why is country's first general election called the world's biggest gamble?
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The first general election was also the first big test of democracy in a poor and illiterate country. Till then democracy had existed only in the prosperous countries mainly Europe and America. It was now proved that democratic elections on the basis of Universal adult franchise can be held in the condition of lack of education or conditions of poverty. b The problems that the Election commission confront while holding the first general elections were: • Holding an election required delimitation or drawing the boundaries of the electoral constituencies. This task took lot of time. • It also required to prepare the electoral rolls. When the first draft of the rolls was published names of nearly 40 lakh women were not recorded in the list. So it had to be prepared again. • At the time of first general elections there were 17 crore eligible voters who had to elect about 32000 MLAs and 489 members of Lok Sabha. Only 15 percent of these eligible voters were literate. The EC therefore had to think about some special method of voting.