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Recent Developments in Indian politics
This dispute is associated with a mosque known as Babri Masjid because some Hindus believe that it was built after demolishing a temple of Lord Rama which was birth place of Lord Rama. The mosque was locked as per court orders in late 1940s. The Faizabad District Court in 1986 ordered to unlock the Babri Masjid premises as for Hindu to offer prayers at the site which they considered as temple. In opposition to this Muslim organisations had tried to mobilise their communities. This large scale mobilisation led to surcharged atmosphere and many instances of communal violence and ultimately ended with the demolition of Babri Mosque in December 1992 by Karsevaks.
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Party politics in India has confronted numerous challenges. Not only has the Congress system destroyed itself, but the fragmentation of the Congress coalition has triggered a new emphasis on self-representation which raises questions about the pary system and its capacity to accommodate diverse interests.....An important test facing the polity is to evolve a party system or political parties that can effectively articulate and aggregate a variety of interests. —Zoya Hasan
(a) Write a short note on what the author calls challenges of the party system in the light of what you have read in this chapter.
(b) Give an example from this chapter of the lack of accommodation and aggrigation mentioned in this passage.
(c) Why is it necessary for parties to accommodate and aggregate variety of interests ?
‘1989 elections marked the end of what the political scientists have called the ________.”
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