New Delhi, Nov. 7 (ANI): The Vice President of India, M Hamid Ansari, on Wednesday said hard issues are agitating the public mind in different regions of the country have come to the fore and they are seeking acceptable solutions.
Delivering the Annual Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture on 'Physical Integration and Emotional Inconsonance' organized by All India Radio (AIR), he emphasized that it is therefore essential to have a re-look at the basics of our methodology and of the contours within which it has worked.
Ansari listed among these issues of majority and minority, centre and periphery, great and little traditions, rural and urban values, tradition and modernity and concluded that this management of diversity within multiple transitions is a delicate and complex process aggravated by inexorable population growth.
"There are, in addition, problems arising out of Naxalism and insurgency in some areas where the writ of the State runs in name only, demands for a better deal for the States of the Union, as also for tribes, dalits and most of the minorities within them," said Ansari.
"Another is the failure of the State to comprehend the dimensions of change and the resultant failure to respond appropriately, without undue procrastination, and adapt existing mechanisms to newer requirements," added the Vice President.
"This is not to say that genuine disagreements of perception and functioning do not or would not arise; the question is the presence or absence of a will to seek fair and equitable solutions within the ambit of the law," he said.
He opined that one obvious reason for this is the ripening and deepening of the democratic process in the country, the awareness generated by it, and the terms and shape of the dialogue propelled by it.
The Vice President suggested that a beginning can, and must, be made with the loadstar of our national destiny, the Constitution and said: "The need of the hour is to reinvigorate this process, to explore and make better use of existing constitutional provisions; above all, to ensure better delivery. Prescriptions of despair, unwise or impracticable, do not help the process."
Ansari said that a conceptual framework of the degree of sophistication would obviously require a comprehensive endeavour by the State and the society to ensure its implementation on an ongoing basis. (ANI)
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