(National Voters Day)
The National Voters’ Day is celebrated on 25 January every year in India in order to mark the foundation day of the Election Commission of India in 1950.
This day is solely meant to encourage the population of India to vote and thereby maximize the enrollment of voters. Hence, this day is of extreme importance as voting serves as the central pillar of any functioning democracy.
The theme for this year’s NVD, ‘Making Elections Inclusive, Accessible and Participative’, envisages focus on ECI’s commitment to facilitate the active participation of voters during the elections and to make the complete process hassle-free and a memorable experience for all categories of voters.
In India, people vote once in every five years to elect representatives to the national, state and local legislative bodies. This is an extremely important exercise as people have direct power to put the right people into positions of governance.