Q5. You are a citizen of India , how can u make the democratic character of a country stronger?
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Democracy is supposed to be a political system that ensures that the will of the majority of people — or more accurately a majority of voting age adults — prevails. But the actual experience of democracies all over the world, as also in India, has brought home the fact that this theoretical premise is scarcely ever borne out by praxis. The ideal is not achieved in practice for a variety of reasons.
For starters, how does one ensure that everybody who is entitled to vote (or as nearly everybody as possible) actually votes? If this cannot be achieved, do those who are elected represent all the people or merely those who actually voted? Second, even if the government is formed with a majority of people supporting it, what is the mechanism to ensure that the decisions it takes during its years in office reflect the will of the people it ostensibly represents and not merely the will of a majority of the elected?
These are not just theoretical issues. In India, for instance, no government at the Centre has ever been formed with the support of a majority of all those eligible to vote or even of all those who voted (see graph). The closest we have got to that goal is in 1984, when the Congress government formed by Rajiv Gandhi had got 49.1% of all votes cast in that Lok Sabha election. However, with the turnout being 64%, that still meant only 31.4% of all eligible voters had voted for a Congress government. That’s less than one in three.
At the other end of the spectrum, in 1996, the National Front-Left Front combine that formed the government had just under 30% of the votes polled, which meant a mere 17.2% of the electorate had voted for it. Thus, governments at the Centre in India have had at best a little less than one-third and at worst, less than a fifth of the electorate backing them.
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You are a citizen of India , how can u make the democratic character of a country stronger?
*I will make brain list*