Should Basic "GK" test be mandatory for politicians
Recently Anurag Thakur, BJP MP, made a bizzare statement claiming lord Hanuman went to space first, Not neil Armstrong (It's neither actually).
My question is, Apart from one's religious beliefs, why do politicians say a lot of dumb things and get away with it. Should a basic GK test be mandatory for politicians?
Also do you think schools in India should be radically secular (No prayers, No teaching of religious texts as "objective facts" (They can still teach them, but just as a mythology or just for values, Not deriving any scientific stuff from them))?
This also reminds me of how TN state board books claimed "Kumari kandam Theory" is objectively true (Basically a giant stretch for land below India's southern tip up until Maldives). I have also seen CBSE have removed evolution in science books (not sure how true it is) and also we have bunch of professors and people claiming medical benefits in cow dung. Also in Pakistan's Science books I have seen outright naming Evolution as "pseudo scientific" and disproved theory.
How long we are going to cater religious beliefs and stay behind? And why do such "dumb" people get to politics. I honestly believe a Bachelor's degree and basic knowledge test should be mandatory for contesting in elections.
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It’s not so much about the education level of the politicians, but about the education level of the voting public.
Less than 15% of Indian population have Bachelors degrees or higher. About 20-25% are completely illiterate and can’t even write their own names. Rest of population have attended a only few years of school.
And all those people vote. So whom do you think politicians will cater to in their statements, the scientific ideas of the university educated 15%, or the religious & mythological beliefs of the rest 85% of voters?
Politicians will say whatever the vast majority of the voters want to hear, even if they themselves don’t personally believe in those statements. That’s the nature of politics.
So to answer your question - how long we are going to cater religious beliefs and stay behind? Answer - till the majority of the Indian population becomes highly educated, which will probably be hundreds or thousands of years in the future, or maybe never.
How long we are going to cater religious beliefs and stay behind?
Until the end of human civilization bhai.
If yes, then Rahul Gandhi will not even eligible for gram pradhan elections.