Our present legislation system is over 70 years old. In fact, it’s much older as this is practically the same system that was implemented by the British. While laws have been enacted and even the constitution amended, yet the law-making process remains indirect and very far away from the participation of ground-level citizens. The citizens' participation is limited to only choosing a representative once in five years. Issues have very little weight and there are more factors at play. At present, there is no way for citizens to participate in lawmaking directly. This results in the actual needs being ignored and unnecessary laws being created for the political gains of a few selected individuals or groups.

While indirect representation was the need of the time when the system was created and probably the only way to do things, it does not have to be the same anymore. In 70+ years the world and Bharat have changed a lot. A much higher number of people are educated and can contribute positively to the process. Mass media like TV and social media have ensured people are informed and aware of not only the current affairs but also their rights. They have opinions about day to day issues. They have valuable ideas to improve the system. And above all, today’s technology permits a direct inclusion of the citizens in the law-making process.

The world has already responded to changes and some countries allow direct voting on bills. Others have made it possible to introduce bills by public e-petitions which require a mandatory debate by rule-making bodies.

While we are building a new Bharat that uses the latest technology and knowledge, with the additional advantage of our heritage of past knowledge as world guru, ready to compete with any other country of the world, we need to work on citizens’ direct inclusion in political affairs and make the law-making relevant. Therefore we should create a process to seek general public opinion on private petitions and make it mandatory to propose a bill for every petition receiving 5,00,000 or more signatures.

For this, we all should build opinion and as a first step we should send our requests to the speaker of Lok Sabha and Chairman of Rajya Sabha to consider our letters as the first petition to start making the e-petition system formal and create rules for the same.

Given below is a copy of letter I sent. You should send the same as well.