Business of Politics

Not much noticed news now a days is the Rajyasabha elections in India where Mr. Vijay Malya is competing and he is contesting with support of political parties.

If you look at the history, business men have been part of India politics, be it Mr. Bajaj, Mr. Anil Ambani. I do strongly support involvement of such business leaders in political debates where it is necessary.

During my stay in Singapore few years back one of the things I learnt about how Singapore government works. It is full of corporate leaders and government exactly works as a corporate office. I was told the Prime Minister himself owned a company as CEO and he bought in best practices to his government as well.

Though in India context I never heard about a business leader talks about any important national issue, however the parliament gives an opportunity and provides a medium to express such things.

I am not sure if things will change in near future with Indian politics, but we can hope that a corporate government style of functioning comes to India where everything becomes efficient.