Elections law and procedures

Right to elect and to be elected are statutory rights and from this angle the election law affects every citizen of India, as a political being.
The law is not static and is always in a state of evolution through the processes of actual functioning and implementation and through interpretation by means of judicial pronouncements. The former process manifests itself in the shape of amendments through legislation and the latter process by eliminating unworthy precedents by evolving overruling judicial precedents. Election law had been no exception to the twin processes of gradual evolution, which prompted the authors to bring forward this new publication in a field which itself was not very much traversed in the country by legal experts.
All the material that in totality can be called "Law of Elections" is scattered at so many places that without a proper study of its varied aspects it is not possible to have a grasp of it.
There are atleast fifty five articles in the Constitution of India, which deal with the elections to various offices under the Constitution including special provisions relating to certain classes and emergency provisions.
The articles of the Constitution of India relevant to the election, which is an essential part of the democratic process, the grundnorm giving constitutional validity and thus legal sanction to various enactments passed by the Parliament and the State Legislatures. There are seventeen rules and orders issued under special constitutional provisions, and twelve statu tory rules and orders. In addition there are more than a score of the Removal of Disqualification Acts passed by the Parliament and the various State Legislatures. Even the Representation of the People Acts, are two in number, one passed in the year 1950 and the other in the year 1951. In this way, about the election and its processes there are such a large volume of relevant law and provisions that it is not easily possible for one to acquaint with all of them with mastery, though the election process is one of such democratic processes which touches and concerns every citizen of India. Even a working acquaintance with all the election provisions is no easy exercise.