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Proportional representation would have been better for India

Proportional representation offers better representation of the entire electorate's views

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Devangshu Datta
During elections in Ex-PM Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe,  citizens would be ordered to queue up and sign a folded, filled-in ballot paper, which they would then put into the box. If any innocent dared to ask, "Who am I voting for?" the stock answer was, "It's a secret ballot". 

That's pretty much the only type of election, which doesn't produce surprising results. As Kenneth Arrow proved, it's mathematically impossible to create a fair election process that cannot throw up unfair outcomes, given at least three candidates.  

To take a simple case, assume seven voters have to choose between three candidates, A, B and
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