Dear members how many of you have heard about Gangadas and Yamunadas?

Why 2-3 times a week ? Why not every hour ?

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:

Everyone has freedom to change his political party and believe in a different ideology. It is not a bad thing, provided it does not happen 2-3 times in a week.

I feel that once voted to power under a certain party an MP or an MLA should not be allowed to change his affiliation mid way.If he or she is dissatisfied, he or she should resign which is what any other employee would do..And in politics , there are other people and their trust vote needs to be considered..

There are lot of "Jumping Jacks " in the  political parties. There is a move to stop this immoral act if A MP or MLA of a party joins another party without resigning.

usha manohar wrote:

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:

Everyone has freedom to change his political party and believe in a different ideology. It is not a bad thing, provided it does not happen 2-3 times in a week.

I feel that once voted to power under a certain party an MP or an MLA should not be allowed to change his affiliation mid way.If he or she is dissatisfied, he or she should resign which is what any other employee would do..And in politics , there are other people and their trust vote needs to be considered..

Of course time is an important factor.  Quitting a party during midway of an elected term is a kind of cheating the people who have elected him and entrusted him with some great responsibilities.  

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:

Everyone has freedom to change his political party and believe in a different ideology. It is not a bad thing, provided it does not happen 2-3 times in a week.

I feel that once voted to power under a certain party an MP or an MLA should not be allowed to change his affiliation mid way.If he or she is dissatisfied, he or she should resign which is what any other employee would do..And in politics , there are other people and their trust vote needs to be considered..

Of course time is an important factor.  Quitting a party during midway of an elected term is a kind of cheating the people who have elected him and entrusted him with some great responsibilities.  

It certainly does and once they realise that their action would not go down well with the masses who have voted them to power, they may become responsible in choosing an ideological party rather than make an opportunistic move to further their self interests ..

usha manohar wrote:

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:

Everyone has freedom to change his political party and believe in a different ideology. It is not a bad thing, provided it does not happen 2-3 times in a week.

I feel that once voted to power under a certain party an MP or an MLA should not be allowed to change his affiliation mid way.If he or she is dissatisfied, he or she should resign which is what any other employee would do..And in politics , there are other people and their trust vote needs to be considered..

 

The people voted to a particular party when see their candidate enjoying in other party feel cheated. 

suni51 wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:

Everyone has freedom to change his political party and believe in a different ideology. It is not a bad thing, provided it does not happen 2-3 times in a week.

I feel that once voted to power under a certain party an MP or an MLA should not be allowed to change his affiliation mid way.If he or she is dissatisfied, he or she should resign which is what any other employee would do..And in politics , there are other people and their trust vote needs to be considered..

 

The people voted to a particular party when see their candidate enjoying in other party feel cheated. 

Exactly ! there should be some discipline and ideology when you decide to join a party and win a vote of confidence ..

suni51 wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:

Everyone has freedom to change his political party and believe in a different ideology. It is not a bad thing, provided it does not happen 2-3 times in a week.

I feel that once voted to power under a certain party an MP or an MLA should not be allowed to change his affiliation mid way.If he or she is dissatisfied, he or she should resign which is what any other employee would do..And in politics , there are other people and their trust vote needs to be considered..

 

The people voted to a particular party when see their candidate enjoying in other party feel cheated. 

 

Breach of trust.. Back stabbers of Democracy.

In my views that is the limit of opportunism and no political party is willing to change the trend. They all keep trying getting support of other parties' members either directly or indirectly. The parties go to any extent for getting support even from parties/members which have no similar ideologies (although ideology is an odd word while talking about Indian politicians) 

Exactly. The very name of the thread says all about Changing colors in par with the trends. Opportunism is the staple food of a politician. They look towards.those political parties which are in power or likely to come into power. That very moment these migrating  Birds in to those parties shedding away both shame and their respective party's dress. A shameless lot indeed. And this has become a trend in the newly formed Telugu states in AP.

A politician has the right to change his ideology if he feels the desire to do so. He also has the right to join anothervpolitical party if it becomes necessary to do so due to many reasons. When he offers himself for elections again is the time when voters can reelect him or reject him. An elected representatives not a slave of the voters. After all don't voters change their liking. 

Changing of the ideologies and parties are certainly the prerogative of politicians.   To say elected representatives are not the slaves of the people who elected them is something beyond me. I'm of the opinion that People are final and elected representatives owe their explanation to the people who elected him. After all peoples representatives will not drop from the Blue.

Elected representatives  are supposed to represent the community that elects them. They are free men and can follow any party or join any party, but we can have a system of recall in case a representative lets his constituency down. 

The electorate should be armed with the weapon of "Recalling" their representative if he fails to rise up to their expectations. After all every voter who voted for a person will pin his hopes on their representative and  will  hope he will do something good for them.

A person has every right to change his political affiliations but an elected candidate should do that after resigning from the membership/party and seek reelection before joining another party.   

vijay wrote:

A politician has the right to change his ideology if he feels the desire to do so. He also has the right to join anothervpolitical party if it becomes necessary to do so due to many reasons. When he offers himself for elections again is the time when voters can reelect him or reject him. An elected representatives not a slave of the voters. After all don't voters change their liking. 

 

Sure but an elected member on a party ticket cannot do it as it is against rules. He can change party any number of times if it suits him or his party does not treat him well. But he must resign first.

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:The so called freedom of an elected candidate to change his party at any time, is not real freedom at all; but it is the misuse of freedom. If they do so without resigning from the party, they are befooling the community of voters who trusted him for a good cause. Freedom has also got its own sanctity.

Undoubtedly Jumping the parties by the elected representatives of the people is an act of befooling the people who voted him resting faith and trust. It is breach of trust.. Breach of trust is one word that you wont find in the lexicon of these chameleons.

RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:The so called freedom of an elected candidate to change his party at any time, is not real freedom at all; but it is the misuse of freedom. If they do so without resigning from the party, they are befooling the community of voters who trusted him for a good cause. Freedom has also got its own sanctity.

Both democracy and freedom of action come with a price since one should not infringe on other persons democracy or freedom and this applies to the elected representatives as well...

Elected representatives owe an explanation to the people who elected them. Simply jumping from the party from which they were elected to another party amounts to an offense. They should resign first and fight a an an election. There is no other way..