Role of Pressure groups in making Democracy Responsive:

♤ Provide alternative platform to citizens to redress grievances and hold government responsible.

♤ Single-issue politics has led to mobilization of pressure groups and public on issues like environment, transparency etc. For e.g. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan led the people’s movement, which got the government to bring about the law on ‘Right to Information’.

♤ Grass root activism and decentralized groups provides an alternative to youth disillusioned with conventional politics.

♤ Promote political education through political debate thus creating a better- informed and educated electorate and improving the quality of public policy.

♤ Competing pressure groups ensure that no group or interest remain dominant or dormant permanently.

Further, pressure groups also happen to be an indicator of political maturity and accommodation in a political system, for only in a truly democratized country, would such groups be allowed to have a say in the policies of the government.