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In this Class 9 Civics topic from “What is Democracy? Why Democracy?”, students examine why elections must provide voters with a genuine choice among competing parties and candidates. They learn how clear rules, equal opportunities, regular elections, secret ballots, and independent oversight help make electoral competition fair. The topic also explains how excessive money power, intimidation, unfair use of government resources, or restricted participation can weaken democracy, while meaningful competition makes elected representatives more accountable to citizens.
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Why do citizens need information about candidates in a free election?
Correct answer: A
Voters need information about candidates because an election is meaningful only when people can compare alternatives and judge them. Information may include a candidate's ideas, record, public work, policies, and priorities. With such knowledge, citizens can connect their own needs and values with the available choices.
Therefore, information helps citizens vote thoughtfully and is the reason option A is correct. It does not aim to stop voting, fix the result, or remove the opposition. In a free election, informed citizens can make an independent decision rather than simply following rumours, pressure, or an attractive but unsupported claim.
In a free election whose pressure should not be on voters?
Correct answer: A
In a free election, every eligible voter should be able to decide independently whom to support. A political party or a powerful person must not threaten, bribe, intimidate, or force voters. The voter may listen to arguments and examine promises, but the final decision must belong to the voter. Thus, the correct choice is A: pressure from any party or powerful person should not be placed on voters.
A voter’s own judgment is not an unfair pressure; it is the freedom that elections are meant to protect. A polling station and a ballot paper are parts of the voting process, not political forces that should control the choice. The important test is whether the voter can make a voluntary decision without fear or improper influence. Since option A describes the prohibited outside pressure, it follows directly.
In which situation will a voter's choice be considered real?
Correct answer: B
A voter's choice is real only when it reflects the voter's own free and informed decision. This requires meaningful alternatives, reliable information about those alternatives, and freedom from threats, bribery, force, or control by another person. If any of these conditions is missing, the apparent vote may not show what the voter truly prefers.
Hence option B is correct: the voter must receive free information and genuine choices. Threats remove freedom, another person's casting of the vote removes the voter's agency, and a pre-decided result makes the choice meaningless. Information alone is not enough if there are no alternatives, and alternatives are not enough if the voter cannot choose freely.
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