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Next perhaps to good administration what people want is freedom of speech and the freedom from arrest. When there is an opposition party, there is freedom of speech and freedom of action. They are in danger when there is no opposition. For no one can raise the question why a particular person is stopped from speaking or prevented from not moving to his destiny.
These are the grounds why an opposition party is necessary. In all countries where there is Parliamentary Government the opposition is recognized as a political institution.
In England and Canada the opposition is a legally recognized body, and Parliament in both countries pays the leader of the opposition a salary so that he can carry out his Parliamentary duties without difficulties.
Chapter 4
What is a party ?
Party is like an army. It must have :—
(1) A Leader who is like a Commander-in-chief.
(2) An Organisation which includes—
(i) Membership (ii) A ground plan (iii) Discipline.
(3) It must have principles and policy.
(4) It must have programmes or plan of work.
(5) It must have tactics and strategy i.e. it must plan when to do what and how to reach its goal.
To put in simple terms it is an association of voters with certain objects.
(1) To promote the formation and development of a Party Organisation and foster party through it.
(2) to disseminate party principles through the press and by means of lectures, speeches, literature etc.
(3) to serve as a basis of united political action by the formation of a political party to represent the members of the association in the Legislature to be called the Republican Party.