- I'm, because elections are coming, I'm tweeting
to encouraging people to vote.
- In India?
- In India, I'm saying, in India.
So as a process of that I say, democracy is about
all of us getting together and creating a
a wonderful nation.
This is not about pointing fingers at each other.
Oh there's a whole barrage of comments
saying, what does he know about democracy?
Democracy's about criticising the government.
Democracy's about pointing fingers.
Democracy's about pointing out the mistakes.
So, some very left leaning media
came to me and asked me this question.
I said the one thing, you're married, right?
You go home today, from morning to evening,
you'll be alright.
In the evening, just for two hours, criticise your wife.
For all the small, small things about, she's not okay.
If you pay enough attention, she's not okay
on many things, as every human being is.
You criticise her, 22 hours you appreciate her,
you enjoy her, but two hours you criticise her everyday,
believe me, in 30 days, your marriage will be over.
Is it so or no?
He said yes.
Then why do you think you have to do this to the government?
Once people elect, next five years, you support them.
In every possible way you bolster them.
They're doing something wrong, of course.
But, the day they get elected, if you start criticising,
what are they supposed to do?
At least wait for them to make some mistakes.
So about being Republican, Democrat.
This American culture is unfortunately
spreading to other countries also.
See, just, when I first came to United States,
it's always amazed me, how are you
Republican or Democrat by birth?
This is feudalism, this is not democracy.
Democracy means, whatever happened in the last four years,
you look at it, what they have done is good for you,
good for the nation in which you live or not,
and then make up your mind.
Who should rule for the next four years,
or five years or whatever the term is.
Now no, by birth you have decided because
my father was a Democrat, my grandfather was
a Republican, accordingly I've decided.
This is feudalism, where is democracy?
This is like another religion.
You destroyed democracy.
Democracy has something called a secret ballot.
That means, who you vote, even your family
need not know whom you voted, all right?
But now you already declared from birth,
I'm going to vote only for this party,
no matter what they do.
This is just a feudalism.
I think the 1800, 1900's, the feuds are for
middle America have gotten to the whole of America now.
America needs to rethink if they want democracy.
I'm suggesting this in India,
none of the political parties will like it.
I said, one this is political parties
should not have membership.
They can have office bearers, whatever number
of people they want as people that work for them.
But there should be no national membership
where millions of people are enrolled as members.
Because it's already decided who they're going to vote for.
It's important that every election, every citizen thinks
whether this is good for me and my nation or not.
And according to their own intelligence,
they will thing and they will vote.
Otherwise, there's no democratic process.
So I'm pitching for this, that political parties
must surrender their numbers, this thing,
this should go, there should be no membership.
Because you just formed a new religion.
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