Question

Political parties and their founders are given below. Find out the correct option of the pair:
(A) Maharashtra Navnirman Sena I. Sharad Pawar
(B) Bahujan Samaj Party II. Balasaheb Thackeray
(C) Shivsena III. Kashiram
(D) Nationalist Congress Party IV. Raj Thackery

Answer 1

Hint: Democracy is the form of government in which people have the authority to choose their governing representatives. Freedom of assembly and speech, inclusiveness and equality, right to life and minority rights, voting etc. are some of the cornerstones of democracy.

Complete Step by step solution: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was founded by Raj Thackery in 2006 and it is the Maharashtra based regional party. He formed this new party after he left the Shiv Sena Party.
Shivsena party was founded by Balasaheb Thackery in 1966. He was a political cartoonist and Hindu Nationalism was the main ideology of this party.
The Bahujan Samaj Party was founded by Kanshiram in 1984. It represented Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes.
The Nationalist Congress Party was formed by Sharad Pawar with 2 others in 1999.
Political parties represent groups of people with different ideologies who compete with each other for becoming the governing representative of the people. It is the only form of government in which people can show their dissent and different individual groups can express their feelings.
The utility of the government formed will remain uncertain. All the elected representatives might be accountable to their own constituencies for what they do in their locality but no one will actually be responsible for how the country as a whole will run.

Note: Without political parties, democracies cannot exist because then every candidate will be independent. Hence no one will be able to make any promises to people about major policy changes.