Political Parties NCERT questions class 10th

This is the last part of the series. Part 3 of political parties

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2. NCERT
Questions L-3
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3. Describe the three major components of a political party.
1.The Leaders: Who formulate policies and programs of the party and
choose candidates for contesting elections.
2.The Active Members: Who are involved in different committees of the
party and participate directly in their activity.
3.The Followers: Who believe in the party’s ideology & support the party
by casting their votes in favor of the party at the time of the election.
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4. State the various functions political parties perform in a democracy.
Answer
1. Political parties contest elections.
2. Parties put forward different policies and programmes.
3. Play an important role in decision-making.
4. These parties, when successful in elections, form and run the
government.
5. These parties, if they lose, become the opposition parties and play
the role of criticizing the government.
6. Parties shape public opinion.
7. Parties provide people access to government machinery and
welfare schemes.
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5. What is a political party?
Answer
A political party is a group of people who come together to contest
elections and hold power in the government. They agree on some
policies and programmes for the society, with a view to promoting
the collective good.
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6. What are the characteristics of a political party?
Answer
Characteristics of political parties:
1.They have members that are interested in the same policies and
programmes.
2.They seek to implement policies that are beneficial to citizens.
3.There are 3 components of political parties: the leader, the active
members, and the followers.
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7. What are the various challenges faced by political parties?
Answer
1. The parties are lacking internal democracy, which keeps many
prospective leaders deprived of their rights.
2. There have been dynastic successions in many political parties.
3. The parties sometimes indulge in the use of money and muscle
power for winning elections. This hampers development and is
against the spirit of democracy.
4. There is lack of meaningful choice before the voters.
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8. Previous
year
Questions
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9. Very Short
Answer
Type
Questions
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10. Q.1.Which of the following is the most visible institutions in a
democracy?
Ans: Political parties
Q.2. How many political parties are registered with the election
commission of India?
Ans: More than 750
Q3. What is the full form of BJP?
Ans: Bhartiya Janta Party.
Q.4. How many political parties were recognized as National parties in
India in 2019?
Ans: 07
Q.5. How many Lok sabha constituencies are there in India at present?
Ans: 543
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11. Q.6. Which state consists of the largest Lok sabha constituency in
India?
Ans: Uttar Pradesh
Q.7. What is the full form of NDA
Ans: National Democratic Alliance
Q.8. Which party system followed in India
Ans: Multiparty system
Q.9. What is Bye-election?
Ans: Elections held to fill a vacancy caused by the death or any other
reasons.
Q.10. Who is the founder of the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP)
Ans: Kanshi Ram
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12. Q.11. Who chooses the candidate for contesting elections in India?
Ans. Top party leaders.
Q.12. USA has _______________.
Ans. Two party system.
Q.13. Which political party is famous in Great Britain?
Ans. Labour Party
Q.14. How many parties are registered with the election commission of
India?
Ans. More than 750 parties.
Q.15. Write two components of political party.
Ans. (i) Leaders
(ii) Active Members.
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13. Short
Answer
Type
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14. Q.1. Why do we need political parties ?
Ans.
1. Political parties are easily one of the most visible institutions
in a democracy.
2. For most ordinary citizens, political parties are equal to
democracy.
3. Political parties helped in making public opinion and farming
the govt.
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15. Q.2. Describe the merits of a multiparty system in three points.
Ans.
1.More than two parties have a reasonable chance of coming to
power either on their own strength or in alliance with others
2.This system allows a variety of interests and opinions to enjoy
political representation.
3.In India we have multi-party system and the coalition govt. for
last 15 years which benefits all sections of the population
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16. Q.3: - What are the characteristics of a political party?
Ans.
1.It is a group of people coming together to contest elections and
share power.
2. It agrees on some policies and programmes for the society with a
view to promote collective good.
3. It lends to implement their policies by viewing popular support
through elections.
4. It is known by which part it stands for, which policies it supports and
whose interest it upholds.
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17. Q.5 What is meant by regional political party. State the conditions required
to be recognised as a ‘regional political party’.
CBSE 2016
Regional political parties are those which are present in one or a few units of
federation in a country which follows the federal system.
Conditions required for a party to be recognised as regional political party:
1.A party that secures at least six per cent of the total votes in an election to
the Legislative Assembly of a State.
2.Wins at least two seats is recognised as a State party.
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18. Q.6. “The rise of political parties is linked to the emergence of
representative democracies.” Comment on the statement.
Ans.
1.As a society become large and complex they also need some
agenesis together with different views on various issues and to
present these to the govt.
2. They need some ways to bring various representatives together so
that a responsible govt. can be formed.
3. They need a mechanism to support and restrain the govt. make
policies, justify or oppose them
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19. Long
Answer
Type
Questions
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20. Q1. What are the characteristics of a political party?
Ans.
i. All political parties have a symbol allotted by the Election Commission.
ii. They have some programmes and policies regarding the formation of a
government.
iii. All political parties are registered and have large number of supporters
with a leader.
iv. Normally they contest in the elections
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21. Q2. What are the functions of political parties?
OR
‘Political parties play a major role in democracy’. Give four points to justify this
statement.
OR Modern democracies do not exist without political parties. Justify the statement.
Ans:-
i.Parties contest elections. In most democracies, elections are fought mainly among
the candidates put up by political parties.
ii. Parties put forward different policies and programmes and the voters choose from
them. A party reduces a vast multitude of opinions into a few basic positions which it
supports.
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22. iii. A government is expected to base its policies on the line taken by
the ruling party.
iv. Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country. Formally,
laws are debated and passed in the legislature.
v. Since most of the members belong to a party, they go by the
direction of the party leadership, irrespective of their personal opinions.
vi. Parties form and run governments. Parties recruit leaders, trains them
and then make them
ministers to run the government in the way they want.
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23. vii. Those parties that lose in the elections play the role of opposition to
the parties in power, by voicing different views and criticizing
government for its failures or wrong policies.

