Pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics in following ways:
(i) They try to gain public support and sympathy for their cause by carrying out information campaigns, organising meetings, filing petitions, etc.
(ii) They often organise protest activity like strikes or disrupting government programmes, in order to force the government take note of their demands.
(iii) Business Groups often employ professional lobbyist or sponsor expensive advertisements.
(iv) Some political parties grow out of movements. The issues raised by them often influence the policies of political parties.
(v) Most of the new leadership of political parties comes from the interest or movement groups.
Three features A, B and C are marked in the political outline map of India. Identify these features with the help of the following information and write their correct names on the lines marked on the map:
A. The place where the Indian National Congress Session was held in 1920.
B. The city where the Jallianwala Bagh incident occurred.
C. The place where the peasants struggled against the indigo plantation system.
Nationalism spreads when people begin to believe that they are all part of the same nation. Support the statement.
