“The relationship between political parties and pressure which coordinates the activities of a large number of country: groups can take different forms.” Elaborate.
The relationship between political parties and pressure groups can take different forms, some direct and others very indirect: In some instances, the pressure groups are either formed or led by the leaders of political parties or act as extended arms of political parties. For example, most trade unions and students’ organisations in India are either established by or of filiated to one or the other pressure groups are usually activists and leaders Sometimes political parties grow out of movements’. For example, when the Assam movement led by students against the “foreigners’ came to an end, Gan Parishad. The roots of parties like the DMK and the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu can be traced to a long drawn social reform movement during the 1930 and 1940s. In most cases the relationship between parties and interest or movement groups is not so direct. They often take positions that are opposed to each other. Yet they are in dialogue and negotiation. Movement groups have raised new issues that have been taken up by political parties. Most of the new leadership of political parties comes from interest or movement groups.
