Through lifeblood of a representative democracy, political parties are beset with challenges that often limit their larger role in democratization of the society.

But political parties in India are a product of modernism and in a traditional and underdeveloped country like India these unique arrangement of modern political system with traditional society has resulted in major changes to political parties as follows: (1) Lack of defined ideology - Indian political parties are parties of convenience and product of social realities rather guild by ideologues merely them vulnerable to dynamic changes in the society (2) Division on caste and religion - Indian society divided on the caste and rallying pack restricting the base of many political parties to specific castes and regions. (3) Defections of members from one party to another in quest of power leads to unhealthy and corruption