Who had proposed partyless democracy in India?
(A) Jaya Prakash Narayan
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Vinoba Bhave
(D) S.A. Dange
Correct Answer : Jaya Prakash Narayan
Question Asked : SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam 2011
Explanation : Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan advocated party less democracy and the concept of Lok-ummidwar. In 1957, Narayan formally broke with the Praja Socialist Party in order to pursue lokniti [Polity of the people], as opposed to rajniti [Polity of the state]. By this time, Narayan had become convinced that lokniti should be non-partisan in order to build a consensus-based, Classless, participatory democracy which he termed Sarvodaya.
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