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Making democracy work with active citizenship

updated: Dec 12 2020, 10:13 ist ‘Dance of democracy’ and ‘festival of democracy’ are some of the catchphrases used for elections in India which are characterised by noisy sloganeering and a festive atmosphere. However, this enthusiasm seems to be restricted to the Parliamentary elections and to a lesser extent to the state Assembly elections. In the last few weeks, Hyderabad saw a high decibel campaign leading up to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections. The campaign was punctuated with mammoth rallies (amidst a pandemic) by several celebrity campaigners, making, among other promises, bizarre statements of ‘rooting out Nizam culture’ and changing the name of Hyderabad to ‘Bhagyanagar’. Notwithstanding the fact that this was not a positive campaign, could it have inadvertently put the spotlight on, what should perhaps be, the more important election for the common citizenry?

LIVE: India s Covid-19 tally crosses 9 8 million with 30,006 fresh cases

Highlights: US approves Pfizer Covid shot, first shipment to arrive on Monday India s total active cases continued to remain under the 400,000-mark according to the Union health ministry s dashboard. By hindustantimes.com | Updated: Dec 13, 2020 04:51 IST highlights A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) checks the temperature of passengers amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), at a railway station in Mumbai, India, With 30,005 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, the total cases in India crossed 98-lakh mark and has now reached 98,26,775, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare s (MoHFW) data on Saturday. After 442 new deaths related to the virus reported in the single day, the cumulative toll mounted to 1,42,628. The country reported more discharges than new cases in the last 24 hours bringing down the active cases tally to 3,59,819, which is the lowest after nearly 145 days. The total active cases were 3,58,69

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