Political Morality
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: November 12 2015 -
The importance of adhering to political morality can be more or less measured by how one stands by certain ideological principles.
Political scientists over the period of time have also noted that all legal norms that govern modern nation states are either qualified or validated by ethics and morality.
In a multi ethnic society like Manipur, there seems to be a deep crisis of political morality as the citizens have not been truly nurtured to believe in the self-liberating notions intrinsic to emancipatory concepts.
The phenomenon primarily stems from the failure to evolve a structural mechanism to represent the self or the collective.
If true democracy has to be sustained and achieved, the idea of social justice directly related to localised contexts and situations are paramount.
Many have felt that there is a crisis of governance in Manipur and the State is turning into a predatory engine sustaining itself for its own existence while distancing from the goals of achieving collective growth.
Yet, the future of democracy in Manipur cannot be discussed in isolation to the larger forces that are operating within the society and at the global level.
With the onslaught of global capital now gradually touching ground, there has been the dismemberment of a core that has failed to adapt to given situations.
For instance, the discourse on development in Manipur has most of the time been tinged with the objectives of reinforcing dependency rather than bringing in measures towards self-reliance.
The discourse consciously or unconsciously has also been centred on reshaping structures based on authoritarian or military perceptions.
The adoption of development paradigm for the State or any of the States in the Northeast region of India distinctly segregates the core and the periphery constituted by the frontiers.
While the process of nationalising the frontiers continues under the influence of global capital, the practice of democracy in a State like Manipur has been confined to amorphous institutional mechanism.
With even more complicated turmoil and heightened sense of contradictions, there has been a situation which can well be termed as ‘low intensity democracy’.
Under such circumstances, the State can only be rescued through the process of revitalizing and recovering political morality for a collective future.
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