Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Era of one Party Dominance

Question:

Among the following, whose rule was described as ‘the perfect dictatorship'?

Options:

Congress Party in India

Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico

Both Options 1 and 2.

Neither 1 nor 2

Correct Answer:

Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico

Explanation:

Founded in 1929, as National Revolutionary Party and later renamed the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI (in Spanish), exercised power in Mexico for almost six decades. Over a period of time, Plutarco Elías Calles, the founder of PRI, was able to capture the organisation and thereby the government. Elections were held at regular intervals and it was the PRI that won every time. Other parties existed in name only so as to give the ruling party greater legitimacy. The electoral laws were operated in a manner so as to ensure that the PRI always won. Elections were often rigged and manipulated by the ruling party. Its rule was described as ‘the perfect dictatorship’.