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1.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than on caste,creed and race.
2.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than caste,creed and race
3.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than on the basis of their caste,creed and race.

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1.Rather caste, creed or race, people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies .
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1.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than on caste,creed and race.
2.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than caste,creed and race
3.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than on the basis of their caste,creed and race.

which one of these is correct? please help me out..
1 is correct. Also if you translate this into Urdu, it can help you pick the right answer.
Awam umeedwaro ko karkardagi or policy ki bunyad par muntakhab karte hai na ke zaat, mazhab ya nasal ki bunyad par.
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1 is correct
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1.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than on caste,creed and race.
2.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than caste,creed and race
3.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than on the basis of their caste,creed and race.

which one of these is correct? please help me out..
1 and 3 are incorrect. There is no need to put ,,on,, after ,,rather than,, in sentence 1. its unnecessary.The same mistake has been repeated in 3. sectence 2 also needs some modification. After ,,rather than,, there is need to add ,,their,, which will clear the sense. However no grammatical ,,blunder,, can be seen in prima facie.
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1.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than on caste,creed and race.
2.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than caste,creed and race
3.people elect candidates on the basis of their performance and policies rather than on the basis of their caste,creed and race.

which one of these is correct? please help me out..
1 is right as well as precise. We need "on" in the second part of the sentence to be in conformity with the first part "on the basis ..."

2. is wrong. The first part talks about the "basis of performance" which is parallel to "basis of caste, basis of creed" and not parallel to just "caste"... simply on basis of caste is parallel to on basis of performance/on performance...

3. Is right but awkward and redundant. "on" conveys what "on the basis of" wants to say.

Parallelism is important here.
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This house is a bad blood between two brother.
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This house is a bad blood between two brother.
Yes the sentence is correct except the missing s in two brother.
Usually, we give reason or source when using Bad Blood as an idiom. But, the above can also be used. (idiomatic) A serious feud or long-standing grudge.
We would write :This house is a bad blood between two brothers.
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