Electoral Reforms

This Republic Day, it's time we spared time to give a thought to what the Vice President has spoken in all his blessed wisdom. Blessed, because such pearls of wisdom come but rarely these days from people who matter in the body politic of India, or should I say the news makers. The Hon'ble VP has drawn attention to two important reforms in the electoral process of this country if we want democracy in India to acquire the instrumentalist role it should play in alleviating the misery of the people. He has talked of doing away with the first-past-the-post system and introducing the right to reject candidates as a means to making the legislative bodies truly representative and weeding out the virus of divisive electoral politics.