 Good evening aspirants welcome to the hindi news analysis by shankara ace academy for the date 31st march 2021 these are the list of news articles chosen for today's analysis it has been provided along with the page numbers of different editions of hindi newspaper now let us start our analysis with this first news article which is regarding the voting rights of prisoners the news article mentions that out of the more than 15 000 convicts and under trials in the state of Tamil Nadu only 14 prisoners will be exercising their franchisee to vote in the upcoming assembly elections of Tamil Nadu and they include the detain news under preventive detention laws so in this context let us have an elaborate analysis on the voting rights of prisoners in India and we'll also see what is the global practice the syllabus relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference first you should know that article 326 of Indian constitution guarantees the right to vote to every citizen who is 18 years of age unless disqualified by any law now apart from this section 62 of representation of people's act of 1951 also ensures that every person who is in the electoral role of that constituency is entitled to vote so we can say that the right to cast vote is nothing but the right to vote and it is a constitutional right though it is not a fundamental right and here it should also be noted that the election commission of India from time to time has said that the right to vote is a statutory right see a statutory right means a right which is given to the entire population or a particular section of population by enacting a law so in this case the right to vote is a right given by the representation of people's act under section 62 and the clause one of section 62 tells that every person who is entered in the electoral role of any constituency for the time being shall be entitled to vote in that constituency except as provided in this act that is there are some exceptions provided in the act here electoral role means the list of persons who are eligible to vote in the elections so we can see that there are certain exceptions to this right that is there are some restrictions on who cannot vote in an election and one of the restrictions is that as per section 62 clause 5 any person who is confined in the prison is not eligible to vote and this is except those persons who are subjected to preventive detention that means only those under preventive detention can cause their vote through postal ballots see here you should understand that those who are confined in prisons or in police custody are of four categories they are remand prisoners under trial prisoners convicted prisoners and detainees in this remand prisoners are those prisoners who are arrested by police and they are in judicial custody before the beginning of trial in the court of law and then under trial prisoners are those prisoners who are in judicial custody after the beginning of the trial in the court of law but they have not yet proven guilty or they are not yet proven innocent and then a convicted prisoner is a person who was found guilty or who is convicted of committing offenses and who is serving sentence of punishment given by the court now from the above discussion you can say that except for the convicted prisoners all the others are not yet convicted but if you see the section 62 clause 5 it keeps all these three categories in the same footing on the other hand it also provides an exception for the written news see written news or those persons who are detained in prison that is those persons who are in the preventive detention in order to prevent them from committing any crime so now let us see some of the judicial verdicts regarding voting rights for prisoners in India India 1997 Supreme Court in its verdict had rejected the petition that sought the right to vote for prisoners and for this Supreme Court provided some reasons as to why such a ban was in place the first reason given was the resource crunch this is because permitting every person in prison also to vote could require deployment of much larger police force and also it would require greater security arrangements and second reason given was that a person who is in prison as a result of his or her own conduct cannot claim equal freedom and the third reason which was given was to keep persons with criminal background away from the election scene but we know that in reality this is not true because many of our politicians ironically have criminal cases registered against them and they themselves contested the elections now in this regard we should also recent petition in 2020 which was filed in Delhi High Court it also sought voting rights for prisoners in this petition petitioners argued that preventing prisoners from exercising voting rights was against article 14 and article 19 clause one sub clause a of Indian constitution as you know article 14 is regarding right to equality and article 19 clause one sub clause a is about right to freedom of expression but the Delhi High Court dismissed this petition saying that the facility was provided under the law and it can be taken away by law in this verdict High Court also quoted the supreme court where it said that supreme court has held that the right to cast vote was neither a fundamental right nor a common law right and it was only provided by a statute so so far in our country voting rights for prisoners that is all kinds of prisoners is not yet given but what is the global scenario what are the international practices if you see many european countries like Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Denmark and more are allowing prisoner voting and then countries like Romania, Iceland, Netherlands and Germany have opted for a middle part here what they do is voting is allowed subject to certain permits and conditions such as voting is allowed based on the quantum of sentence served etc then if you take countries like Iran, Israel and Pakistan they also provide rights to its prisoners to vote in elections and same as the case of countries like South Africa, Ghana and Kenya in the African continent here we should not forget that according to article 21 of universal declaration of human rights everyone has the right to take part in the government of their country either directly or even through freely chosen representatives and India is a signatory to this UDHR so we can conclude that