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With an effort to fortify the millennium development goal (MDGs) of gender equality and women empowerment (UNO, 2002), many legislations and policies have been formulated and implemented. It is apparent, that over the past few decades, a host of issues related to women are discussed and vigorously debated on various platforms.
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It is often proclaimed that a political party and its members desire to ‘serve’ the society. But of late, it has been analyzed that the trend is moving away from the popular notion of a party as an organization at the ‘service’ of people. The new notion implies that “party” in contemporary India is analogous to a business firm, which provides ‘service’ at a price, once it wins a contract to ‘manage’ the government for a term.