Civics
State two reasons to say that caste alone cannot determine election results in India.
Answer
Two reasons to say that caste alone cannot determine election results in India are:
- No parliamentary constituency in the country has a clear majority of one single caste. So, every candidate and party needs to win the confidence of more than one caste and community to win elections.
- No party wins the votes of all the voters of a caste or community. When people say that a caste is a ‘vote bank’ of one party, it usually means that a large proportion of the voters from that caste vote for that party.