Dr. VK Bahuguna

  Seeds of clean and non-discriminatory politics germinate in Uttarakhand By: Dr VK Bahuguna (The writer is former Director-General in the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change)   India is the largest democracy of the world and in modern era barring a few exceptions the rule by democratically elected rulers is the norm in the civilized world. However, the degree of fairness, egalitarism and equality in democratically elected governments is different in different countries depending upon how mature is the society and political leaders are in following the principles of fairness. India is the first nation to spread head the freedom movement from the colonial rulers of British under the leadership of great freedom fighters led by Mahatma Gandhi. After India attained independence in 1947, the new era of freedom movement started world over and all colonial powers British, French, Holland etc left the countries they ruled. Among the galaxy of nations Indian de...