Right to vote and to be elected in India is a

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According to Supreme Court judgment Jyoti Basu vs Debi Ghosal - A right to elect, fundamental though it is to democracy, is, anomalously neither a fundamental right nor a Common Law Right. It is a statutory right. So is the right to be elected, and the right to dispute an election.NOTE - As per NCERT One of the important decisions of the framers of the Indian Constitution was to guarantee every adult citizen in India, the right to vote i.e. universal adult franchise. The article 326 of the Constitution provides for the right to vote and to be elected in India. What is true of the right to vote is also true of right to contest election. All citizens have the right to stand for election and become the representative of the people.Source Attribution:Union of India vs. Association for Democratic Reforms and Anr. (2002) 5 SCCPeople’s Union for Civil Liberties vs. Union of India (2003)Article of the ConstitutionNCERT: 11 Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter