Electoral Reform, Issues And Challenges In India: A Critical Study

Abstract

This paper has been described the principle, concepts and roll of democracy in democratic country. Government is the fiction of law for running state affairs. Every political parties who achieve the mandates of people then they can made the government. Democracy is the expression of inner conscience of respective people for participating the making to government, Political parties achieve mandates through set up by their wining candidates in the election and election is the process of selection their choice between two or more things in which choose any one. If, in the process of selection involved undue influence, coercion, mistake, fraud and biasness, the result not to be free and fair. In a democracy, sovereignty is vested in the people of that country and through the process of election, people elect their representatives. In order to preserve the sovereignty of the people, democracy and adult franchise, the election process must be transparent, equitable, free and fair. In the case Rambabu Singh Thakur v. Sunil Arora1, Supreme Court directed to ECI through political parties shown criminal history and ground of selecting their each candidate in general election published data upon social media platforms and others print media. This paper highlights problems of election, election processes and reliability of ballot paper, conducting election through EVM and VVPAT.