Explain 5 demerits and merits of political competition
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Merits:
a) It provides equal opportunities to all citizens, irrespective of gender, cast, sex,etc. to elect their leaders.
b) It creates competition among parties to serve people better.
c) People can select a particular leader who can solve their problems.
d) People will have a lot of options among various leaders.
e) It leads to the development of the nation.
Demerits:
a) It creates a feeling of rationalism in minds.
b) It creates disunity and factionalism.
c) Candidates use dirty tricks to win elections.
d) Candidates can even bribe the people for votes.
e) Long term policies may/will become casualty for electoral politics.
Demerits of political competition are:
1. It creates a sense of disunity and 'factionalism' .
2. Different political parties and leaders often level allegations against one another.
3. This pressure to win electoral fights does not allow sensible long-term policies to be formulated.
Merits of political competition :
1. Free competition in elections makes way to select our future leaders.
Sorry I found only 1 merit
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