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Answer 1

In politics, there is competition between political parties. If these political parties use this competition in support of some social divisions, it can lead to political divisions. This can lead to conflicts, violence or even disintegration of a country.

One example is of Northern Ireland where religious divisions led to ethno-political conflict. Two major sects of Christianity: 53% Protestants and 44% Catholics dominate the country. The Catholics were in favour of the Northern Ireland to join the Republic of Ireland and the Protestants wanted to remain with UK. This led to years of violence killing thousands of people. It was in 1998 that peace was established when the UK government and the Nationalists signed a peace treaty.

The second example is of Yugoslavia where the political parties refused to accommodate each other. Each ethno-religious group wanted to dominate the other. The result was the disintegration of Yugoslavia into seven independent countries.

Answer 2

It has both positive and negative effects on state and national level politics. Good thing is that, the economically weaker sections in the society are large in number so in democracy, political parties has to consider program for upliftment of these weaker sections of society. Even parties includes such agenda in the manifacsto to attaract peoples of different societies by addressing thier problems e.g. upliftment of tribal communities, facilities to farmers, schemes for wokers etc. But the side effect is that few parties try to polaries them by using caste and religon card. Which is dangerous for the healthy democracy.