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Tracing A Meaningful Right To Vote., Manmeet Singh Rai Mr.

Manmeet Singh Rai Mr.

Right to vote is sine qua non to a democratic society. The Indian judiciary time and again has emphasized the importance of free and fair elections. The legislature enacted and amended many laws to safeguard, and ensure that the process of elections is free and fair. In this turmoil of safeguarding the most essential and sacred process in a democracy the basic question of whether the citizens have a ‘right to vote’? was never answered. When this question was posed for the first time before the apex court, a mammoth task of interpretation of the constitution, and various legislative texts …