You have seen two good videos about the system of elections in India. Please answer these application-based questions using your notes from the videos as a reference.

1. What are constituencies?
2. What is ‘reservation’, or the quota system? Do you fundamentally agree with a quota system in our country? Give reasons for your answer.
3. Who does the responsibility of a fair and just election lie on? Only the election commission, or more parties?
4. Imagine you are a journalist working in a small constituency. What kind of image of the candidate would you present to the public? Could your views be bought? Think carefully before answering this one!
5. Are all the elders in your family on the voters’ list? Find out.
6. There is a website called myneta.info that gives out every candidate’s educational and financial background along with their political affiliations. Have you heard of it? Go on the website and get the details of the last candidates who stood from your constituency. If you were eligible, would you have voted for them? Why?
7. What are the challenges that come up in organising elections for a country of 1.2 billion people?
8. How can the election commission make better use of technology during the election process?
9. Describe this image: