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Volume : III, Issue : II, March - 2013 REPERCUSSIONS OF VOTE BANK CHASE IN INDIA CHAWAN PREMSING Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : As a particular ideology is the basis of formation of political parties so they use
and propagate that ideology in pie-poll scenario. But arrival of elections brings out
irrelevant facets of these, inconsistent with their ideologies and manifestoes.
Exploitation of communal feeling of the voters during elections to the extreme is a main
weapon in the armoury of the contesting party as well as the candidates. Although seeds
of communal representation in Legislative institutions were sown by British but Indian
Constitution discarded these as outdated and outmoded to give a cohesive and
integrated outlook to Indian Constitution after independence but unscrupulous
politicians do not hesitate to communalize the sensitive issues during election time to the
detriment of unity in diversity feature. Politicians profess secularism but most of them
are possessed of communalism and use the same to flair up this sentiment in a community
against another at times and try to get the sympathy of all the communities. This kind of
poisonous thinking prompts the political parties to identify the constituencies and put up
the candidate of the majority community in that very area. Committed secularists play
vote bank policies pitching, one community against the other at the time of elections. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : CHAWAN PREMSING, (2013). REPERCUSSIONS OF VOTE BANK CHASE IN INDIA. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. II, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2188.pdf References : - Aggarwal, J.C. and N.K. Chowdhary, Elections in India, New Delhi: Shipra Publishers, 1994
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