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Question
The first general election was postponed twice. Give two reasons for the same.
Solution
The first general election was a mammoth exercise:
- 17 crore eligible voters were to elect about 3,200 MLAs and 489 members of Lok Sabha.
- Only 15% of the voters were literate.
- In the first draft of the rolls, names of nearly 40 lakh women were not recorded in the list. (Any two points)
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