TextBook Solutions for Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education Class 12 Political Science Politics In India Since Independence Chapter 9 Recent Developments In Indian Politics

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Mandal Recommendations and Anti Reservation Stir

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Formation of the Janata Dal

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The demolition of Babri Masjid

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Assassination of Indira Gandhi

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The formation of NDA government

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Godhra incident and its fallout

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Formation of the UPA government

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 ________.”