ELECTIONS AND VOTING RIGHT

ASSISTANT PROF. DAMANPREET SINGH TODAY HELD A SEMINAR FOR INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL STUDENTS ON ELECTIONS IN INDIA. HE MESMERIZED THE STUDENTS WITH DETAILS OF LARGEST DEMOCRATIC EXERCISE IN THE WORLD .

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WERE BRIEFED ABOUT THE WAY THE DEMOCRACY WORKS IN INDIA. STUDENTS FROM TEN REPUBLICS PARTICIPATED IN THE SEMINAR. AS MOST OF THEM WERE FROM YOUNG AND NEW DEMOCRACIES, THE INDIAN SYSTEM OF ELECTIONS WAS A BREATHTAKING EXPERIENCE FOR THEM. THE INTERNATIONAL CONGLOMERATE OF STUDENTS APPRECIATED THE FACT THAT DESPITE BEING A NATION OF THOUSAND LANGUAGES, COMMUNITIES AND RELIGION ELECTIONS SHE HAS BEEN HOLDING ELECTIONS REGULARLY SINCE HER INDEPENDENCE PEACEFULLY, A LESSON TO OTHER DEMOCRACIES IN THE WORLD.