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Political Parties

Grade 10
Class Notes
Concepts Covered

Introduction to Functions of
political parties political
parties

Political
Parties

Challenges and
Party system in
reforms for
India
political parties
Political Parties

What Are Political Parties?


• A group of people who come together to contest elections
and hold power in the government.

• Political parties have three components: leaders, active


members, and followers.

Functions of Political Parties

Put forward various


Contest elections,
schemes and
form and run the
programs before the
government
voters
Functions of
Political
Parties
Shape public opinion, Play an
raise and highlight important role in
issues concerning making laws for
the common citizens a country

Opposition parties
criticise the ruling
government
Single party system: Only a single party
wins elections and forms the
government
Example: Cuba and China

Two party system: Only two parties


Types of
have a serious chance of winning
Party elections
Systems Example: USA and UK

Multi party system: More than two


parties have a serious chance of
winning elections
Example: India and France

Party System in India

National parties Regional parties

Participate in different elections Participate in elections within a


all over India region or a state

Must be strong in at least Electoral symbol reserved for


four states across the country them in respective states

Have an exclusive electoral Examples: DMK, AIADMK, BJD,


symbol and RJD

Examples: BJP, INC, and AAP


Some Important Political Parties

Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP):


It was founded in 1980 by reviving the
former party Bhartiya Jana Sangh formed
by Syama Prasad Mukherjee in 1951.
It wants to build a strong and modern
India derived from ancient
cultures and Deendayal Upadhyaya's
ideas of integral humanism and
Antyodaya.

Indian National Congress (INC):


It is one of the oldest parties in the
world founded in 1885 and has
experienced many splits. It played a
significant role after India’s
independence.
Under the leadership of
Jawaharlal Nehru, the party
aimed to build India into a
secular democratic republic.

Important Questions

Q1: What is meant by a political party? What are its


components? (3 marks)
Q2: Name the national political party which gets
inspiration from India’s ancient culture and values.
Mention four features of that party. (5 marks)
Q3: What is meant by a ‘national political party’? State
the conditions required to be a national political party.
(5 marks)
Challenges to Political Parties

In many parties, the


In most parties, power
top positions are
is concentrated in the
occupied by
hands of a few
members of the
leaders.
same family.
Challenges to
Political
Parties
Rich people who fund
Most of the time, the
parties tend to have
contesting parties
an influence on the
vary very little in their
decisions of the
ideologies.
parties.

The anti-defection law prevents


defections from one party to another for
political or monetary rewards and
contesting candidates have to disclose
their property details.

A law should be made to regulate the


Reforms for
internal affairs of parties and holding
Political organizational elections should be
Parties made compulsory.

There should be state funding of


elections and parties should reserve a
minimum number of tickets for women
candidates.

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