Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities

  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 7

Old Problems Needs New Rules – Revisiting India's Electoral Reforms

JRF Awardee (Political Science), Delhi, India

Abstract

The word ‘Democracy’ coined in the preamble can be realized if we have the content of free and fair election process in our system. Election is the medium through which the attitudes, values and beliefs of the people towards their political environment are reflected. Elections impart people a government. The elections today more or less have become an ambitious investment venture, where everyone wants to try their hand at. Therefore each and every step of election process is packed with loads of inaptness. Present paper is an attempt to look at the various issues confronting the electoral reforms in India. The paper indicated the total happenings in the present days Electoral exercise and also suggested some remedies for the betterment of the Electoral system.

Keywords

Elections, Democracy, Election commission, Issues, Electoral Reforms