Era of One Party Dominance

Post Independence, _________________was the top priority for our leaders

• National Unity

• Economy

• Democracy

• Security

___________________ was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India

• Bijoydutt Sen

• Amratya Sen

• Sukumar Sen

• Mandeep Sen

The Congress party won ________ of the 489 seats in the first Lok Sabha

• 450

• 364

• 350

• 400

Socialist Party was created in ____________

• 1952

• 1947

• 1934

• 1948

_______________insisted Socialist Party to increase their distance from and criticism of the Congress party

• Rammanohar Lohia

• Asoka Mehta

• Jayaprakash Narayan

• S.M. Joshi

_______________country's constitution permits only a Single Party to rule the country

• Nepal

• Cuba

• Egypt

• Sri Lanka

In 1948, the Congress amended its constitution to prevent its members from having a _________________

• Religion

• Property

• Dual party membership

• Ideology

In the state assembly elections, the Congress did not get majority in a few cases like ______________ in 1957 when a coalition led by the CPI formed the Government

• Punjab

• Odisha

• Kerala

• Madras

First General Elections were held from ____________________________

• October 1951 to March 1952

• October 1951 to January 1952

• November 1951 to February 1952

• October 1951 to February 1952

True or False

Every society needs to decide how it will govern and regulate itself

• True

• False