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Recent Developments in Indian politics
Examine the developments that gave rise to the conflict between the Union
Government and the Judiciary in India.
Causes of confrontation between the Union Government and the Judiciary.
(i) Constitutional issue about the amendment to the Fundamental Rights.
(ii) Can the Parliament curtail the Right to Property by amending the constitution?
(iii) The Parliament amended and abridged the Fundamental Rights to implement DPSPs. But the Judiciary did not agree to this.
(iv) It is in the Keshvananda Bharti Case when the Judiciary asserted that the basic features of the constitution cannot be amended even by the Parliament.
(v) Filling up the vacancy of the Chief Justice of India by not appointing the senior most judge.
(vi) The climax of the confrontation was the ruling of the Allahabad High Court declaring Indira Gandhi’s election invalid.
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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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