The Role of Opposition in Indian Democracy: Challenges and Importance

Abstract

The role of the opposition is to ensure that any government maintains the constitutional guardrails. The Opposition's main role is to question the government of the day and hold them accountable to the public. The Leader of Opposition is vital in maintaining checks and balances on the ruling government. Democratic politics has to be politics through consultation, through negotiation and some amount of bargaining is also involved. In democratic functioning and governance, strong, constructive and viable opposition as well as reformist can play an important role. Opposition party opposes all governmental measures and proposes nothing concrete. It only criticizes without giving constructive suggestions.