India, Sept. 8 -- Every election is a lesson and a message for political parties; no victory or defeat is permanent. In a democracy, the insanity of hijacking the power of the people's mandate through arrogance and anarchy is harmful for democratic dignity
The electoral system of India, the world's largest democracy, is stuck in a maelstrom of political slugfest. Those who have been "democratically defeated" through votes are at the peak of their "chaotic craze to calumniate" the electoral system of the country from the Parliament to the streets. Why has the Election Commission, which has created a record of successfully conducting 18 Lok Sabha general elections and a number of elections to legislative assemblies of various states and unio...