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Study the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Critics of popular movements often argue that collective actions like strikes, sit-ins and rallies disrupt the functioning of the government, delay decision-making and destabilise the routines of democracy. Such an argument invites a deeper question: why do these movement resort to such assertive forms of action? We have seen that popular movements have raised legitimate demands of the people and have involved large scale participation of citizens. It should be noted that the groups mobilised by these movements are poor, socially and economically disadvantaged sections of the society from marginal social groups.

(i) Popular movements resort to which two types of assertive actions?

(ii) How far do you agree with the arguments given by the critics?

(iii) Why are groups involved in popular movements mostly from marginal social groups?

Answer:

(i) Popular movements resorts to generally two types of actions (a) Strikes, (b) Rallies.

(ii) We agree with the argument of critics that such movements disrupt the functioning of the government. The popular movements have raised legitimate demands of the people.

(iii) Mostly the groups mobilised by these movements are poor, socially and economically disadvantaged sections of the society from marginal social groups.