00765pab a2200193 454500 180718b2007 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Reddy, Nandana Striking at the roots of democracy 2007 p.1601-603. 5 May The recent amendment to the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act giving state legislators powers over the gram sabhas and panchayats not only takes away the latter's right to choose beneficiaries for government-funded programmes but also affects the right of rural voters to participate in local self-government. - Reproduced. Democracy Panchayat Acharya, Damodar Economic and Political Weekly N 74008 74008 74008 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 42, Issue no: 18 AR74468 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR