Auditors and an election

After the great Indian "balle(o)t" circus (GIBC) which rolled by in the early part of this year it is now the turn of the Institute of Chartered Accountants to have their triennial exercise. As with the GIBC this has its share of masala, with contestants hosting parties to canvas for votes wherein you have free flowing wine, belly dancers and promises of sharing the powers of office once elected.

In the past 60 odd years since this profession was brought into being by an act of parliament, there has been a lot of water that has flowed under the proverbial bridge(global trust bank, loan melas, satyam, MCD etc). But what has amazed me this time around is the amount of money being flashed around and the willingness of some to be hypnotised by the same. The more one sees a democracy the more one feels disenchanted that money rules (obama - fallen prey to money - cannot get any of his stated policies rolling and when the dust settles down on this "postponed" crisis the rich would have gotten richer and the poor well they would be dead i guess!!) or brute force (mayawati - an IAS officer thought it better to commit suicide rather than resign?).

Maybe the process of democracy has to be reviewed and a better system wherein there is a continuous appraisal of the elected needs to be constructed? One starting point of appraisal is a report on how every "petition" by the electorate was disposed and in what time frame and how the affected vote on the resolution of the issue agitated in the petition. readers are encouraged to expand on this.