India can consider giving voting rights to prisoners because we all know that elections encourages to speak about our disappointments and problems with the state of affairs in the country it also provides opportunity for us to campaign for our demands especially the societal demands so the denial of voting rights pushes the prisoners even further away from the society but rather our notion should be rehabilitating them and further a citizen without a vote in a democracy has no existence so let us hope that either the government or through any judicial intervention this matter finds a solution so that our democratic values are upheld so these are some of the points that you should know about voting rights for prisoners now let's move on to the next discussion this discussion is based on this oped article which talks about empowering women dairy farmers this article has been returned by the secretary to the ministry of fisheries animal husbandry and dairy so let us see what author has to say and we'll also see in brief about India's dairy sector the syllabus relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference first know that India is the world's largest milk producer with 22 percentage of global production India is followed by USA China Pakistan and Brazil so dating has become an important secondary source of income for millions of rural families and that is why dairy sector has assumed the most important role in providing employment and income generating opportunities to all particularly for the marginal farmers and the women farmers it is because in India most of the milk is produced by animals that are reared by small marginal farmers and landless labourers which also includes women so the sector assumes great importance in our economy and as per the available data as of 2018 about 16.6 million farmers that is around 1.66 crore farmers have been functioning in India under the dairy cooperative societies and there are more than 1.85 lakh village level dairy cooperative societies in India and in these societies women members are also being encouraged to assume leadership roles so in this regard as of 2018 the total number of women in dairy cooperatives across the country was around 49 lakhs which means women dairy farmers constitute 29.5 percentage of the total dairy farmers here author has also provided some recent estimates according to the author India has more than 1.9 lakh dairy cooperative societies which has nearly 6 million women members so we can say that dairy farming is one of the important enterprises which dominate the economic activities of women particularly in rural India but the women entrepreneurs in dairy sector have been facing several constraints which hinder their way for development and author has listed some of these constraints the major constraints faced by women dairy entrepreneurs include high cost of concentrate feed or cattle feed so when you say concentrate feed it means it is just a feed that is intensely focused on one class of nutrients for example we have the energy concentrate feed then protein concentrate feed etc then there is also lack of availability of veterinary literature in the sector then there is non-reminerative price for milk then there is poor irrigation facilities for going for the crops for the livestock elements etc so like these there are major constraints which are faced by the women entrepreneurs in the sector now along with this there is another major challenge which is the information asymmetry among farmers according to the author small and marginal farmers have access to only 50 to 70 percentage of the resources which the large and medium farmers usually have and this is where the role played by dairy cooperative societies is important according to the authors the role played by women dairy farmers was significant even in achieving the white revolution in India this white revolution is also known as operation flood and India's operation flood was the world's biggest dairy development program which gave a major thrust to the milk production in our country so this revolution was a testament to the success of the dairy cooperatives in our country and the benefit of these cooperatives was that a successful dairy cooperative provided much required backward linkages and forward linkages in the dairy value chain so when you say backward linkages it refers to the linkages from the farm to the part of non-farm sector that provides inputs for agricultural production for example agrochemicals are part of backward production linkages then when we talk about forward production linkages it refers to the part of the non-farm sector that uses agricultural output as an input so these were properly established by the dairy cooperatives thus the small farmers were also freed from the middlemen and they were also guaranteed the minimum procurement price for milk so these dairy cooperative societies address some of the challenges faced by the dairy farmers when we talk particularly about women in dairy sector a recent study has indicated that 93 percentage of women farmers who receive training alongside the financial support they have succeeded in their ventures it is because those who received financial aid alone had only the success rate of just 57 percentage but when they received training alongside this financial support the success rate was increased to 93 percentage and here comes the important role of national dairy development board because this board after realizing the need for institutionalized training organizes the farmers orientation programs across the country so in these programs women farmers are trained in scientific best practices on animal health, fodder quality, clean milk production and even in accounts management you just know that a national dairy development board has been constituted as a body corporate and it has been declared as an institute of national importance by an act of Indian parliament now to demonstrate how much this was successful author takes the example of Rajasthan one study in Rajasthan has showed that with the income through dating 31 percentage of women have converted their mud houses to cement structures and even 39 percentage of the women have constructed concrete sheds for their cattle so this indicates that dating provides them with better financial security and most importantly the study also found that women led cooperatives help women to break free from