Symbiosis Law School, Noida
Online published on 27 June, 2017.
To achieve stabling mass support, party politics in India has become leader-centric rather representing parliamentary constituencies leading to strong influence from popular icons on voters in constituencies apart from theirs. For instance in 1984 Mr. Rajiv Gandhi's wave made the Indian National Congress won a total of 411 out of the then 533 seats in the Lok Sabha and recently when the BJP, swept the 2014 general elections on the back of their prime ministerial candidate, Mr. Narendra Modi. Through secondary research methodology we aim to answer “whether political parties, especially in India have the political will required in tackling sensitive issues or pass legislations wherein there is any foreseeable division in ideologies amongst the supporters of the political party” by Lokpall Bill, Uniform Civil Code, Food Bill and formation of Telangana. Finally there's a comparative study to find whether the party system of India and Democratic - Republican Party system of U.S.A., could to ensure greater political will? And the paper concludes by throwing light upon the fact that political parties in other countries are formed on the basis of ideologies where as in India they are mostly formed on religious or regional lines.
political will, democracy, religion, representing parliamentary constituencies