In a democratic set up, in the process of electing the leaders by a voting process offers equal right to all citizens or members of association. This idea of one vote per citizen or a member will be great if all are equally committed to elect an able leader who will work for the collective gain. But unfortunately people are utterly selfish. They want to gain in terms of their profession, status, caste, religion and in whatever way they can identify themselves. It is obvious that the value of each vote is not the same. However the very basis of democracy is that it values all vote equally. So the smart candidate does a home work and devices ways and means of accumulating vote. Votes can be gained by fueling caste feeling, by promising support for minority religion, promising good pay packages for the people in government services and by offering free benefits to the so called economically backward people. Votes can also be bought with money. Sadly very few votes can be gained b
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