Explain how the activities of pressure groups are useful in the functioning of a democratic government.
They exert influence on politics of a democratic country in a variety of ways :
(i)They try to gain public support and sympathy for their goals and activities by carrying out information, campaigns, organising meetings, file petitions etc. Most of these groups try to influence the media into giving more attention to these issues.
(ii) They often organise protest like, strikes to disrupt government programmes. Workers’ organisations form pressure groups or movement groups and these may also participate in official bodies and committees that offer recommendation to the government.
(iii) Pressure groups and most of their movements, generally, have deepened democracy. Putting pressure on the rulers is not an unhealthy activity in a democracy if it is in good for all.
