With six national and 64 state registered political parties while nearly 2,597 unrecognized political parties, India may be able to claim the title of country with the most political parties. This enormous number leads one to infer that groups were driven to find new parties, adding to their continuously growing tally, due to the diversity of viewpoints and approaches to many governance and public policy concerns. Beginning of a New Ideology [caption id="attachment_19402" align="alignleft" width="307"] The 1955 Avadi Congress Session[/caption] Lacking any clearly distinct policy approach, when a few political parties attempted to more strongly oppose the power of the Congress post-independence, they were unable to offer any clear political alt

Author-Gopi Shah