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Q9 - Answer in brief
1. Why is it important to conduct elections?​

Answer 1

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Elections and other political processes are pivotal to the quality of a country's governance and can either greatly advance or set back a country's long-term democratic development, as well as USG country, regional, and global foreign policy priorities.

Answer 2

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Elections form the bedrock of the largest democracy in the world - India. Elections provide a way to the people to assert their voice, opinion and choose the person whose priorities and ideas matches with them most. In India the elections are not new and they started taking place before the independence from British rule itself. But before independence the franchise was quit limited and very few were having rights to participate and vote. After independence, India adopted universal adult suffrage and each adult Indian got the right to vote.

Change of leadership: Elections in India are also a platform for the public to voice their resentment against a ruling party. By voting for other parties and helping elect a different government, citizens demonstrate that they possess ultimate authority.

Political participation: Elections open the door for new issues to be raised in public. If a citizen of India wishes to introduce reforms that are not the agenda of any of the parties, he or she is free to contest the elections either independently or by forming a new political party.

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