"Experience has shown that present-day mass elections, manipulated by powerful, centrally-controlled parties, with the aid of high finance and diabolically clever methods and super media of communication, represent far less the electorate than the forces and interests behind the parties and the propaganda machines."
(The excerpts are taken from Transforming the Polity; Centenary Readings from Jayaprakash Narayan, selected and introduced by Ajit Bhattacharjea, to be released on JP's centenary.)
