CIVICS 2019 Board Paper
Chapter-6: Political Parties
3 marks
Q1: How are political parties
recognized as regional and national parties in India? Explain with examples.
The election commission gives regulation to the parties as
regional and national party on following basis.
1.
REGIONAL PARTY: A party to
secure at least six percent of the total votes in an election to the
Legislative Assembly of a state and win at least two seats.
Example: Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena, DMK etc.
2.
NATIONAL PARTY: A party that
secures at least six percent of the total votes in Lok Sabha election or
Assembly in four states and wins at least four seats in Lok Sabha.
Example: BJP, Indian National Congress,
Bahujan Samaj Party etc.
Q:2 Explain the three components of
‘political party’.
Three components of Political Party:
1.
The leaders: The leaders are the ones who hold
positions of power in the party. They
formulate policies and programs of the party and choose candidates for
contesting elections.
2.
The active members: Political parties comprise of lakhs of
members and political activists across the entire nation. They play an
important role in promoting the agenda of the party. The are involved in different committees of the party and participate
directly in their activity.
3.
The followers: Who believe in the
party’s ideology and support the party by casting their votes in favor of the
party at the time of the election.
Q3: Explain any 3 functions of
opposition political parties.
Functions of opposition political party:
1. Those parties that lose in the elections play the role
of opposition to the parties in power, by voicing different views and
criticising government for its failures or wrong policies.
2. Opposition Parties shape public opinion. They raise and
highlight issues. Parties have lakhs of members and activists spread all over
the country. Many of the pressure groups are the extensions of political
parties among different sections of society.
3. Opposition Parties sometimes also launch movements for
the resolution of problems faced by people.
5 marks
Q4: Identify and list the following
political parties as National and Regional political parties :
(i) National Conference Regional Party
(ii) Shiromani Akali Dal
(iii) D.M.K.
(iv) Nationalist Congress Party National Party
(v) Bharatiya Janata Party
(vi) Shiv Sena Regional Party
(vii) Forward Bloc
(viii) Janata Dal (U)
(ix) Rashtriya Janata Dal Regional Party
(x) Samajwadi Party Regional Party
Q5: Identify and list the symbols of
the following political parties with their States :
(i) Shiromani Akali Dal Punjab Taraju
(ii) Samajwadi Party UP Cycle
(iii) A.I.A.D.M.K. Tamil Nadu 2 Leaves
(iv) Trinamool Congress West Bengal flowers & grass
(v) Rashtriya Janata Dal Bihar Laltern
Q6: Names of five States are given below. Write the name of any one regional political party of each State with election symbol.
(i) Jammu & Kashmir
National
Conference Chidiya (Bird)
(ii) Tamil Nadu AIADMK Two Leaf
(iii) Maharashtra Shiv Sena Dhanush Bann
(iv) Assam Assam United
Democratic Front
Tala Chabi
(v) Uttar Pradesh Samajwadi Party Cycle
Q7: Explain the role of Political
Parties in a democracy
Role of Political Parties in democracy
Q8: What is a political party ?
Explain any four characteristics of a political party.
A political party is a group of people who come together to
contest elections and hold power in the government. Characteristics of
political party
Q9: Explain any five functions of the
ruling party.
Q10: Highlight any five functions of
political parties to strengthen democracy.
Five functions of political parties to strengthen democracy
are-
1. 1. Parties contest elections. Elections are
fought mainly among the candidates put up by political parties. Parties select
their candidates in different ways. In some countries, such as the USA, members
and supporters of a party choose its candidates. In other countries like India,
top party leaders choose candidates for contesting elections.
2. 2. Parties put forward different policies and
programmes and the voters choose from them. Each of us may have different
opinions and views on what policies are suitable for the society. But no
government can handle such a large variety of views. A party reduces a vast
multitude of opinions into a few basic positions which it supports.
3. 3. Parties play a decisive role in making laws
for a country. Formally, laws are debated and passed in the legislature. But
since most of the members belong to a party, they go by the direction of the
party leadership, irrespective of their personal opinions.
4. 4. Parties form and run governments. Big policy
decisions are taken by political executive that comes from the political
parties. Parties recruit leaders, train them and then make them ministers to
run the government in the way they want.
5. 5. Those parties that lose in the elections play
the role of opposition to the parties in power, by voicing different views and
criticising government for its failures or wrong policies. Opposition parties
also mobilise opposition to the government.
6. 6. Parties shape public opinion. They raise and
highlight issues. Parties sometimes also launch movements for the resolution of
problems faced by people.
7. 7. Parties provide people access to government
machinery and welfare schemes implemented by governments.
Q11: Explain the necessity of
Political Parties in a democracy
Necessities of Political Parties are-
Q12: Why do we need political parties
? Highlight any five reasons.
Q13: Explain any five needs to have
political parties in a democratic country.
Need of Political Parties:
i. We need political parties because they perform different
functions.
ii. Every candidate will be independent without a political
party and will not be able to make any promise to the people about any major
policy and programme.
iii. Government may be formed without political party but
its utility will remain ever uncertain.
iv. Independent candidate will be accountable to their
constituency only but, no one will be responsible for how the country will run.
v. The rise of Political parties are directly linked to the
emergence of representative democracies.
vi. As societies became large and complex, they also need
some agency to gather different views on various issues and to present these to
the government.
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