Post-Mortem of Parliamentary Democracy and What Is Still To be Done?
Post-Mortem of Parliamentary Democracy and What Is Still To be Done? Post-Mortem of Parliamentary Democracy and What Is Still To be Done? Futuristic Regression: Sustainable Retreat from Development Posted on 08/06/2024 (GMT 17:21 hrs) I. Introduction: Implications of the Lok Sabha 2024 Result After the declaration of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Result on 4th June, 2024, we reflected on the fact that the electoral mandate has totally destroyed the invincible, autocratic, authoritarian, one-man army paper-tiger mode of Mr. Narendra Modi. The election result has made the image-making process of (spectacle) Modi a futile enterprise. No one single party has got the absolute single majority this time, thus paving way to the materialization of the Article 1 of the Indian Constitution: India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states. This election has led to the emergence of this federal plurality of diverse regions with localized concerns instead of running after a monolithic “one-party,