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Voting starts today for the election of the respective public servants. A new parliament will be elected to coordinate, support and serve the company. With our vote, the public servants elected to the next parliament will once again be engaged in making public policy. Our company sees the general election as a responsible festival. There has always been hope in society to choose public servants with independent faith. In a country of this size that had no tradition of adult voting in the English parliamentary system, the first general election was conducted with civilized manners.
Recently, in an article by Adriya Roy Chowdhury published in a newspaper, it is useful to know and understand how the foreign press saw the first general elections in India. An article written in news published abroad about the first general election of independent India has special significance. The first general election was held across the country from October 1951 to February 1952. 17 percent of the population voted in the largest election in the world. There was skepticism about the first general election in India that became independent from the British Empire, But those same news reports show how there was first skepticism, then surprise, but the neat conclusion was applauded.
There is no other example like this
Historian Ramachandra Goa believed on the basis of those reports that it would be difficult to find another in human history similar to the breadth of faith shown in the first general election. Archibald, the then British ambassador to India, wrote to his officer, the general election was the opening of India’s parliamentary democracy, in which the country passed the test. He admitted that the general elections were conducted with extraordinary efficiency. According to him, the largely illiterate population showed awareness of the new challenge by demonstrating calm civilized behavior. The New York Times called this stunning electoral success an unprecedented experiment in democracy. The Manchester Guardian admitted in its report that if any country has taken a long step in the people’s system, it is India.
