BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY AND ANR. Vs. THE STATE ELECTION COMMISSION AND ORS.
LAWS(CAL)-2018-4-63
HIGH COURT OF CALCUTTA
Decided on April 20,2018

Bharatiya Janata Party And Anr. Appellant
VERSUS
The State Election Commission And Ors. Respondents

JUDGEMENT

SUBRATA TALUKDAR,J. - (1.) It is only apt that the present discussion should commence remembering Winston Churchill's famous reference in the House of Commons on 31st October, 1944 to the little man making a little cross walking into the little booth.
(2.) Churchill's words deserve to be quoted as follows:- "At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paperno amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point-House of Commons, 31 October 1944."
(3.) The moral therefore follows that do belittle the impact of the little man.;


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