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1. Political
Parties
By Mayank Pundhir
Class – 10th
Subject – Political Science
Subject Teacher – Gulfashan Azam

2. Contents
What Are Political
Parties ?
01.
Importance of
Political Parties
02.
National
Parties
03. State Parties
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05.
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Challenges on
Political Parties
How Political
Parties can be
reformed

3. Political Parties
In Most simple manner, Political Party
are institutions or groups that takes part
in elections and tries to grab power. All
parties have their unique aims and
goals and hence the voter has many
choices that, in which field he or she
wants the development.
Composition of Political
Parties
Political Parties have 3 main components
that are The Leaders, Active Members and
followers. These components make up a
whole working party.

4. Types of party systems
One party
System
Bi party
System
Multi party
System
In one Party
system, a
nation has only
one party ruling
the whole
country and
China in an
example of One
party System.
In Bi Party
system, a nation
has Two parties
contesting
elections for
power. USA and
UK are the
examples of Bi-
party system
In Multi Party
system, a nation
has many
parties
contesting
elections for
power. India is a
Good example
for Multi party
system.

5. Importance of Political
Party
• A democracy cannot exist without the
presence of a political party. This is clear
from the function performed by the political
parties because if parties were not formed,
an individual will rule on a country and that
will not be called democracy, it will be
called Dictatorship and you’ve already
studied the results of Dictatorship on a
country.
• Parties also help in making laws for the
country by debating on it’s advantages and
it’s disadvantages in the Assembly.

6. National Parties
India is a democratic country following a
federal system. Federal system indicates
that India is a group of states which has
it’s own government and also has a
central government. Therefore in India
there are two kinds of Political parties
National Parties and State Parties.
• National parties are those parties who
atleast secures 6% of votes in Lok
sabha elections or Assembly elections
in States and wins at least 4 seats in
the Lok Sabha.

7. Some National Parties of India

8. State Parties
• If a party succeeds in obtaining at
least 6% of the total votes in
Assembly election (Vidhan
Sabha) and wins atleast two
seats then the party is recognised
by Election Commision as a
“State Party”. These are also
called regional parties that are
limited to one state. For example
– Assam United Democratic front,
Janta Dal, Lok jana Shakti Party
and Sikkim Democratic front.

9. Some state parties of India

10. Challenges on Political Party
• Lack of Internal Democracy: In the political
parties, all decisions are taken by the leaders of the
party without considering the opinion of other
members of the party.
• Dynastic succession: In a Political party, chances
are that, if someone is a leader of a party, then after
them, they will present their leadership to
successive family member.
• Money And Muscle Power: During Elections,
parties are focussed on winning elections. Hence
they Nominate Rich Candidates and sometimes
they Support Criminals who can win the elections.
Thus money and muscle power influence Policies
and Decisions of the Party.

11. The political parties could be
reformed so as to overcome the
four challenges i.e. Lack of
Internal Democracy, Dynastic
Succession, Growing Money and
Muscle Power, Meaningful
choice ,but there are certain
other problems such as whether
the parties are willing to be
reformed, if no then why these
are not reformed, is it possible to
force them for reforming, and
most importantly what if
government refuse to reform.