How Democratic is Democratic India: Lalit K Kaul
How Democratic is Democratic India? Lalit K Kaul India is a democratic country because we have Parliamentary Democracy. We are a democratic Nation because Parliament embodies “the Will of the People" that manifests through their elected representatives who are supposed to carry their aspirations- social, economical, religious and political- to the “Temple of Democracy" for finding their resolution through debates, laced with logical reasoning, among the people's representatives from all political parties. As logic would have it, at the end of electioneering, voting and declaration of election results, those elected to the Parliament are Indian people's representatives and not of their individual political outfits, but that's not how it works out in the Parliament. The Whip and Freedom of Expression/Speech: It's one thing to get a Bill passed in both the houses of Parliament and