Should Voting be made Compulsory..?

Democracy: of the people, for the people and by the people. The very definition of democracy assumes that the people participation is of paramount importance in order to run a democratic machinery. Nonetheless, this fact has remained severely obscured amongst the intelligentsia, whether by choice or by the sheer ignorance..? The intelligentsia, who claims to be quite cynic about democratic fundamentals, thus abstain from exercising their democratic duties and in turn impute the not-so-intellectuals for status quo. This indifference or rather apathy on their part keeps amalgamating and over the time it transforms into sheer hatred and animosity against the system and not-so-intellectual class. While this threat looms large over the fate of democracy, it's high time to pass a legislation for compulsory voting.That ways, you remain answerable for what you do.Once passed, this legislation will certainly foster the level of people participation in democratic functionings and also the mandate will certainly fare better than what we have presently.

Recently,in a landmark move, a legislation has been passed for compulsory urban voting in Gujrat assembly for local body polls.Why can't we extend it to parliamentary and assembly polls too.I believe, this move has the potential to bring back the democratic machinery to somewhere near where it is supposed to be.It will also be in the larger interest of common masses to go for it.
I really appreciate the commendable stand of Lalu Prasad Yadav on this proposition (unlike most of the time..).