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Chapter At A Glance
- Role of political parties in democracy is very important and they are also very important in the formation of constitutional designs, in electorial politics and in working of government.
- Political parties are the vehicles of federal sharing of political power and are negotiator of social divisions in democratic politics.
- A political party is a group of people whose ideology is same and who comes closer to each other so that they can contest elections to win over the majority.
- All political parties should have three components - leaders to lead, active members to work and the followers to give help in winning the elections.
- Political parties do a number of things like to contest elections, put forward different policies and programmes, make laws when in power, form and run the government, shape public opinion and provide people's access to government machinery and welfare schemes.
- Due to complexity and largeness of society political parties came into being so that their responsible members could form the government.
- Many types of party systems are there. One party system means country has only one political party, two party system means country has only two political parties and multi - party system means country has many political parties.
- National parties are those which are very large in size and which have their units in various states and regional parties are those political parties which are confined only to any particular region.
- Election Commission of India has recognized only six National Parties i.e. INC, BJP, BSP, CPI (M), CPI, NCP and rest of the others are state parties.
- This is the age of alliance. Because of emergence of regional political parties it is not possible for one party to get majority in the elections. That is why all the major political parties are going for an alliance with regional parties.
- Political parties, these days, are facing a number of challenges like lack of internal democracy, dysnastic succession, growing role of money and muscle power, do not offer a meaning choice, etc.
- These days defection from the party is not possible because amendment of Constitution has prevented it, unless MLA or M.P. will lose his seat.
Important Terms & Their Explanation
- Partisan : Any person who is a very strongly and whole heartedly commited to a party, faction or group.
- Ruling Party : Any political party which runs the government is ruling party.
- Bi-party System : Any country with only two political parties has bi-party system.
- Defection : Change in the allegiance from the party on whose ticket person is elected to a legislature to other party.
- Affidavit : A written statement made by somebody who swears that it is true and that can be used as a evidence in the court or a signed document regarding his or her personal information.
- Opposition : A political party which is a part of legislature but is not a part of government.
- National Party : Any political party which has its units all over the country and which is recognized by Election Commission as national party.
- Regional Party : Any political party which is confined only to a particular area or region and is not in a position to be recognized as a National Party.