The Role of the Election Commission in Indian Democracy
OBJECTIVE:
The project report will tend to work upon providing the readers an insight into the body called the Election Commission of India. The report will try to formulate a collection of information regarding the establishment of the body, its utility in the country’s political sphere. The report will also bring about the technicalities regarding the same. Like its membership, chairmanship, and about the method of its working. Ailing from that facet the report would be picking up the powers of this body. The status of this body will also be covered by the report. Following with its jobs done in the past and present will be touched upon. The brief inclusion of work would lead us to attaining higher order understanding of the Election Commission and also how far has it been successful in providing the nation, with what it was required to provide. With this introduction the report would act as the blueprint for the Election Commission, with taking up majority of the intricate which aid in its functioning.
INTRODUCTION:
Our country was reared by a constitution which explicitly states India as a Sovereign, Secular, Socialist, Democratic, Republic. To maintain the essence of our supreme provider of law, we need to act according to the words enshrined in it. The topic of the project as states that is Election Commission and its role in dissemination of democracy. Hence we would be focusing upon the democratic front of India and about how it is maintained and kept under momentum by the tracing the Functions done by the Election Commission.
Just as building up of rules will not guarantee an optimum follow up, in the same way just by explicitly putting words in our pre...
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The relationship between cricket and politics is clearly delineated in South Asia from 1880 to 2005 through the easing of the stress between totally different caste members, although the stress mitigated wasn't forever from a religious aspect between the Pakistanis, Indians, and also the British. The various issues that arose in South Asia was largely class or caste systems (Docs 2, 3, 4), rivalry (Docs 1, 6, 10), and religious tensions (Docs 5, 7, 8, 9) against the various countries and cricket groups. Throughout its interaction with Indian politics from 1880 to 2005, cricket has served as both a unifying force between totally different political groups and also has divided political groups in periods of power struggle and political variations, as well as making sturdy bonds between countries.
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