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Recent Developments in Indian politics
(i) It was out of BAMCEF that the subsequent Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti and later the Bahujan Samaj Party emerged under the leadership of Kanshi Ram.
(ii) The party got support largely from the Dalit voters in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
(iii) In 1989 and 1991 elections, it achieved breakthrough in UP mainly with the support of Dalit voters.
(iv) BSP, under kanshi Ram's leadership was envisaged as an organisation based on pragmatic politics.
(v) BSP has emerged as a major political player in the UP state and has been in government on more than one occasion.
(vi) Its strongest support still comes from Dalit voters, but it has expanded its support now to various other social groups in many parts of India.
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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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