Indian democracy was established just after the Independence of India in the year of 1950 on 26 January with the adoption of Constitution, that is celebrated all over the country as Republic Day . It is the world's largest democracy with more than 136 crore citizens. Now, what is actually a democracy? A democracy consists of a setup of government by the people that is the citizens of the country, through elected representatives. India is a parliamentary secular democratic Republic , in which prime minister is the head of the government and the president is the head of the state. 

India is a democratic country, but why is it a democracy? Our country conducts national elections every five year to elect a government by the representatives of people, which means no political party can have a complete authority over the government thereby destroying the democratic nature of the country. It also has a federal structure, that means it consists of a central government at the centre and the state governments at the periphery. It has two legislative houses a upper house that is Rajya Sabha and the lower house that is the Lok Sabha. All members of elected by the people of the country and for the people of the country, making India the largest democratic country. 

But, what is the biggest threat to democracy? It is Communalism. Communalism is the biggest threat to the democracy of India. Communalism means a belief that only a particular ethnic group can live in the country with equal rights and not people from other religions. India being a secular democratic Republic, cannot entertain communalism within its territory. Indian leaders of the times of 1947 and after that too wanted India to be secular, and it was also made secular in the year 1950 after the adoption of Constitution. India in it's history has always found promoting brotherhood among all the religion and providing equal rights and citizenships to all the people. But in today's India communalism has come forward to an extent as a threat to the democratic nature. A particular ethnic group that is the majority in India practicing Hinduism have been promoted largely due to some political reasons making the people of other religions insecure about their rights in the country. In 2014, riots took place all over the country with killing of hundreds of Muslims, due to political reasons which clearly shows the seed of communalism in the democracy. There are so many such incidents that occurred in these years. Hence, this decade has been proved the biggest threat to the democratic nature of the country. 

This is not what we have learnt in schools, we have learnt the importance of a democracy. Each citizen needs to understand what democracy is, promoting a single religion is a threat to our very own country.