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Era Of One-party Dominance

Question
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What would you consider as the main differences between Mexico and India under one-party domination ?

Solution
The main differences between Mexico and India under one-party domination were as given below :

Mexico

(i) In Mexico, the Institutional Revolutionary Party or the PRI dominated for almost sixty years.

(ii) PRI was mixture of various interests including political and military leaders, labour and Peasant organisations and political parties.

(iii) In Mexico, electoral laws were operated in a manner so as to ensure that the PRI always won. Elections were often rigged and manipulated by the ruling party.

(iv) In Mexico, tactics adopted by the PRI during the period of its dominance had a long term effect on the health of democracy. The citizens have yet to develop full confidence in the free and fair nature of elections.

India

(i) In India, Indian National Congress’s dominance was for about fifteen years.

(ii) Indian National Congress did not represent military leaders.

(iii) In India there were always fair and free elections.

(iv)The relations between the ruling party and the opposition were cordial.

Some More Questions From Era of One-party Dominance Chapter

The First General Elections in 1952 involved simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and ________ (The President of India/State Assemblies/Rajya Sabba/The Prime Minister)

The party that won the second largest number of Lok Sabha seats in the first elections was the _________ (Praja Socialist Party/Bharatiya Jana Sangh/Communist Party of India/Bharatiya Janata Party)

One of the guiding principles of the ideology of the Swatantra Party was ________ (Working class interests/ protection of Princely States/economy free from State control/Autonomy of States within the Union)

Match the following leaders listed in List A with the parties in List B:

Four statements regarding one-party dominance are given below. Mark each of them as true or false:

If Bharatiya Jana Sangh or the Communist Party of India had formed the government after the first election, in which respects would the policies of the government have been different ? Specify three differences each for both the parties.

In what sense was the Congress an ideological coalition ? Mention the various ideological currents present within the Congress.

Did the prevalence of a ‘one-party dominant system’ affect adversely the democratic nature of Indian politics ?

Bring out three differences each between Socialist parties and the Communist Party and between Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Swatantra Party.

What would you consider as the main differences between Mexico and India under one-party domination ?