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Too many political parties in Our country feels like a drawback for the simple reason of confusion.People like us donot understand the pros and cons of every party. Some parties influence people by giving them gifts/money and seldom services to the people! Many parties turn the state to a monarchy kind of ruling rather than a democratic kind of ruling!

I am against multiple political parties. The only benefit that I see is more options to choose from.... and even that turns out to be a drawback. We see a new party being launched every now and then. Many are launched for power hunger and unsatisfied personal interests but shown as ideology difference. We get the same old wine in the new bottle. Moreover regional parties are restricted to a region and are not in connect with the national interest. 

It also kills the democracy. They divide the votes.. we have seen in past how coalition government has been formed. The latest example being of Bihar. The single majority party was BJP. So the government formed might not be the one elected by majority. Coalition government dupe a voter, compromise on ethics and ideology to form a government. And undoubtedly in a coalition government too many cooks spoil the broth.Same holds for parties in opposition. Too many of them make filth and interfere with smooth functioning of a government

In my opinion, there should be three or four political parties to keep the democracy in the right shape as a single political party has more possibility to start monopoly and end democracy forever. The feeling of competitiveness among political parties benefit us as they try to do something good for the society even though, it does not match our expectations. A single political party might not do as much as a party does to stay in competition.

I think we can find out about parties through newspapers, although, knowing everything about a political party is not easy whether, there is one or many political parties in democracy. When we don't know everything what is happening in our neighbor's life then expecting to know very much more about a political party is very difficult.

The more options and variety that is developing in society is important to improve the quality. For example, earlier, there were very less options for products or services so we had to pick the product or service that the seller is giving without the guarantee of good quality. Now-a-days, there are many sellers and service providers, so we can choose the product or service with better quality than the rest of them.

Many political parties in the society does not give us the best quality of performance that we are expecting but the party, which we choose on the basis of performance is better than the rest of them. We pick the better option among all the options. A little bit of competition is healthy for our society as all the parties will strive to perform better than the other ones(opposition parties). 

Although, I think it will not benefit all of us if many political parties are in our society.

If we analyse the Indian political system thoroughly, we find that it is nothing but a coming together of like -minded opportunists rather than like- minded ideologists . After Independence once a democratic government was decided upon there began a rush to form different political identities since Indian National Congress  and Communist party were the only two parties in existence during the pre- independence era. So post- Independence era saw a huge spurt of regional and national parties . Equations began to change with people shifting from one to the other depending on where they benefited the most, some may have done so because of ideological preferences !

Number of parties is not an important question. It is important that what is structure of parties. At present India have only two national party BJP and congress. BJP have democracy with in party but congress is PVT. limited company. Other all parties which are state level parties are also one man parties. These is no democracy in these parties. These parties by hook or crook won some MP seats and begins to bargain with largest parties. These type of parties are harmful for country. They charges cost of their support. 

I feel that the number of political parties should be restricted to 3-4 at the most. When there are too many political parties, each parties are more busy in power grabbing and forming alliances. And in the process, they often compromise with their ideology. Moreover, a Government can never function freely if it consist of alliances formed by many parties.

India's large population and cultural diversity may not be served adequately if there were to be say only two political parties. The economic diversity is such that one or two ideologies cannot meet their aspirations. The trend of states having regional parties is going to grow and there will thus be many political parties. The requirement is that they should be wedded to the noble cause of converting India into a strong nation by working in tandem.

I agree that there should be only 3-4 parties in the country for democracy to work in real sense. 

Now the latest drama in the launch of party, leaving it and joining the so far termed dushman party is the episode of Siddhu in Punjab.

If we allow parties to flourish in the basis of cultural and economical diversity, we are in a way promoting diversities to be misused as vote banks. After 7 decades of Independence, one has to rise above playing vote bank politics and minority card and think for national interest. 

Moreover I am also against splitting and launching a new party just before election. It confuses the voters as they have no credentials of new party's work. This also impacts the parent party causing doubt about it's functioning. And many a times as Usha said is like minded opportunists coming together

 Apparently more than 150 political parties were formed soon after Independence although most of them withered away pretty soon because there was no proper structure nor any firm commitment . It was just the initial enthusiasm soon after independence which did not last long. However, a few parties stuck on like the Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India , Praja Socialist party and All India Bharatiya Jana Sangh and few parties that were dominant at the state level like The Forward block ( Marxist) , Janata, Ganatantra Parishad, Peoples Democratic front, Revolutionary Socialist Party and so on..This was in 1957 and later years saw a shifting of power within these parties . So we see that India began its independent political journey with multiple political parties.

