Question

Long Answer Type Question:

What was the voting system in India before Independence? What ideas did Gandhiji express in the journal Young India about the voting system? 

Answer 1

In India, before Independence, only a small minority enjoyed the voting right. This was shocking for Gandhiji. He firmly disapproved of this system and advocated for the universal adult franchise which gives all adults the right to vote.
Expressing his ideas in the journal Young India in 1931 Gandhiji said that it is discriminating to deprive poor and illiterate people of voting rights. Snatching the right to vote from a person simply because he is poor or illiterate is in no way justified. A poor or illiterate is also a citizen of the country and he has every right to enjoy all privileges existing in the country. Thus, Gandhiji was very fair and favoured the system that would provide the equal voting rights to all.