Opposition in India & the future of democracy

It is an analytical study of how the opposition parties in India have been functioning and whether the prevalent political system is in a position to solve the gigantic problems before the people of India. The book discusses the causes and conse quences of disintegration of the opposition parties; examines the ideology, functioning and the future of the Indira Congress; analyses the opposition alterna tive to the ruling party and offers some election forecasts based on a theoretical model of the electoral wave in India. The author had correctly forecast the election outcome of the 1980 election on the basis of this model. It discusses in depth the Khalistan movement and analyses the outcome of the 1982 assembly elections in some states.

The central theme of the book is the future of the Western style Parliamentary democracy in India. Can an alternative model be tried with a view to removing abject poverty of the masses? In short, the book discusses the topical and the perennial issues before the people of India. It does not stop at providing a mere di agnosis of the disease. It ventures to suggest a remedy.