Era of One-Party Dominance

The First General Elections in 1952 involved simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and ……………………….

The party that won the second largest number of Lok Sabha seats in the first elections was the…………………….

Match the following leaders listed in List A with the parties in List B.

Four statements regarding one- party dominance are given below. Mark each of them as true or false.

“Patel, the organisational man of the Congress, wanted to purge the Congress of other political groups and sought to make of it a cohesive and disciplined political party. He …… sought to take the Congress away from its all-embracing character and turn it into a close-knit party of disciplined cadres. Being a ‘realist’ he looked more for discipline than for comprehension. While Gandhi took too romantic a view of “carrying on the movement,” Patel’s idea of transforming the Congress into strictly political party with a single ideology and tight discipline showed an equal lack of understanding of the eclectic role that the Congress, as a government, was to be called upon to perform in the decades to follow.” — Rajni Kothari