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TERM II
A. Those difficulties that are significant and which we can overcome are called
challenges. A challenge is a difficulty that carries within it, an opportunity of
progress.
Q.4. Discuss the broad guidelines to be kept in mind while devising ways for political
reforms in India.
ii) Any legal change must look at what results it will have on politics. Sometimes,
the results may be counter-productive. For example, many states have banned
people who have more than two children from contesting the panchayat elections.
This has resulted in denying opportunity to many poor and women.
iii) The Right to Information Act is a good example of a law that empowers the
people to find out what is happening in the government and acts as watchdogs of
democracy. Such laws help to control corruption.
iv)The most important concern should be to increase and improve the quality of
political participation by ordinary citizens.
i) The rulers elected by the people must take all the major decisions.
ii) Elections must offer a choice and opportunity to all the people to change the
current rulers.
iii) This choice and opportunity should be available to all the people on equal basis.
iv) Besides the right to vote, the citizens must be given social and economic rights.
v) The power sharing between the govt. and social groups is necessary in a
democracy.
vi) In a democracy, the ruling party must respect the minority views.