Popular Dissatisfaction and Criticism:
It has focused on four areas in the working of political parties, need to face and overcome these challenges in order to remain effective instruments of democracy.
1. Lack of Integral Democracy within parties: parties do not keep membership registers, do not have organisational meetings, and do not conduct internal elections regularly.
2. Dynastic Succession: A rule in which family’s generation rules forever and there can be no change. This is against the democracy.
3. Growing role of Money and Muscle Power: Nowadays, elections are focused mainly on winning at any cost, so parties try to use short cuts like using money and muscle power.
4. Absence of a meaningful Choice: In the present political scenario, there is no ideological difference among the political parties, so they do not provide a meaningful choice to the voters. Sometimes same set of leaders keep shifting from one party to another.
