On the March 7, 2022 JKLU’s Centre for Communication and Critical Thinking organized a session titled “Democracy and The Electoral Process” for all the students and faculty members across the University. The session’s speaker was Mr Arpan Acharya, Assistant Professor of Law at Bennett University and Convenor of the Clinics Committee which manages all forms of clinical legal education other than moot courts and legal aid. Mr Acharya is currently engaged in writing research papers focusing on the judicial treatment of the right to religion in India, especially with regards to how the socio-political and judicial discourse on love jihad has incentivized the creation of a new form of (religiously) hierarchized citizenship, and looking at the application of the state action doctrine to large social media platforms and their constitutional liability. The session was organised in hybrid mode. The speaker contextualized the theme of the session against his knowledge and various historical events. He explained how, while democracy is often discussed as being a part of our constitutional commitment, in practice, there are many ills that plague the electoral process. He used the INDIA VOTE website to demonstrate some statistical data of various elections in India. The speaker, however, was focused on something more fundamental; the way we conceive of electoral democracy and the conflation of representation with the first past the post system and common electorates. He tapped on the Indian political history common electorates which have often been held up as the epitome of equality and fairness. He also brought the audience focus on the proportional representation which is used by Europeans for elections. The speaker openly discussed some of Ambedkar’s thoughts on electoral democracy and the question of representation, he shredded light on the constitutional promise of universal adult franchise and the ways in which the constitution itself seems to have subverted that promise. In the process, Mr Acharya encouraged the students to challenge their own assumptions about who we are as a nation and as a society. At the end of the session, the audience interacted with the speaker and explored how India is a democratic country and how coalition can lead us to experience better democracy in our country.