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Electoral and Party Politics - निव़़डणुका आणि पक्षांचे राजकारण (10 Lectures)
1.1 Elections (1952, 1977, 1989, 1998, 2004) - निवडणुका - 1952, 1977, 1989, 1998, 2004
1.2 Political Parties- National and Regional Parties - राजकीय पक्ष - राष्ट्रीय आणि प्रादेशिक पक्ष
1.3 Coalition Governments - आघाड्यांची सरकारे
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After the constitution came into force, the country was ruled by an interim government. It was necessary to install the first democratically elected government. The process was started by setting up the election commission. The Election Commission of India was set up in January 1950. Sukumar Sen became the first Chief Election Commissioner. The country’s first general elections were expected sometime in 1950 itself. But the holding of election was not so easy as it was expected. The election commission faced with many problems. The first major task was the drawing up of boundaries of the electoral constituencies and the other was preparing the electoral rolls. Both these tasks took a lot of time. The preparing of electoral roll was faced with many difficulties as almost 40 lakh women were listed as wife or daughter of somebody and their names were not recorded. This required revision of electoral roll. Another challenge was though the no of eligible voters was 17 crore (as India had adopted the principle of Universal Adult Franchise from the very first election itself, giving voting rights to women, while many other developed countries in Europe had not given these rights to women) only 15% of them were literate. Due to this enormous task, the elections had to be postponed twice and were finally held from Oct. 1951 to Feb 1952. They are referred to as the 1952 elections as most of the parts of India voted in 1952 Jan and the results were declared in 1952.
The candidates to be elected numbered 3200 MLAs and 489 LS members. So a special method of
Electoral and Party Politics - निव़़डणुका आणि पक्षांचे राजकारण (10 Lectures)
1.1 Elections (1952, 1977, 1989, 1998, 2004) - निवडणुका - 1952, 1977, 1989, 1998, 2004
1.2 Political Parties- National and Regional Parties - राजकीय पक्ष - राष्ट्रीय आणि प्रादेशिक पक्ष
1.3 Coalition Governments - आघाड्यांची सरकारे
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After the constitution came into force, the country was ruled by an interim government. It was necessary to install the first democratically elected government. The process was started by setting up the election commission. The Election Commission of India was set up in January 1950. Sukumar Sen became the first Chief Election Commissioner. The country’s first general elections were expected sometime in 1950 itself. But the holding of election was not so easy as it was expected. The election commission faced with many problems. The first major task was the drawing up of boundaries of the electoral constituencies and the other was preparing the electoral rolls. Both these tasks took a lot of time. The preparing of electoral roll was faced with many difficulties as almost 40 lakh women were listed as wife or daughter of somebody and their names were not recorded. This required revision of electoral roll. Another challenge was though the no of eligible voters was 17 crore (as India had adopted the principle of Universal Adult Franchise from the very first election itself, giving voting rights to women, while many other developed countries in Europe had not given these rights to women) only 15% of them were literate. Due to this enormous task, the elections had to be postponed twice and were finally held from Oct. 1951 to Feb 1952. They are referred to as the 1952 elections as most of the parts of India voted in 1952 Jan and the results were declared in 1952.
The candidates to be elected numbered 3200 MLAs and 489 LS members. So a special method of