Election And Democracy

In a developing society like India, elections play their own role in democracy, Their importance becomes greater because there is great illiteracy and simultaneously there are more than 27 crores of voters who decide the fate of the country for five years. Parliamentary term elections serve as a means of communication between the public end their government. It is a process through which leaders are selected by votes for political office. The event of election provides the public with an opportunity to choose between political alternatives and to a certain limit, in influencing the policies of the political tier. It will not be out of place to mention that election.

It is a policy-making process in a democratic nation. It is so because the opinion of a voter is the deciding factor through crucial, yet it shapes to the kind of government and expresses faith in a particular political ideology. In the context of India, it can be mentioned that only a party which will march towards socialism is gaining the favour of the public. However, elections are having great significance and they are governed by a set of laws to remain clear and fair "Electoral laws are those which govern the process by which electoral preferences are articulated as vote and by which these votes are translated into distribution of governmental authority (typically parliamentary seats) among the competing political parties."