Today is the martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. We pay homage to these true sons of mother India. Bhagat Singh was a  great thinker. Even in the young age of twenty-three his ideas on religion, democracy etc. were crystal clear.While reading Bhagat Singh's jail note book I was struck at his concept of democracy. He writes:

Democracy is theoratically a system of political and legal equality . But in concrete and practical operation it is false, for there can be no equality , not even in politics and before the law , so long as there is glaring in equality in economic power. So long as the ruling class owns the worker’s jobs and the press and the schools of country and all organs for the moulding and expression of public opinion; so long as it monopolise all trained public functionaries and disposes of unlimited funds to influence elections , so long as the laws are made by ruling class and the courts are presided over by members of that class, so long as lawyers are private practitioners who sell their skill to the heighest bidder and litigation is technical and costly , so long will the nominal equality before the law be a hollow mackery.

In a capitalist regime the whole machinary of democracy operates to keep the ruling class monority in power thrugh the sufferage of working class majority, and when the bourgeois goverment feels itself endangered by democratic institutions, such institutions re often crushed without compunction.

Really thought provoking definition of democracy.