traditional roles and it encourages them to take up the leadership positions apart from this women in rural India who are mostly uneducated will understand the basics of finance and marketing because of the trainings provided in the sector so this is also a finding of this study and here also women's collective in the form of cooperatives plays a vital role because it furthers their knowledge and it improves their bargaining power and here one such successful example that can be taken is the Shrija Mahila milk production company in Andhra Pradesh according to the author this company started with only 24 women but now it has more than 90,000 members and it has an annual turnover of approximately 450 crore rupees so that means the financial support and the training provided in the sector by the data cooperative societies and also by the national data development board can help the women farmers in achieving financial security and empowerment so these are some of the points that you can take note from this opiate article now let's move on to the next discussion our next discussion is based on this news article which talks about the plight of Indian students who go for medical education in the Philippines the news article mentions that around 15,000 medical students go to Philippines every year this is mainly because of the easier admission criteria in Philippines and also lower fees than in India's private medical colleges but most of these students have complained about exploitation by the colleges and agents so in this regard it becomes important to know about India Philippines relations and we'll also see in brief about the geography of Philippines know that Philippines is an island country of Southeast Asia it is in the western pacific ocean it is an archipelago and it consists of around 7100 islands and islands and Manila is the capital of Philippines here you should note that Philippines takes its name from Philip II who was the king of Spain during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16th century now since it was under Spanish rule for hundreds of years and later it was under US protection for many years Philippines has many cultural affinities or similarities with the west so now let us discuss about India Philippines relations say India and Philippines formally established diplomatic relations in November 1949 shortly after both the countries gained independence you should note that Philippines gained independence before India in the year 1946 the relations between the two countries have been friendly and problem-free and both countries enjoy several historical shared values and commonalities also such as anti-colonialism south-south cooperation a strong democratic policy and independent judiciary and press and even the wide use of English language is common in both the countries now despite this the full potential of the relationship between the two countries is yet far from attainment you should note that when India launched her look east policy an intensified partnership with ASEAN in the year 1992 this resulted in intensified relations with the Philippines also and then when India initiated the act east policy in the year 2014 the relationship between Philippines has diversified further and now we have corporations in the political security area trade and also people-to-people relations additionally ASEAN and ASEAN-India relations have had a positive impact on the India Philippines bilateral relations also especially in the trade and investment areas here we should note the year 2017 as it was marked by unprecedented high-level exchanges between the countries this includes the visit of our prime minister to the Philippines and also the visit of Philippines president deuterates back-to-back visits apart from this the economic relations between the two countries have grown rapidly in the recent years in the year 2018 to 19 itself the bilateral relation had been around 2.32 billion US dollars in which exports from India stands at 1700 million dollars now coming to Indian community in the Philippines that is the Indian diaspora there there is an estimated 1.3 lakh Indians in the Philippines and mostly Punjabis and Sindhis constitute the bulk of the community and as we saw in the beginning Philippines is also a favorite destination for Indian medical students and then it also has attractive flight training schools because the instructions are in English and even the costs are quite cheap so these are some of the points that you should know about India- Philippines relations now let's move on to the next discussion our next discussion is based on this editorial article which is about an analysis of the structural weakness in our Indian society and Indian economy according to the author of this editorial India is concentrating on growth only in terms of GDP but it is ignoring the other important factors of development so let us see what author has to say and we'll also see the way forward in this regard the syllabus relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference now to establish this fact that India is ignoring other important factors of development author stresses the significance of this issue by citing the results of some important indices now one such index pointed out by author is the global hunger index as you know global hunger index is an annual report which is jointly published by concern worldwide and wealth hunger health it aims to comprehensively measure and track hunger at the global level regional and country levels now these global hunger index scores are calculated each year to assess the progress and setbacks in combating hunger and it is calculated based on four indicators these are undernourishment child wasting child stunting and child mortality as you know undernourishment is the share of population which are having insufficient caloric intake then child wasting is the share of children who are under age five and those who have low weight for their height and child wasting reflects acute under nutrition and then comes the child stunting it is the share of children who are under the age of five those who have low height for their age and child stunting reflects chronic under nutrition and then comes the child mortality it is the mortality of children under the age of five now based on the values of these four indicators the global hunger index determines hunger on a hundred point scale where zero is the best