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PARTY POLITICS UNDER THE FIFZH REPUBLIC HAVE BEEN COMPLEX AND confused. New parties such as the Independent Republicans and the Centre Démocrate have appeared, and old ones such as the MRP and the CNIP-two of the great pivotal parties of the Fourth Republic - have disappeared as national forces. The Gaullists have grown, the communists have stagnated, the radicals have declined, and the socialists have experienced dramatically changing fortunes. The observer will be bewildered by the appearance and disappearance of party coalitions, by the political dissensions within the parties, by the bitter squabbles between parties which are in nominal alliance, and by the Quixotic waverings of certain party leaders - veritable weathercocks susceptible to the slightest political draught.

EXAMINES ORIGINS OF PRESENT DISSATISFACTION WITH LEADER SHIP AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA. INDICATES RECURRING WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTHS OF CONGRESS PARTY SINCE END OF MEARU'S ADMINISTRATION. STUDIES RESURGENCE OF REGIONALISM AND FORCES OF DECENTRALIZATION. OBSERVES DEVELOPMENTS LEADING TO A PRESIDENTIALISM IN FACT. ASSESSES CURRENT POSITIONS OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND OTHER POLITICAL FORCES. TO BE CONTINUED.