ELECTIONS IN INDIA AND ITS FRANCHISE SOVEREIGNTY GRADUALLY WIDENED THE SCOPE FOR MODERN INNOVATIVE REFORMS AFTER INDEPENDENCE

The various government of India Act and rules that were passed and made effective during the course of the 19th and the 20th centuries gradually widened the scope of performance by its franchise. A small required innovation was made in the eighty of the last century when the Indian council of Act 1893 brought people's representatives election provisos goverment Legislation to describe the central government model code of conduct. The GOI Act 1919 further widened the franchise and under the government of India's Act 1935 ,10 percent of the population was roughly enfranchised and three crores of people's were enfranchised and two general elections were held under that Act ie in 1937 and the other in 1946 .The percentage of people who exercised their right to vote remained forty to fifty percent all over .Now the new constitution of India provides for the adults franchise for which time to time changes are made by the government as found necessary and up to the possible extent and the preamble of the constitution vests sovereignty in the people of country and too working for the welfare of people of country.