Indian Political System

India has over 700 people of electorate. This makes it the largest democracy in the world. Unlike the American and the British democracies the Indian one is much younger.

Pratibha Patil

It was established in 1947 when the constitution of the country came into force. It is one of the most emended constitutions in the world with more than 80 changes over the short period of it's existence,only 60 years. This means that it was changed more than once a year. The government structure has two levels. The lower house is called Lok Sabha. It is copied from the British house of commons. The second one is the federal system. It borrows experience from USA, Canada and etc.

The main political figure in India is the president. He is the head of the state. However he has more of a ceremonial role than actual rights of taking political decisions. He can also return bills to the parliament for reconsidering, this is also called veto. The current president of India is Pratibha Patil.

The Parliament;
The lower house (Lok Sabha) has 552 members according to the constitution. They represent the people of India and united territories. Today the total number of members is 545. Each of these members represents a single constituency. Each constituency can be represented by 1 member.

The Upper house is called Rajya Sabha and it is much smaller than Lok Sabha, with total of 250 members. 12 of these members are chosen by the president and they usually are artists or other popular people. These two houses share their powers, except in the specific are of money supply. Here the main powers are in the hands of Lok Sabha. The parties in India are divided in national and state parties. The national parties are bigger and today there are 6 of them.

This is how the political system in India looks like. It is a mixture of several other system and it continues it's development today.