Explain the role of regional parties in india in federal power sharing
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The role of regional parties in the early years of Indian independence, was nominal. But with time, the regional parties in State politics started to gain more importance.
Most regional political parties have grown over a period of time as instruments who play a crucial role in state politics. However, they believe that the problems of their regions are not attended to by the Central Government. Thus, many people come together to form a party which looks after the problems of the people in their region. These parties work on issues like the lack of educational facilities, good roads, water, electricity and communications in their respective regions. This has resulted in people favoring these parties during elections.
Also, because of coalition politics, the national political parties depend on regional parties when no all-India party is a position to secure absolute majority in the Lok Sabha. Moreover, various regional parties become coalition partners of national parties in forming State Governments.
Thus, in our parliamentary coalition political system, the national parties cannot afford to ignore the regional political parties.