The origin of the Indian party system can be traced to the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885, under Allan Octavian Hume. Even after independence, the INC continued to remain the dominant party for at least 2 decades, while its journey post 1967 saw many changes, in terms of party splits…

India boasts of running the largest democracy successfully for over 60 years. Now the time has come to revisit the facts and analyze one of the key areas where we have failed to achieve what was intended. Indian political arena has undergone…

Politics in India or in any other nation has always been a prime issue, because the entire society rests upon the government of the country. The peace and prosperity of a country is directly proportional to the kind of government that rules it. A healthy government leads to the formation of a healthy nation. India is a democratic country. Here, the people choose their own leaders through the voting system…

As you all know, India is the world’s largest democracy. But do we live up to this high title? Are we honest enough to be called a democracy? Is it democracy or a dictatorship we are living in? Let us review our political structure first…

This was supposed to be the ‘Semi-Finals’, but at the end of the day both the two parties in the fray, the Congress and the BJP, are referring to them as local- state elections. At the beginning of the day, it looked as if it would be 3-1 for the BJP, but then a lady called Sheila…

India is today the largest democracy in the world .But, we Indians should take some time off to analyze this fact. The picture has not been as rosy as it seems. Democracy is five decades old in India. But has it grown or is it moving in the right direction…

While acknowledging the choice of the mode of election inherent with the university autonomy, the committee suggests four models of elections It observes, “Organizations like…

The federal political structure of India does not give its citizens dual citizenship- one for the country and one for the state. The makers of our constitution envisioned the country as one nation, with all its cultural, religious,…

In India, prejudice against people of different states is not unusual. The occurrence of recent political events in Maharashtra indicates that this prejudice is dangerous. Migrants of U.P and Bihar were thrown out of the state…

Recently, there came to light news of a CPM member ‘cautioning’ the Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav against supporting the Indo-US nuclear deal. The leftist claimed that lending support to the deal would be tantamount to ‘alienating’ a large chunk of the Muslim vote bank…