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Important Questions on Popular struggles and Movements
Chipko Movement was basically against?
(A) Pressure groups are organised expressions of the interests and views of specific social sections.
(B) Pressure groups take positions on political issues.
(C) All pressure groups are political parties.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
"In the s and s, as I was encouraging farmers to plant trees on their land, I also discovered that corrupt government agents were responsible for much of the deforestation by illegally selling off land and trees to well-connected developers. In the early s, the livelihoods, rights, and even the lives of many Kenyans in the Rift Valley were lost when elements of President Daniel Arap Moi's government encouraged ethnic communities to attack one another over land. Supporters of the ruling party got the land, while those in the pro-democracy movement were displaced. It was one of the government's ways of retaining power; If communities were kept busy fighting over land, they would have less opportunity to demand democracy".
In the above passage, what relationship do you see between democracy and social movements? How should this movement respond to the government?In this example what is the relationship that you observe among movements, political parties, and the government? Can you think of an example that shows a relationship different from this one?
What are the social movements listed in these news clippings? What efforts are they making? Which sections are they trying to mobilise?
