Parliamentary Debates Parliament of India Tuesday 15th May 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Official Report

especially the ruling party, the party in power The faci- lities of the 1. !ciio mus', be Liven to all the parties in the elections. [...] The scheme of the Constitution is that the President acts on the advice of the Ministers. [...] then arises the question as to who should preside over the meeting or where the meeting is to be convened with the result that invariably the local officials will be drawn into the vortex of the controversy, which is a very unhealthy thing. [...] Therefore I think on the whole the advantage is in not having such a Day but in leav- ing it to the discretion of the President to send out a message sufficiently in advance of the election day, either on the radio or by a poster. [...] But I have my own fear about democracy being misused because the signs in the country are such and the tendency on the part of the executive today is to check the people's power, the power of democracy in the country.