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Write a essay on Role of money in Indian elections. ​

Answer 1

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The distribution or offering of money in elections by candidates and political parties during elections plays an important role in determining the voting-choice of the people. The predicament of irresponsible use of cash – acknowledged by political parties and individual candidates from businessman and other sources from time-to-time for furtherance of their election prospects has already acquire upsetting aspect of our electoral system. It has also been pointed out that political parties and their candidates have spent money far in excess of limit imposed by the Representation of Peoples’ Act, 1954. [1] Indeed, the former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, R.K. Trivedi, himself was embarrassed to testimony of the role of money-power in our elections as L.P. Singh (1987), writes:

This malady, I am afraid, during the last decade has assumed alarming proportions. The huge expenditure incurred by candidates and political parties has not relationship to the ceiling prescribed under the law. The candidates and their political parties look to big money-bags for their funds to contest elections, thereby adopting a formula which establishes the chances if winning in direct proportion to the money spent. That in course of time various decision-making levels, does not seem to bother them. [2]

In extreme forms, unconventional modes of electoral practices are manifest in the explicit acts of vote buying [3] which seeks to refute the liberty to articulate citizens’ electoral preferences. Since, persuasion alone occasionally generates an adequate amount of support, candidates or parties, on the other, on a regular basis, try to pay for or convince votes through money. As indicated in table 4.1, the influence of ‘money’ in elections shapes the voting behaviour of 15.83% of the respondent electorate in the constituency. The male voters are more influenced by ‘money’ than the female counterpart. This is mainly because of two important reasons, i.e., due to conservative nature of women and the domination over females by male counterpart. Exchange of vote for money has turn out to be open-secret in every elections of the constituency. Generally speaking, the voters who accepted money are of two types: voters who did not claim but simply agreed while being paid; and those who claim either from the candidate directly or from any sources that advance them during the campaign period. The table 4.6 indicates the response of the voters who accepted money from candidates in election. [4]

Answer 2

Role of money in Indian elections :

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• Introduction : Money is necessary thing which is important for everything happening in the large scale,like the elections.

• Positive necessity : The occurrence of the election needs a lot of efforts which costs a good amount of money. And in this aspect,the money is mandatory required for election.

• Negative necessity : The money is also used to encourage the corruption in the electoral process which is very dangerous for our democracy.

• Conclusion : As a conclusion we can say that we have to accept the positive necessity of the money in the elections and similarly we have to demolish the negative usage of money in the elections as well,to improve our future.