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Democracy for Sale:Failed Polity, impotent laws & corrupt Citizenry India in 2022 will complete 75 years of its independence from British colonial rule. Surely not the oldest(not considering older instances, Vaishali Ganrajaya, and thus only in the context of India as a modern nation state) but India is now the largest democracy on this planet. Let's see, how democracy in India is at work? And to do so, we try and read it under three significant heads, state of the polity at present, relevance of the laws recently created by the Indian parliament and thirdly what kind of citizens are we? i.e. Shaping up of our citizenship. How it has happened over the years? To begin with, let's look at some primary figures and its analysis in a specific way. 900 million voters were listed with Election Commission of India by the time 2019 general election actually took-off in the month of April this year. Out of this 900million , 600 million finally turned out to polling booths, for