• Wazi Uddin Choudhury

Election is part and parcel of democracy. It is the beauty of democracy that the citizens can elect their representatives through election from time to time. All the sections of Indian society irrespective of caste, class, gender and linguistic affiliations, can participate in the electoral process. However, it is essential to make a deep analysis of the way the citizens are practising their democratic rights in the decision making mechanism. A sound democratic system of a country is determined mainly by aware and active participant citizens . Unlike other communities of India , the scheduled tribe communities are backward in almost all spheres of life. The same is in case of north east India also . Therefore, an attempt is made in this article to understand the electoral behavior of the ST community of Cachar district of assam. Two villages of Lakhipur Constituency, namely Hatirhar Nagapunjee and Kaptanpur Nagapunjee were selected for this study to understand the mindset of the ST citizens in the the recent days

Keywords : citizens , election ,community, vote, electoral process

"The Electoral Behaviour of ST Community of Cachar; With special reference of Assam Legislative Assembly Election,2021", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no.i146-i150, March-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303824.pdf

"The Electoral Behaviour of ST Community of Cachar; With special reference of Assam Legislative Assembly Election,2021", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no. ppi146-i150, March-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303824.pdf