A political party is a group that have some unifying principles that bring them together. A party system is how political parties interface to get CANDIDATES ELECTED.

A few recent important political happenings have revealed that the party system, which is the mainstay of any parliamentary competitive ELECTORAL democracy, is facing a serious internal crisis and that the style of MANAGEMENT of inner party challenges has given the impression of either adhocism or crude party bossism.

There is merit in the argument that Indians should be concerned about the deterioration of the health of political parties.

A party system in a democracy based on a written constitution should have a constitutional and institutional mechanism of admitting and kicking out its dissenting members.

Every ‘regional party’ whether religion-based or culture-based or caste-based are all based on the principle of a leadership which is AUTHORITARIAN because all regional parties are personality-based outfits. It is the writ of the leader which runs in the party.

Supreme leader-based party system has shown its utter incapacity to take important public decisions and the result is that party pronouncements and announcements have lost any public credibility.

India is ruled by authoritarian party bosses and coteries of political favourites. Indian democracy is threatened because the completely undemocratic party system cannot be expected to practice democracy in governance.