1Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, B. Raghunath A, C & S College, Parbhani, Maharashtra Email: lonarkarpravin@gmail.com
2Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences S.R.T.M University, Nanded, Maharashtra Email: prmodlonarkar@gmail.com
3Department of Public Administration, B. Raghunath A, C & S College, Parbhani, Maharashtra
Online published on 19 October, 2012.
Democracy in India has completed more than 60 years. This period is sufficient to evaluate the working of any system. India is the largest democracy of the world, in terms of population,, but it is matter of analysis where India stands in terms of merit. If we compare the constitutions of different countries, Indian constitution appears to be one of the best. But, in reality, many factors hinders to be the best. So this paper tries to find out what are these factors and what is their behavior. The data for analysis is collected from the election commission and electronic media. The analysis shows that there is a Low turnout in elections, corruption, criminalisation of politics, ridiculous alliances, use of money and muscle power, etc., are adversely affecting on the strength of democracy. The behavior of these factors which is presented in this paper shows the actual health of democracy in India.
Indian democracy: still a long way to maturity
To study the voting percentage in Lok Sabha election.
Assessing the impact of corruption on election process.
To review the alliances in election.
Low turnout for voting, Corruption, Criminalisation, Ridiculous alliances
