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Important Questions
Political Science Chapter-6
Political parties

5 marks Questions

1. Explain elements of four basic elements of Political Party.

Ans. 1. National and Regional Interest: Political parties have national and regional interests.
Their main aim is to promote national interests.

2. Constitutional Interest: A political party must follow the constitutional means in a peaceful
manner in order to capture political power.

3. Organisation: The member of political party with concern interest forms a organization
that is political party.

4. Common Aim: Its members must have a similar and unanimous opinion regarding public
matters and issues

2. “Increase in the number of states or regional parties strengthen democracy in India”.

Justify the state with suitable examples.

Ans. India is federal country and the powers of the Government are divided into different
levels. Decentralization of power means expansion of democracy. If the number of state or
regional parties is increasing it means the people of our country are becoming more aware
and they are not happy with the working of existing political parties. In these days regional
parties have a say in political policies as they win elections in their states. The national
political parties have to take help of the regional parties to win the elections or to form the
government. The rise of collision governments broadened the concept of popular
participation. It also strengthen the federal system of the democracy.

3. State the various functions political parties perform in a democracy.

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Ans. 1. Political parties contest elections. In most democracies, elections are fought mainly
among the candidates put up by the parties. Parties select their candidates in different ways.

2. Parties’ forward different policies and programs and voters choose them from. Each of us
may have different opinions and views on what policies are suitable for society. A
government is expected to base its policies on the line taken by the Ruling Party.

3. Parties play a decisive role in making laws foe a country. Laws are debated and passed in
the legislature. But most of the members of legislature are the members of political parties.

4. Parties form and run the Governments. As we noted last year, the big policy decision are
taken by political executive that comes from the political parties.

5. Those parties that lose in the elections play the role of opposition of the parties in power,
by voicing different views and criticizing government for its failure or wrong policies.

4. The political scene is the mass of many parties. How do politicians manage these
coalitions? Give your opinion.

Ans. It is true that presently political scene is dominated by many political parties. Many
National and Regional Political parties are working at local level and regional level. If we
take this concept in positive sense we will find out the following conclusions

1. Many political parties give chance of popular participation

2. Many political parties give choice to the people

3. Give a chance for equal representation to everyone

4. His system has strengthens the federal system and democracy of the country.

5. The politicians do manage these coalitions by giving proportional representation to all

emerging political parties and their members

5. Suppose, you are going to form a political party. What ideology would you like to
keep in mind? Explain.

Ans. 1. Aim and objective: Secularism, patriotism, no place for casteism, welfare of women.

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Promotion of weaker sections and minorities and above all economic development would be
the basis of our country.

2. Internal Democracy: We would promote internal democracy. There would be routine

organizational elections for various party posts.

3. No favoritism: In many political parties the most important posts is held by the member
of a particular family and it takes inheritable nature. This neglects the rights of other
deserving leaders and damage democratic values. Our party would choose the leaders for
top post through internal elections.

4. No role of money and Muscle power: There would be a place for money and muscle
power to win elections.

5.People’s participation: We would include those policies in our manifesto that would
encourage people’s participation in the political system.

6. How would you explain the situation without political parties in country?

Ans. 1. We can understand the necessity of political parties by imagining a situation

without parties.

2. The every candidate in the elections will be independent. So no one will be able to make
any promise to the people about any major policy changes.

3. The government will be formed but its utility will remain ever uncertain.

4. Elected representatives will be responsible only to their constituency and not for the
entire country.

5. But no one will be responsible for how the country run.

6. Elections without political parties will also be responsible for the disintegration of the
country.

7. What is Multi-Party system? Discuss the merits and demerits of multi-party system.

Ans. Multi-Party system: If several parties compete for power and more than two parties

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have a reasonable chance of coming into power, either own strength or in alliance with
other, we call it multi-party system.

Merits:
1. This system allows a variety of interests and opinions.
2. People can take a choice between several candidates.

Demerits:
1. No one party is likely to gain power alone. Therefore, it is difficult in formation of
government.
2. It leads to political instability.

8. Explain the meaning of a Political Party. Mention its components. Name any two
recognized national parties in India.

Ans. A political party is a group of people that come together to contest elections and hold
power in the government. They agree on some policies and programs for the society with a
view to promote the collective good. Since there can be different views on what is good for
all, parties try to persuade people as to why their policies are better than others. They seek to
implement these policies by winning popular through elections.

Components of Political Party:

1. The leaders.
2. The active members.
3. The followers.

Two recognized national parties:

1. Bhatatiya Janta party
2. Indian National Congress

9. Examine the concept ‘use of money and muscle power’ in the Political Parties.

Ans. 1. The role of money and muscle power in parties, especially during elections.
2. Since parties are focused only on winning elections, they tend to use short-cuts to win
elections.

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3. They tend to nominate those candidates who are or can raise lots of money.
4. Rich people and companies who give funds to the parties tend to have influence on the
policies and decisions of the party.
5. In some cases parties support criminals who can win elections.
6.Democracies all over the world are worried about the increasing role of rich people and
big companies in democratic politics.

10. Examine the concept ‘Dynastic succession’ in the Political Parties.

Ans. 1. Most political parties do not practice open and transparent procedure for their
functioning; there are very few ways for an ordinary worker to rise to the top in a party.
2. Those who happen to be the leaders are in a position of unfair advantage to favour
people close to them or even their family members.
3. In many parties the top positions are always controlled by members of one family. This
is unfair to other members of that party.
4. This is also bad for democracy, since people who do not have adequate experience or
popular support come to occupy positions of power.
5. This tendency is present in some measure all over the world, including in some of the
older democracies.

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