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Democracy is good in the aspect of: · Holding free and fair elections. · Having public debate on issues · Equality being recognised by law · No discrimination based on religion,caste,creed,gender etc · Universal Adult Suffrage · Right to form organisations and protest. However, there are some aspects of democracy that remain in principle and not in practice: · Though free and fair elections are held, not everyone is able to contest in the elections. Only people with money and power are able to form parties and contest in the elections. This is because elections incur expenses that cannot be met by the poorer strata's of society, should they wish to contest elections · Though there are public debates on issues, not each and every issue is open to public debate and even if there are debates, decisions are taken without peoples consent. E.g. the passing of the Lok BAL bill was in favour of the citizens of the entire country. However, the govt. has still not taken any measures to pass this bill. · The govt. is not completely free from corruption. · Democracy takes a long time to take decisions because of deliberation and negotiation in assemblies. E.g. the decision regarding the 2G scam has been going on for years and currently 4G has come up. · There are vast economic disparities as well. However, in spite of all this we can assure that democracy is a better form of government as it is legitimate . It is a govt of the people, by the people and for the people. It has transformed subjects to citizens

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Democracy is seen to be good in principle but not that good in practice perhaps because it offers majority rule in all things. This can be a very complicated process, and requires nearly constant campaigning and voting.

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