Question

class 10 civics. why do we need political parties?​

Answer 1

• Parties contest elections. In most democracies, elections are fought mainly among the candidates put up by political parties.

• Parties put forward different policies and programmes and the voters choose from them.

• Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country. Formally, laws are debated and passed in the legislature.

• Parties form and run the governments.

• Those parties that lose in the elections play the role of opposition to the parties in power, by voicing different views and criticising the government for its failures and wrong policies. Parties shape public opinion.

• They raise and highlight issues.

• Parties function as a useful link between people and the government machinery.

Answer 2

Answer:

We need political parties because they perform all the functions which are mentioned above. Apart from this, political parties help in representing different views on various issues to the government. They bring various representatives together so that a responsible government could be formed. They work as a mechanism to support or restrain the government, make policies, justify or oppose them. Political parties fulfil the needs that every representative government has.

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