Indian Kanoon - Search engine for Indian Law

A properly organised minority may secure a sufficientnumber of votes for the individual or the candidate to stayon, until by transfer, retransfer and re-retransfer hefinally secures an absolute majority. That majority will bea misleading and a highly ambiguous majority, in which themajor portion of the country will not be reflected.

I further feel that the machinery necessary fortransfer and retransfer of anybody who gets last on theroll, so to say, of the list of candidates above will beitself causing difficulties, compared to which thedifficulties urged on a previous occasion by the mere forceof numbers does not appear to me to be so great. The latterdifficulty seems to me to be needlessly exaggerated--that200 million, voters voting will make the electionimpossible. The 200 million voters will not all be voting atone place and at one time. That is physically impossible.But 200 million voters scattered, let us say, in 20,000centres and each centre voting its proportion of voters. isnot at all a difficult thing which would rise to the levelof an impossibility. We can, therefore, rule out completelythe question of actual popular representation in the choiceof the head of the State as impossible. Nor is theadministrative machinery in my mind so difficult to provide.If only you look back to the history of representativeinstitutions in this country, at the Centre, or in theProvinces, from only about thirty or forty years ago youwill find that the electorate has, at each change, jumpedeight or ten or twenty times; and that those who had heldthat the mere size of the electorate would make itimpossible to work it have proved false prophets.