viii. Parties shape public opinion. They raise and highlight issues. Parties
have lakhs of members and activists spread all over the country.
ix. Parties provide people access to government machinery and welfare
schemes implemented by governments. For an ordinary citizen it is easy
to approach a local party leader than a government officer.
That is why they feel close to parties even when they do not fully trust
them. Parties have to be responsive to people’s needs and demands.
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24. Q3. Differentiate between a national and a regional party.
Ans:-
i.A party that secures at least 6 per cent of the total votes in an election
to the Legislative Assembly of a State and wins at least two seats is
recognized as a State party (or regional party).
ii. A party that secures at least six per cent of total votes in Lok Sabha
elections or Assembly elections in four States and wins at least four
seats in the Lok Sabha is recognized as a national party.
iii. Regional party will have influence in less than three
states where as national parties will have influence in more
than three states.
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25. iv. Indian National Congress (I) and Communist Party of India (Marxist)
are examples of national parties and Telugu Desam of Andhra Pradesh
and Akali Dal of Punjab are examples of regional parties.
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26. Q4. What are the various challenges faced by political parties in India?
Ans:-
i.The first challenge is lack of internal democracy within parties. All over
the world, there is a tendency in political parties towards the
concentration of power in one or few leaders at the top. Parties do not
keep membership registers, do not hold organizational meetings, and
do not conduct internal elections regularly.
ii. Dynastic succession: Since most political parties do not practice open
and transparent procedures for their functioning, there no ways for an
ordinary worker to rise to the top in a party. Those who happen to be the
leaders are in a position of unfair advantage to favour people close to
them or even their family members.
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27. iii. The third challenge is about the growing role of money and muscle
power in parties, especially during elections. Since parties are focused
only on winning elections, they tend to use short-cuts to win elections.
They tend to nominate those candidates who have or who can raise lots
of money. Rich people and companies who give funds to the parties
tend to have influence on the policies and decisions of the party. In
some cases, parties support criminals who can win elections.
iv. The fourth challenge is that very often parties do not seem to offer a
meaningful choice to the voters. In order to offer meaningful choice,
parties must be significantly different. In recent years, there has been a
decline in the ideological differences among parties in most parts of the
world. For example, the difference between the Labour Party and the
Conservative Party in Britain is very little.
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28. Q5. Suggest some reforms to strengthen parties so that they perform
their functions well.
Ans:-
i. A law should be made to regulate the internal affairs of political
parties. It should be made compulsory for political parties to maintain
a register of its members, to follow its own constitution.
ii. It should be made mandatory for political parties to give a
minimum number of tickets, about one-third, to women candidates.
Similarly, there should be a quota for women in the decision making
bodies of the party.
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29. iii. There should be state funding of elections. The government should
give parties money to support their election expenses. This support
could be given in kind: petrol, paper, telephone etc. Or it could be
given in cash on the basis of the votes secured by the party in the last
election.
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30. Q6. What are the measures taken by the Government to reform political
parties and its leaders?
Ans:-
i. The Constitution was amended to prevent elected MLAs and MPs from
changing parties. Now the law says that if any MLA or MP changes
parties, he or she will lose the seat in the legislature according to the Anti-
Defection Law.
ii. The Supreme Court passed an order to reduce the influence of money
and criminals. Now, it is mandatory for every candidate who contests
elections to file an affidavit giving details of his property and that no
criminal cases pending against him.
iii. The Election Commission passed an order making it necessary for
political parties to hold their organizational elections and file their income
tax returns.
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31. MUTILPE
CHOICE
Questions
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32. Ques. Match the following
List I
A. All India Trinamool
B. Bahujan Samaj Party
C. National People's Party
List II
1. Meghalaya
2. West Bengal
3. Uttar Pradesh
Codes
A B C
(a) 2 3 1
(b) 3 2 1
(c) 2 1 3
(d) 1 2 3
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33. Ques. This cartoon drawn during the presidency of George Bush in USA
suggest that
(a) Two party system is ignored.
(b) Republican Party is the only party.
(c) Corporate American dictates all majors institutions of the country.
(d) Republican Party faces many problems.
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34. Ques. Assertion (A) Nationalist Congress Party was formed in 1999.
Reason (R) It is a major party in Maharashtra and demands for Gandhian
secularism, democracy, social justice and federalism.
(a) Both A and true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true
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35. Ques. Two party system exists in:
(a) USA and China
(b) UK and India
(c) USA and UK
(d) India and China
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36. Ques. Every party in the country has to register with the:
(a) Government
(b) Local government
(c) Election Commission
(d) MCD
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37. Ques. In China, the only one party that is allowed to rule is the:
(a) Congress Party
(b) BJP
(c) Socialist Party
(d) Communist Party
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38. Ques. The challenges to political parties are:
(a) Internal democracy
(b) Money and muscle power
(c) Meaningful choice
(d) All of the above
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