Political parties

• Political parties are a link that connects common people, democracy, representation and elections.
• Political parties exist in all democratic systems.
• Political parties compete with each other only in a democracy.
• In the last chapter, we studied the working of constitution and election procedure.
• Regionalism is a concept in politics.
• Political parties act as a link between government and people.
• Political parties are social organisations.
• National Parties are a category in politics.
• Shiromani Akali Dal is a national party.
• Coalition politics leads to instability.
• Political parties are also a kind of social organisations, but there is a difference between political parties and other institutions and organisations in society.
• When people form organisations with the objective of achieving political power and participate in the electoral process, such organisations are called political parties.
• Political parties can be described as a group of people who aim to contest elections, win elections and get power and establish the government of their party.
• Achieving power through elections is the main objective of political parties.
• Different political parties compete with each other to get power.
• Every political party has some policies and world views, which together make party ideology.
• The people who consider any specific party ideology as acceptable support that political party.
• Communist Party of India secured 04 seats in 2009 and 01 seat in 2014.
• Number of seats secured by National parties in Loksabha elections of 2009 and 2014.
• Bharatiya Janata Party secured 116 seats in 2009 and 282 seats in 2014.
• Indian National Congress secured 206 seats in 2009 and 44 seats in 2014.
• All India Trinamool Congress Party was established in 1998.
• Communist Party of India (Marxist) secured 16 seats in 2009 and 09 seats in 2014.
• Nationalist Congress Party secured 09 seats in 2009 and 06 seats in 2014.
• Election Commission gave the party recognition as national party in 2016.
• The party supports democracy, secularism and protection of interests of weaker sections of the society.
• Bahujan Samaj Party secured 21 seats in 2009 and - seats in 2014.
• Social support received by a political party is called the ‘mass base’ of political party.
• In modern days, ideologies of all political parties appear to be similar hence it has become difficult to differentiate between the parties on the basis of ideologies.
• Political parties prepare their party’s agenda on the basis of party ideology and implement the agenda after they get political power.
• Even if they do not get political power, political parties try to get support of people on the basis of this agenda.
• Political parties establish the government and govern the nation.
• The political party which gets majority in elections forms the government.
• The parties which do not get majority act as opposition parties.
• Political parties work as a link between the Government and the people.
• The Congress was a strong political party in the post-independence period.
• Indian politics was controlled by the Congress Party during the Era of 'Single dominant party system'.
• In fact, the coalition government system as stabilised in India.
• The party believes in democratic socialism, social equality and international peace.
• Opposition parties held a meeting in Mumbai to resist the Ruling party.