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Criminalization of Politics and Role of Election Commission in India: A Critical Study

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Anshul goyal, Dr.vinod kumar
ยป doi: 10.48047/AFJBS.6.13.2024.7425-7439

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Maintaining a healthy democracy in a country as varied as India is tough. Constant dangers to democracy, such as political prosecution, have made keeping the country's government functioning properly more challenging than ever. This increasingly murky alliance of politicians and criminals is harmful on several levels. There has been no advancement in addressing the political crisis. This means that free and fair elections are important to the survival of the democratic system. This agency is in charge of both election planning and supervision. The lower houses of parliament (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha), as well as state legislative legislatures and councils, are all monitored by the same organisation that regulates the country's high-profile presidential and vice-presidential elections. Nonetheless, throughout its history, the voting process has been afflicted by a variety of difficult phases and situations. In reality, conditions like this encourage antisocial elements to compete in elections. Given these considerations, the current study is an apolitical endeavour to learn more about how the Election Commission plans, monitors, and controls federal and state elections. In addition, the article examines the role of the Election Commission in India's electoral transition. This article will also address what actions our judges and politicians have made, as well as what more may be done to stop the criminalization of politics

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