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Directions : In the following passage, some of the words have been left out and replaced by blanks represented with letters. First, read the passage and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks as per the questions given.
Modern society, with its size and complexity, ______________(A) few opportunities for direct democracy. Today, the most common form of democracy, whether for a town of 50,000 or a nation of 1 billion, is representative democracy, in which citizens select officials to make political decisions, formulate laws, and administer programmes for the public good. Ours is a representative democracy. Every _____________(B) has the important right to vote her/his representative. People elect their representatives to all levels from Panchayats, Municipal Boards, State Assemblies and Parliament. There has increasingly been a feeling that democracy ought to involve people more regularly and should not just mean casting a vote every five years. Both the ____________(C) of participatory democracy and decentralised governance have thus become popular. Participatory democracy is a system of democracy in which the members of a group or community participate collectively in the taking of major _______________(D). Both the procedures as well as the values that form Indian democracy have _______________(E) over the long years of India's anti-colonial struggle. In the last 70 years, since Independence, the success of Indian democracy has been seen as a/an ______________(F) feat for a country with such great diversity as well as inequality.
Select the most appropriate option for blank C.
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