possible score that means there is no hunger and hundred is the worst score and as per the global hunger index of 2020 India was placed at 94th position out of 107 countries and India has a score of 27.2 now this shows the seriousness of food nutrition situation in India but instead of learning and improving from this index and its results Indian government was denying the findings of this index government also blamed the index for its wrong observation techniques and questioned the validity of the result now next important index pointed out by author is the world happiness report of 2021 this report is released by the UN sustainable development solutions network this network is an initiative launched in 2012 it operates under the auspices of united nations it mobilizes scientific and technical expertise in support of sustainable development goals now under the world happiness report released by this network countries are ranked by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be and the rankings are based on polling which looks at six variables and these variables are income freedom trust in government healthy life expectancy social support from family and friends and generosity so according to the 2021 world happiness report Indian citizens are amongst the least happy in the world India performed poorly with a very low rank of 144 so we can see that India's performed poor in an important indicator in the health sector and also performed poor in an index which talks about the well-being of its citizens so by citing these indices author tries to prove that there are structural flaws in our economy and these flaws have been particularly revealed by the pandemic as you know there was a recent report released by world bank in which it has noted that India's stock market rose during the pandemic and this made the very rich to become even richer but at the same time pandemic also increased the number of people who are poor in India and according to the world bank the number of people who are poor in India is estimated to have increased by 75 million that is 7.5 crores and this accounts for nearly 60 percentage of the global increase in poverty further during the pre-pandemic world the migrant labourers of India could move around freely at their will but in the new world this is not possible hence a new architecture of economic growth is required to create better lives for them and there is a need for Indian economy to grow to create more incomes for its billion plus citizens it is because until the citizens of all rise India will remain a poor country from the perspective of the majority of its citizens no matter how large its GDP is in addition to this author also stresses that the economic growth must no longer be at the cost of the environment so what is the way forward to address these issues according to the author India urgently needs a new strategy for growth and it should be based on new pillars and for this author suggests a broader progress measure we know that GDP does not account for vital environment and social conditions that contribute to human well-being and the sustainability of the planet these factors are usually ignored by economists in their rush to grow the economy so there is a need for a broader progress measure to evaluate the economy and such a measure should encompass important parameters like health of the environment conditions of societies public services equal access to opportunities etc then after this author suggests to address the flaws in the indices which we discussed see there are flaws in how these indices are calculated and there are also flaws in what measures are taken based on the results or findings of such indices we know that almost all the international frameworks for economic evaluation have universally applicable scorecards so the items measured in these frameworks are given these same weightages in all countries and that is why we call these frameworks as using a scientific approach now this scientific approach was developed to give objective rankings of countries but this objective approach misses the point that happiness and well-being are always subjective because what matters to people depends also on the conditions of the environment around them and it also varies from locality to locality so having a universal framework to measure the important indices may not always show the reality of the situation so how can this be done for this author suggests the involvement of local communities in finding their own solutions for improving the well-being of the society because only the local communities know the gravity of the situation as they are directly exposed to the situation by this author means that standard global solutions will neither make their conditions better nor it will make them happier so the local communities should be involved in the economic development of the society then author cites another important problem which is that we usually believe that wealth creators that is the large companies and well the individuals they are these peer headers or the leaders of India's growth we also believe that if India achieves 5 trillion dollar GDP target then its economic problems would go away but according to the author this perspective of growth is outdated and it should be put to rest instead of these perspectives communities must be allowed to find their own solutions to complex problems and they should also be allowed to assist in these solutions and finally author also believes that there is an indifferent apathetic attitude towards the downtrodden classes and castes of our society this is because most believe that the backwardness of backward classes is god-given and some even believe that the purpose of such downtrodden classes and castes is to do the dirty work which is necessary to keep the so-called upper caste clean and this attitude must change so along with the economic measures that should be taken the mentality of the society should also change that is why author concludes that India cannot achieve its full potential of growth by leaving behind a section of society so these are some of the points that you can take note from this editorial article now let's move to the next discussion now let us take up this article which talks about attacks refund or tax concession for scrapping vehicles see as you know for minimizing pollutions that are caused by old vehicles center has been aggressively