While clarifying the concept of decentralised village self – rule, Gandhiji says that the centralisation of political power is synonymous to violence. He states that a decentralised political system can be regarded in accordance with the ideal of non – violence. Gandhiji emphasized for a village to be made a political unit. This arrangement does not mean that the (such) village will not have any relation with other villages.
These autonomous, self – governed and self – reliant villages will seek help from other villages for their necessities which are beyond the management of a village, and of course, they will do it with cooperation, and similarly, these will also remain ready to help other villages if they are in need. That is to say, that the unmanageable things will be resolved with mutual help and cooperation.
In the form of national state, the country will be a union of free republics. Every village will be orgainised as per the wishes of its residents. Village will hold election for representatives of district administration. In this election, every village will have one vote. District representative will elect provincial administration and provincial representation will elect the president who will be the main executive of the nation.
Gandhiji felt that the implementation of planning of decentralised village self – governance is a cumbersome process, hence, he, in the form of provisional political ideal, envisaged a non – violent democracy.
