Correct Answer - Option 2 : Rajni Kothari
The correct answer is Rajni Kothari.
- The term “one-party system” was used by the eminent political analyst Rajni Kothari to describe the particular situation of electoral politics in India.
- The one-party dominant system is a political occurrence in which a single political party continuously dominates election results defeating opposition groups or parties.
- As per Rajni Kothari, India’s electoral system approximates neither to the established model of the two-party or multi-party system nor to that of the one-party system.
- For almost two decades after independence, the Congress, which had led the freedom struggle in the country, controlled the central as well as state governments.
- As per Kothari, the characteristics of the one-party dominant system are the following:
- an open and competitive party system,
- a fractured opposition that cannot provide an alternative to the government,
- a democratic and symbiotic dominant party.
