Shift from Democracy to 'Emocracy'—Emotion-Driven Policies Threaten Good Governance
The Vice-President of India, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar, today called for a national debate on the shift from democracy to 'Emocracy, saying, “National debate is required so that we take note of shift from Democracy to Emocracy.
Emotion-driven policies, emotion-driven debates, discourses threaten good governance. Historically, populism is bad economics.
And once a leader gets attached to populism it is difficult to get out of the crisis.
The central factor must be the good of the people, the largest good of the people, the lasting good of the people.
Empower people to empower themselves rather than empower them momentarily because that affects their productivity."
He Said that, " There is emergence of a new strategy, and the strategy is of appeasement or being placatory.
If there is excessive spending on electoral promises, then the state's ability to invest in infrastructure is correspondingly reduced.
This is detrimental to the growth scenario. Election is important in democracy but not the end of it.
I would call upon the leadership of all political parties in the interest of democratic values to generate a consensus that engaging in such electoral promises, which can be performed only at the cost of CAPEX expenditure of the state, must be reviewed.
Some governments that took recourse to this appeasement and placatory mechanisms are finding it very difficult to sustain in power."