anti-anekāntavād. Anekāntavād and democratic outlook stand on the policy that the rights of all rival parties need to be respected.