DEMOCRACY IN INDIA

DEMOCRACY IN INDIA

India has turned out to be the biggest democracy on the world. After gaining independence after 1947 Nehru created an interim government and also created a Constituent Assembly to create a Constitution.

In 1950 India adopted the constitution and became a democratic republic.

For the first half our democracy was shadowed by the Congress. Congress held power from the first election in 1950 and till 1977. In 1977 for the first time a non-Congress government came to power under Moraji Desai, which was a coalition government. However this government only lasted for two years before Congress came back to power, in 1980. The reason Congress dominated and was supported in the country because everyone saw it as the party that bought India to freedom and there was no other party strong or nig enough to challenge the Congress.

In 1975 India was imposed the Emergency by the Congress and this is considered to be darkest era of Indian Democracy.

In 1980 the BJP was formed, though it did not seem to challenge the power of Congress. However this party in 1992 after adopting the Policy of Hinduvita posed as threat Congress. In 1999 BJP came to power and that lasted to 2004. The support of the Congress for the first was shaken and it began to lose its support.

However Congress came back to power after the 2004 election and it came back with a bigger bang after the 2009 election with a majority of 206 seats in Lok Sabha. Manmohan Singh is the current Prime Minister.

India has adopted a system that balance powers with three institutions of Indian democracy that is Legislative, Judicial and Administrative. Each one acts as a check and balance on each ones power.