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Era of One-party Dominance
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Read the cartoon given below and answer the questions that follow:

See the cartoon given below and answer the questions that follow: (i) What does the cartoonist want to show ? (ii) Describe the role of opposition parties.

(i) What is the cartoonist impression of it ?

(ii) Describe the role of opposition parties.

Answer

(i)The cartoonist impression of the relative strenght of the opposition and the goverment.

(ii) The opposition parties succeeded gaining only a token representation in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies. Yet, these parties played a significant role by offering a sustained and often principled criticism of the policies and practices of the Congress Party. They kept the ruling party under check.

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The First General Elections in 1952 involved simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and ________ (The President of India/State Assemblies/Rajya Sabba/The Prime Minister)

The party that won the second largest number of Lok Sabha seats in the first elections was the _________ (Praja Socialist Party/Bharatiya Jana Sangh/Communist Party of India/Bharatiya Janata Party)

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Match the following leaders listed in List A with the parties in List B:

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In what sense was the Congress an ideological coalition ? Mention the various ideological currents present within the Congress.

Did the prevalence of a ‘one-party dominant system’ affect adversely the democratic nature of Indian politics ?

Bring out three differences each between Socialist parties and the Communist Party and between Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Swatantra Party.

What would you consider as the main differences between Mexico and India under one-party domination ?