A Sad Story to Tell

When I wrote the previous post I was hoping that what I have predicted would not happen. Yet unfortunately the things I feared about was welcomed by the recent council elections which was held for the first time in the Maldives. Firstly my impression was that councils were not that necessary at this stage in the Maldives, as it is not some silly game in which we could try trial and error method. Maldives is yet at a very early stage of transforming into a modern society and the available  and willing human resource is not capable of such tasks. On the other hand the Maldivian citizens are new to true freedom of voting and the present results have shown that they are still not even at the adolescent stage in understanding importance and the value of the voting right.

In many islands people who were educated and capable were left behind and people voted for party interest without taking their own freedom and right of voting into consideration. People have hardly thought of the responsibility they were offering the young and uneducated folks who have just reached 18, according to final results of the council elections in some islands. Some have already started showing their childish acts like taking photos seated at the island office and posting on face-book , though they have officially not been assigned the tasks yet.

As I have predicted even in Male' the capital city where most people are supposed to be with more awareness they voted in favour of film actors while the educated people were just ignored. It is no harm in choosing a film actor who is well-educated but the one an only educated film actor in Maldives does not live in Maldives any more. Thus the people in Male' voted for two film actors which means even one of them could be the Mayor as well. Hence we can imagine the future they can show with lack of background, education and experience.

This is certainly a sad story for the future of the country.Hope that things somehow become favourable for the country. Politics is essential for the growth of a nation but every small family cannot establish a system like what we have in most developed western countries. It may not even be suitable.

Evil Side of Politics

Politics is an important part of any human society. It is an essential tool for the proper management , sustenance and development of a society. Yet when politics take the form of a race among power hungry monsters, the society can rarely achieve peace, harmony and progress. It can most possibly lead to anarchy within the society.

When people stop thinking about the after life and completely devote their energy on gaining political power by any means they can hardly bring peace and success for a society. Rather they would establish a system which would quench their personal thirst for power and other desires.

Maldives is currently  walking towards the forming of what we could name as a modern society. The political system currently established is a multi-party democratic system. However, in this gradual process of transforming into a modern society the troubles the country will have to go through is not only what we are experiencing now. It is further to be experienced. Now that Maldivians have decided to step into the system and have stepped in it would be very difficult to go in reverse unless a miracle happens.

Now Maldives is going through elections for local and regional councils. Some people would have now started feeling the sweetness of  fruits   they are about to eat. The bitterness will mainly be enjoyed by the rest of the citizens. This temporary benefits would certainly make them blind and they would feel that they are superior over the other despite the background to which they belonged and their past nature of life. Moreover, the  society would start believing that they are superior and be obedient to them despite the factors mentioned before. The truth is that we are giving our nation and planning for the future of the progress of the nation into the hands of people we can hardly trust. We are sure that they do not possess the qualification and qualities of such a task yet we have become blind to hand over the nation in their hands and we are doing so with a smile. This smile would last until the elected start showing that they are superior. Power comes with responsibility . Power is not a sweet fruit to enjoy. It is sad that most of us hardly think when we hand over power on us to others. 

Governments use this kind of tactics to remain in power and individuals attempt these opportunities whether they know they can fulfill the tasks or not, as they are thirsty for the weight they will feel in their pockets when they achieve such power and the filthy desire for prestige they may enjoy. They hardly know what is management, leadership, responsibility, religious norms and  national goals and targets. Thus this picture helps us to visualize the evils of politics and bitterness of multi-party democratic system. 

Moreover, it is sad to know that several educated and capable people have kept silent thinking that this is not a task for them . They prefer to serve the people with a lesser mind, training and reliability. Thus this makes them too, incapable as saviors of our nation. Further, most unfortunately the ignorant and fun loving society may easily ignore the presence of those who are educated in the elections and choose film actors  with  very minimum educational background, famous athletes and players instead. People hardly know that  this is not a football match.Hence if we cautiously think, we can truly understand that our country may yet not be ready for the kind of management the higher authorities intend to establish. Maldives has a practice of stepping into new things without proper preparation. thus this seems like another step like that.

An Introduction

Maldives has been a group of  with dwellers for more than thousand years and the country has been ruled by kings and queens from different dynasties.

Thus Maldives has a long history of government and politics. Most of the governments in the Maldives in the past were kingdoms or monarchies , though recently the system of government changed and now the country is a republic. Moreover, currently the country practices multi-party system of government. We also call it a democratic form of government though democracy is rather complex term to define right on the spot.

People of the Maldives had been Muslims for more than a thousand years and religious and cultural conflicts are minimum. The main difficulty for the past governments to manage the country was the geographical nature of the country. Currently the transportation system is better than the past though not adequate. Hence the difficulty of managing distant islands is less.

Though the population of the country is scattered to about 200 islands country is managed by one government. Recently a provincial system by dividing the country into seven provinces was begun. In the past Maldives was divided in to atolls for the ease of management. Each atoll had an atoll chief to govern the atoll as a person who represents the governments. Currently after introduction of provincial system a state minister is the head of each province.

Thus the system of government and politics has evolved greatly in the Maldives during the past 50 years , though it remained constant in the same manner before that.