Jammu, April 20 -- Yes election is the maha-festival of democracy and it should be celebrated in a civilized responsive and desirable manner. But then it has also become a season and time of desertions, homecomings and the like. Elections or electoral democracy ceases to have meaning without elections and we can say that democracy sans elections is no democracy at all. It may be any other form of government but not democracy in true sense.

Therefore democracy ceases to be democracy without elections. This festival of democracy comes after every five years and gives the people who are the supreme power in a democracy, the right and duty to cast vote and elect a government of their choice. The elections should be celebrated with all humility...