Political Process in India is like aids unless cured, A note on election reforms by J.M.Lyngdoh,Former Chief Election Commissioner of India
SIXTH GUTTA SRI RAMA RAO MEMORIAL LECTURE ELECTORAL REFORMS IN INDIA Mr. James Michael Lyngdoh Former Chief Election Commissioner of India It gives me great pleasure to be here to talk to you on electoral reforms in India, and I thank the Gutta Sri Rama Rao Endowment and the NALSAR University of Law for having me do so. Against the discouraging backdrop of a fundamentalist and acrimonious partition of the subcontinent, a hasty knocking together under one sovereignty of former British-administered provinces and barely assimilated erstwhile princely States, and one of the most outrageously hierarchical societies in the world, India bravely chose a secular, universal adult suffrage democracy to have everyone participate in governance, in preserving an uniquely diverse social ethos, and most of all, in keeping the country together. For most of the last sixty years the Indian constitution has had remarkable success in achieving its objectives. Especially significant is the enthusiastic in...