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A democratic government is run by the elected representative of the people. It is a form of government of the people, by the people and for the people. An attempt is made in this paper to explore the current political system from the past to future based on the experience gained in the present situation. India is well known for its unity in diversity. The people in India belong to various religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistics groups and they are living with the notion of being the common brotherhood as enshrined in Preamble to the Indian Constitution. Being the situation, the authors like to discuss as to how the modern approach in India on the slogan “Save India and Save Democracy” would in future affect the democratic setup established by the framers of the Constitution in the past. Because, the purpose of a CONSTITUTION is to define the distribution of power among the three pillars of the government namely, the legislative executive, and judiciary with certain checks and balances among them. Moreover, the authors further tries to assail the mind-set of the governments, both Central and States, with regard to the rights guaranteed by Article 19 (1) (a) of the Constitution of India over and above the Central Government outlook towards the State Governments. In yet another discussion, the authors are about to argue the future of the judicial democracy also, in view of the recent differential judicial understanding on various statutory concepts in India, as the courts in India, in recent, instead of reflecting the constitutional mandate, reflects the change in its verdict that existing in the society. Finally, the authors inter alia try to suggest as to how the future of the democracy would be in the politics, legislature and judiciary? What are the steps to be taken to prevent the threat to the democratic setup? The conclusion would be that the authoritarian approach by any Union Government either by threat or by usurping the powers of the State and judiciary would lead to autocracy, thereby the constitutional goals and objectives would be defeated. The loom of autocracy would not only keep the democracy at peril but also lead the failure of rule of law.