political parties

• Various people expressed different statements and fears about the new party.
• Yunus made a right decision to float a new political party.
• The new party should be organised differently from other parties to stand out.
• If you were the one to begin this political party, how would you defend it?
• Parties have to be responsive to people’s needs and demands.
• In a democracy, a large number of similar opinions have to be grouped together to provide a direction in which policies can be formulated by the governments.
• More than 750 parties are registered with the Election Commission of India.
• A government is expected to base its policies on the line taken by the ruling party.
• Parties form and run governments.
• Parties shape public opinion by raising and highlighting issues.
• Parties provide people access to government machinery and welfare schemes implemented by governments.
• Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country.
• Political parties are a necessary condition for a democracy.
• Most of the members of the legislature belong to a party, hence they go by the direction of the party leadership, irrespective of their personal opinions.
• Opposition parties also mobilise opposition to the government.
• Parties reduce a vast multitude of opinions into a few basic positions which they then represent.
• Parties recruit leaders, train them and then make them ministers to run the government in the way they want.
• There are a large number of political parties in each country.
• For an ordinary citizen it is easy to approach a local party leader than a government officer.
• In a democracy, any group of citizens is free to form a political party.
• Modern democracies cannot exist without political parties.
• Political parties are groups of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government, agreeing on some policies and programmes for the society with a view to promote the collective good.
• Political parties are partial, partisan and lead to partitions, dividing people.
• Election Commission has officially banned wall writing by parties during election times.
• Most political parties argue that wall writing was the cheapest way for their campaign.
• Partisans are strongly committed to a party, group or faction, marked by a tendency to take a side and inability to take a balanced view on an issue.
• Parties try to persuade people why their policies are better than others and seek to implement these policies by winning popular support through elections.
• Parties reflect fundamental political divisions in a society, involving partisanship.
• A political party has three components: the leaders, the active members and the followers.
• Political parties fill political offices and exercise political power by performing a series of functions: parties contest elections, put forward different policies and programmes and the voters choose from them.
• A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government.
• The problem of bad politics can be solved by more and better politics.
• Some observers questioned if Muhammad Yunus was being planted in politics by mentors from outside the country.
• Parties are often rocked by scandals involving top party leaders.
• Some others were highly critical of Muhammad Yunus’ decision to launch a political party.
• Kanshi Ram is the founder of the Bahujan Samaj Party.
• The quality of democracy depends on the degree of public participation.
• Leaders of traditional political parties who dominated the country’s politics for decades were apprehensive about the launching of the new party by Muhammad Yunus.
• Political parties can improve if those who want this, join political parties.
• The launching of the new party, called Nagarik Shakti (Citizens’ Power), by Muhammad Yunus has caused a stir among the Bangladeshis.