A Law Student's Contention

The times are such that two of the most readily available things in the contemporary world are memes and Rights. Every country provides a number of rights to people but Political Rights is a special segment that is exclusively reserved for its ‘ citizens ,’ its nationals. They are the ones who have the right to decide the future of the country essentially by deciding who shall lead them and take the country to new heights that citizens have always aspired for. Presently one becomes the citizen of the country by virtue of birth or by the process of naturalization. That essentially means that to be a determining factor in the future of the country you only have to take birth there! And once you attain a certain age no other minimum qualification is required. Contemporary democracy coupled with the universal adult franchise has put up a system where everyone is having a right to choose the government even though he may not have even the bleakest idea about the power he w...

As the General Elections 2019 to Lok Sabha inch closer politics is becoming more intense, unscrupulous and shrewd which makes me question the entire process. Before you decipher this article, I would like to attach a preliminary note that in no way I’m opposing the noble systems of ‘government by the people’ and I too firmly believe that it is one of the greatest systems evolved by humans after applying all the intelligence that humanity could actually devote. But I for one feel that the parliamentary system has manifested all the defects that it carries with the swings of the pendulum and instead of taking a  status quoits  position we should take a reformative approach. We defend the ideas, system, and institutions mindlessly because that is what we have learned but we forget that they were made for the ‘welfare of the people’ and have become more of a burden than an instrument of welfare. The reason is that contemporarily in our country instead of general electi...