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Question 9 Consider the following facts about a country and decide if you would call it a democracy. Give reasons to support your decision.
(a) All the citizens of the country have right to vote Elections are held regularly.
(b) The country took loan from international agencies. One of the conditions for given loan was that the government would reduce its expenses on education and health.
(c) People speak more than seven languages but education is available only in one language, the language spoken by 52 percent people of the country.
(d) Several organisations have given a call for peaceful demonstrations and nation wide strikes in the country to oppose these policies. Government has arrested these leaders.
(e) The government owns the radio and television in the country. All the newspapers have to get permission from the government to publish any news about government’s policies and protests.

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

The country is not a democratic country. The reasons are as follows:

• The only feature of a democratic country that this country has is that of voting rights.

• The government is not willing to provide sufficient health and education facilities. Thus, they are taking away the right to education of the citizens.

• The Freedom of Speech and Expression is also restricted as the means to communicate are handled by the government itself. No one can speak a word against the government either on the radio or newspaper, as they will be arrested.

• The right to protest is also not facilitated. Peaceful protestations are not allowed and jailed for such matters.

• The freedom of language is also barred since only a single language is taken to be the language of the entire nation.

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