A political party is a group of people who come together to contest election and hold power in the government. They agree on some policies and programmes for the society with a view to promote the collective good. There are different views on what is good for the society and people. Even their policies are better than parties, and tries to win the support of people.
A political party has three components : the leaders, the active members and the followers.
(i) The leaders : Every Political party has come prominent leaders who formulate policies and programmes for the party and choose candidates for contesting elections. Those who administrative job.
(ii) The active members: They are involved in different committees of the party and participate directly in their activity. They are the ones, who climb a ladder from being the follower and become the assistant of the leaders to gain knowledge about the politics.
(iii) The followers : They believe in the party's ideology and support the party by casting their votes in favour of the party at the time of election. They are simply the ardent follower of the leaders and work under the able guidance of the active members.