It is beneficial to have more political parties as it allows a democratic expression of the diversity prevalent in Indian society.The political stabiliy inTN, Orissa, Bengal etc is due to strong regional parties. Diference of opinion with a national party should not be seen negatively and it is a challenge for both to resolve. It is true democracy in action.

Vijay has rightly pointed out that India being a land of diversity, the need of the people cannot be catered with just two political parties. But there should be justification of having many different political parties. I was going through the ideologies of different political parties, and I feel that the basic ideology remains the same for almost all of the parties. Most of these political parties arose  as a result of fight for the party leadership. Such breaking away of political groups is not healthy for any nation

Regional parties have provided political stability. That is something we all would agree. But I also feel that in democracy, a prolonged stability brings a lot of problems too. The party in power for a long starts misusing it. Also they don't fear the loss in coming election as they don't have much competitions. They even resort to goonism as we have seen with TMC and Shiv Sena on various occasions. These regional parties being for long time in power bring a saturation in development too. Any party being in power brings favouritism for contractor, developer etc and so the competitive development suffers and it invites corruption too. And when you know you have no competition in future elections, you get laid back attitude for work. So political stability of a regional party does bring these drawbacks. Moreover they stay confined to regional sentiments and don't synch with national events

Regional parties are not democratic than how can they believe in democracy. Every supremo of these parties are owner of these parties. Mulayam Sing of SP, Mayawati of BSP. Thakrey of Shiv Sena and Laloo of RJD. In these parties their words are last words. No one can dare to challange them. If these parties won in their states they create problem for ruling party in center.

By the time India's political system was firmly established , it also was led to power struggle between the different parties .  Having tasted power and its advantages , The Indian National Congress was not ready to give up easily, so , Nehru brought in his daughter Indira Gandhi and began grooming her rather than a more enlightened or capable leader from within the party . This was the beginning of the dynastic rule started by the Congress party which has managed to keep the party leadership within the family until now thereby paving the way for other parties to do the same. Also , people leaving one party and joining another or forming their own parties was at its peak during the  late Nineteen seventies and eighties. A number of new parties sprung up making the already complicated political structure even more so thereby  confusing the voters .

It is unfair to accuse Nehru of grooming Indira to start dynasty. In fact he was succeeded by Shastri who unfortunately died in harness. Larger number of political parties are both a boom and also a curse. Boon because different regions can express themselves more specifically. Curse because they dilute the strength of the party at Center. What should be the ideal number will be decided ultimately by the voters as well as the specific issues from time to time.

Political party is an organization which is link between government and common man. But increase in political parties has made a great mess. If there are more number of political parties more differences in opinions will take place which will only result in conflict. Common man has to suffer due to all this commotion. Hence it better not to have many political parties.

No doubt, when there are many political parties, it becomes more democratic and voters have more options to choose their candidates. But it can also lead to splitting of votes. There was a case in one of the constituency here at Manipur. A politician, belonging to congress party who had worked hard for his constituency was expected to win in the last election. Due to some differences with him, one of his supporter decided to contest election himself from another regional party. As a result, the votes of his supporters were split between them, as a result of which candidate from another party easily won the election. So more the number of political parties, more ll the votes be split, in which case, the winner of the election might be representing the interest of very less number of individuals.

I totally agree that too many political parties spoil the game by splitting the votes. Regional parties are too confined in their agenda of governance. They are too restricted to their region. Though they represent the cultural and economic diversity of  our country, they also inhibit with working of diversity under the same roof. Diversity should be united for national interest. If it continues like this, things will not come under national interest. 

For  parties who claim to have socialism and communism as their ideology fail to actually follow the ideology. They in fact make mockery of communism and socialism. They are true opportunist in the garb of socialism and communism.

India have only two parties who have base in whole India, BJP and congress. It is not fair to oppose congress. It is fact that no one regional parties are capable in winning majority in Loksabha. Most of regional parties are cluster of nearest and dearest of Party supremo. 60 members of Mulayam Singh's family enjoying and looting UP.

 The multi -party system in India has been often linked to democracy and freedom of choice for people .But is this really so? When we look at the communal angle that our multi -party democracy has taken , it is anything but democratic or a fair unbiased political system. India, being the largest democracy in the world is also the most complex because of the multi religious population which often leads to its own set of problems. Unless we have  committed politicians and leaders at the top level  who are committed enough to make interest of the nation their priority , which has not been the case for decades after independence, the multi- party system has  been used as a a weapon and a tool to lure voters.