observed that:-
“Keeping in the forefront the proper functioning of democracy, the
principal object of the Act is purity of elections. When, therefore, an
election ... disposal of an election petition is to
sustain the purity of parliamentary democracy. The concept of purity of
democracy has been emphatically stated in Rameshwar
have immediately similar legislation on the subject to keep the springs of democracy and administration reasonably pure and unsullied and before it is too late ... Gokhale is that nothing could be more corruptive in a democracy than to permit industrial or commercial concerns to contribute funds to a political party
combated, it is likely to undermine the very foundations of our democracy and the principles which sustain it. With this object, an assurance was given ... defections for reasons of office and other considerations from causing harm to democracy. Its proposed solution is to bar Members of Parliament and State Legislatures
been
referred to
Q. Conclusions 113
3
A. Introduction
In a parliamentary democracy where human rights are
placed on a high pedestal and a rights ... provisions
in many a sphere, the duty of parliamentary committee in various
democracies and also certain statutory provisions of the Indian
Evidence
rule of law and for maintenance of truth and functioning of democracy in the local body elections expected to be conducted under the superintendence, directions ... thereby, a public interest litigation is maintainable. It was also submitted that democracy being the basic structure of our Constitution, periodical free and fair election
Commissions recommend
that election system should be overhauled and drastically changed
lest democracy would become a teasing illusion to common citizens
of this country ... influence of tainted money and physical force of criminals do not
make democracy a farce - Citizen's fundamental 'right of information'
should
corruption. However, despite this heavy
mandate prescribed by our Constitution, our Indian democracy, which
is the world's largest democracy, has seen a steady ... politics and the
entrenchment of corruption at many a level. In a
democracy, the people never intend to be governed
by persons who have criminal
namely that Clause (b) of para 2 is destructive of the parliamentary democracy and the federal structure, the two basic features and paras ... para 2 is that its provisions are destructive of the parliamentary democracy and the federal structure, the two basic features of the Constitution
that:
8 "a right to elect, fundamental though it is to democracy, is,
anomalously enough, neither a fundamental right nor a common law
right ... Debi Ghosal that a right to elect, fundamental
though it is to democracy, is neither a fundamental right nor a common
law right, but pure
wherein it was stated that it was required to be
understood that democracy based on adult franchise, is part of the basic
structure ... Constitution. There could, therefore, be no doubt that
democracy is a basic feature of the Constitution of India and democratic
form of Government depends
