Answer:
A
political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and
hold power in the government. All over the world people express strong
dissatisfaction about the performance of the political parties. In order to
remain effective instrument of democracy, political parties need to overcome
some challenges.
These are
(i) The first challenge is Lack
of-democracy with in parties.
(a) All over the world there is a
tendency in political parties towards die concentration of powers in one or few
leaders at die top.
(b) Parties do not keep membership registers, do not hold organisational
meetings and do not conduct internal elections regularly.
(ii) The second challenge is dynastic succession where the
top positions of a party are always enjoyed by members of one particular
family. This trend is harmful for other members of the party as well as for
democracy. This tendency is present in some measures all over the world.
(iii) The third challenge is about the growing role of
money and muscle power in parties which is specially observed during elections.
Rich people and companies who give funds to die parties always have a say on
the policies and decisions of the party.
(iv) The fourth challenge is that very often parties do
not seem to offer a meaningful choice to the voters. In our country, the
difference among all die major parties on the economic policies have reduced.
Sometimes the same set of leaders keep shifting from one party to another, thus
people have no option available to them.
One part. of this answer may come in the examination.
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