pushing for early scrapping of old vehicles you may even recollect that as part of budget speech this topic was brought up by the finance minister also so later in the monsoon session the minister of road transport and highways talked about a new vehicle scrapping policy and in line with that a draft motor vehicles registration and functions of vehicle scrapping facilities rules of 2021 also was introduced now besides that the vehicle scrapping policy envisaged green taxes mandatory fitness test the registration of vehicles after 15 years etc additionally it was said that government will provide a tax rebate or refund on motor vehicle tax now in line with this only government has announced another draft legislation which is the central motor vehicles amendment rules of 2021 this draft legislation aims to insert a new rule 51 a into the central motor vehicles rules of 1989 now this rule 51 a is for concession in motor vehicles tax under this center has proposed up to 25 percentage tax concession on purchase of new vehicles now this will be given on submission of a scrapage certificate but the same tax relief will be only 15 percentage for the purchase of commercial vehicles so 25 percentage for personal vehicles and 15 percentage tax concession for commercial vehicles in addition to this in case of personal vehicles the tax concession will be available up to eight years but for commercial vehicles it will be for 15 years now this period will be calculated from the date of first registration of the vehicle so this is just a draft legislation and the government has invited suggestions on these rules within a period of 30 days after this the rule proposed will come into force from first of October of this year so here we saw that the concessions and rebates will be available to those who are presenting the certificate of vehicle scrapping so what is this certificate this certificate is obtained on junking or discarding and subsequently scrapping the vehicle that is over 15 years old and this has to be done in an authorized facility so what is scrapping when we say scrapping it means the entire process from receipt and record of ELV here ELV stands for end of life vehicles it refers to all vehicles which are no longer validly registered or which are declared unfit or their registrations have been cancelled or even which are self declared by the legitimate registered owner as a waste vehicle so these are called as end of life vehicles and scrapping means the entire process from the receipt and record of these ELVs so the scraping also includes depolluting dismantling segregation of material safe disposal of non reusable parts and issuance of certificate of vehicle scrapping to the registered owner of a motor vehicle now this certificate will be valid for 15 years for transport vehicle and it will be valid for eight years for non transport vehicles now according to the draft rules the certificate shall be issued in digital format by the authorized facility so we can see that government is framing draft vehicle scrapping policies and subsequent legislations required for that and this is showing India's commitment to climate sensitive policy making and these are some of the points that should know about the rules discussed in this news article now let's move on to the next discussion now let us take up this news article which talks about the discovery of a new subspecies of butterflies this is a subspecies of the six line blue butterfly and it has been named as nakadubha sinhala rameswamy and the species was discovered a decade ago in the agastya malay in the western guards see agastya malay is an 1868 meter tall peak in the western guards of south india this peak is a part of the agastya malaya biosphere reserve which lies on the border between the indian states of kerala and tamilladu and you should note that agastya malaya biosphere reserve is among the 20 new sites that were added by uniscoe in its world network of biosphere reserves now coming to the butterfly species as we saw its name is nakadubha sinhala rameswamy so this species has been named after lord rama and it signifies the connection across the sea to Sri Lanka and this is a lysinid butterfly which belongs to a nakaduba genus see lysinidae is the second largest family of butterfly species worldwide and they constitute about 30 percentage of the known butterfly species and we saw that it is a new subspecies of six line blue butterfly see the line blue butterflies are the small butterflies which belong to the subfamily lysinidae and their distribution ranges from india and Sri Lanka to the whole of southeastern asia australia and samoa i note that recently a group of lepidopterists have added the species to the expanding list of butterflies in india lepidopterist is a person who studies or collects moths and butterflies and this butterfly had been first cited by a team representing the travancore nature history society and bombay natural history society so this becomes the first time that a butterfly species was discovered by an all india research team from the western guards so these are some of the points you should note from this news article now let's move to the next discussion our last discussion for today is based on this news article which is with reference to an inscription of hoysala period and the pedestals which were recently found these are said to be ancient structures and they were found in the arsikre of karnataka and according to the sources this stone inscription was in karnataka so in this context let us have a brief understanding about the temple architecture of hoysala dynasty see most of the art and architectural remains that survive from the ancient and medieval india are religious in nature and this religious architecture is broadly classified into three styles and these three architectural styles are nagara in north dravidha in south and visara in dekan now in this the visara is a hybridized style that was created through the selective mixing of nagara and dravidha styles now this visara style school of architecture is mostly found in the southern part of dekan that is in karnataka and especially after the cholas and pandyas in south india the hoysalas of karnataka grew to prominence in south india and they became the most important patrons who were centered at mysore so the hoysala era which extended from 1026 c to 1343 c it was marked by illustrious achievements in art