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16 hours ago ago from India Current Affairs
The Gujarat government’s decision to make voting compulsory in the local bodies’ elections triggered off a debate on the impact of compulsory voting on the Indian democracy. The large scale indifference of voters especially the affluent and the middle class, metropolitan voters to exercise their franchise created an out cry among the democratic sections of the society. The low voter turnout and the fractured mandate in a fragmented polity is ...
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13 hours ago ago from Congress and Law
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