How to choose Next Prime minister of India?

One of the beauty (or problem) of Indian democracy is that the people of the country can not directly choose their Prime Minister (or President). This system was perfectly fine after independence when there was only one major national political party, Indian National Congress. This system continued to work till 1990s when we saw emergence of regional parties. Regional parties started getting more seats than any national party. It seems that the regional parties can understand the regional demands and the psyche of the voters better than the national parties.

But this has created a fundamental problem for the system. How to choose the Prime minister of the country. Since the voters have no direct say in choosing the prime ministerial candidates, it is the parties who have to choose among many hopefuls. List is very long from Lalu yadav to Mayawati to Sharad Pawar to Narendra Modi to LK Advani to Man Mohan Singh to Devegoda. There are many more. But we can have only one Prime minister at a time in the end. As it is expected no single party will have majority in the Parliament and next government will be formed of some odd alliances as we have seen in last decade.

Any party who will get their leader, or a loyal man to the leader, will have to make many compromises in the cabinet structure and in the decision making in next five years assuming the government will complete its 5 years term. But this system is jeopardising the power of the government to implement policies that we might need for the development of the country in favour of more polpulist policies. And since no one is full command, everyone wants to earn as much as possible from every source. It can be giving contract to their relatives to taking bribes for selecting tenders to anything. But the PM does not have much power to stop them because they need to run the government with their support. This has happened with the Mayawati and Mulayam Singh in 5 years. Well, Both of them do not have any proper source of income but they have Crores in their bank accounts and investments.

I want to ask you the reader of this post whether you want change in the system? Would you like to choose your Prime minister directly and give more power to the PM? I personally believe that this is the way forward. And this will help more efficient and charismatics people to come into the politics because the current corrupt and muddy party based systems stops many people to enter the politics.