architecture and culture by the hoysala kings and here the center of this activity could be found in the present day hasan district of karnataka now let us come to the temple architecture in this period see they included a cuboid cell that is the garbagraha or even the sanctum sanctorium which houses essentially placed murti on the pitta here the murti is the enshrined icon and the pitta is the pedestal now in this architecture the shikara rises over the garbagraha the shikara is the superstructure and the shikara together with the sanctum they form the vimana of the temple then a ribbed stone called as amalaka is placed atop the shikara with a kalesh at its top then there is also an intermediate antarala which joins the garbagraha to an expansive billard mandapa in the front see this antarala is a small anti chamber between the garbagraha and the mandapa and this chiefly faces east or even sometimes north now the temple may be approached by entrances with gigantic gopurams which are the ornate entrance towers and these gopurams are over each doorway and then in this type of temple architecture several minor shrines and outbuildings are often present in the prakaram that is the temple courtyard here you should note that the vimanas in these temples are either stellate semi-stellate or orthogonal in plan stellate means they are arranged in a radiating pattern like that of a star and moreover the temples are made out of soap stone which is a relatively soft stone and hence the artists were able to carve their sculptures intricately now this can be seen particularly in the jewelry of the gods that add on the temple walls now talking about the temples the temples were built at par excellence during the hoysala dynasty and these include the kesava temple in belur then hoysalaishwara temple in halibidu and chenakeshava temple in somnathpuram now here note that the belur keshava temple complex was built by king vishnu vardhana in 1117 ad it was built in the memory of his victory against cholas in the thalkad and then the main temples of halibidu are the hoysalaishwara and kedarishwara temples in this the hoysalaishwara temple it was built by ketamala and it was attributed to vishnu vardhana now apart from the two hindu temples the halibidu temple complex also has two jain temples now next comes the somnathpura chenakeshava temple it lies in the myso district of karnataka the temple was built by hoysala commander somnath in the 1268 ad and here you should note that the temples in belur halibidu and in somnathpura were nominated for seeking the unosco world heritage site status so they are currently in the tentative list of unosco world heritage site so this is in brief about the hoysala architecture now let's move on to the next discussion now we have come to the last session the practice questions discussion session let us take up this previous question that was asked in problems 2012 the question asks the nagara the dravidha and the vesara are the three main racial groups of the indian subcontinent three main linguistic divisions into which the languages of india can be classified three main styles of indian temple architecture three main musical gharanas prevalent in india and as we discussed in the last article the correct answer is option c three main styles of indian temple architecture now this next question is a map based question it asks the philippine archipelago is bounded by which of the following seas celebsi solusi south china sea see the philippine archipelago is bounded by the philippine sea to the east then the celebsi to the south and the solusi to the southwest and also it borders the south china sea to the west and to the north so the correct answer is option d one two and three now this next question is a four statement question first statement is these temples are easily distinguishable from other medieval temples by their highly original star like ground plants and the profusion of decorative carvings these temples are made out of soap stone these temples themselves are sometimes built on a raised platform or jagathi which is used for the purpose of pradakshinapada statement four the chenna keshava temple in somnath puram is a fine example of this type of temple architecture so even if you don't know about the three statements you can easily identify the answer with the fourth statement the question asks the statement is given above refer to the temple architecture of which of the following they are nasty and the correct answer is option b hoysalas now this next question asks recently nakaduba sinhada ramaswamy was seen in news this refers to what new eel species discovered in west pingal new flower species discovered in northeast india new butterfly species discovered in south india new frog species discovered in western guards and the correct answer is option c new butterfly species discovered in south india now let us take another previous equation that was asked in 2017 the question asks right to vote and to be elected in india is a fundamental right natural right constitutional right legal right and as we discussed today the correct answer is option c constitutional right it is guaranteed by article 326 of indian constitution now this next question is also about right to vote in india first statement is in india right to cast a vote is a constitutional right this statement is correct just now we saw now the second statement is according to the representation of people act of 1951 all persons who are confined in a prison are not eligible to vote now this statement is incorrect because we saw that according to this act and as per section 62 clause 5 any person who is confined in a prison is not eligible to vote except for those who are subjected to preventive detention that means only those under preventive retention can cast their vote through postal ballots so this statement is an incorrect statement and the question asks for the incorrect statements only so the correct answer is option b 2 only now let us take two main questions one is based on gs paper 2 and one is based on gs paper 1 you can answer these questions and post it in the comment section with this we have come to the end of today's indian news analysis and the practice questions discussion session if you like the video don't forget to like comment and share and do subscribe to shankar iis academy youtube channel for more updates related to civil service examination preparation