CONCEPT OF POLlTICAL AFFILIATION
Since the incept of mankind and civilization human behavior is governed by many
factors viz needs, motives, aspirations, values, customs, traditions etc. which are
moulded by the cultural, environmental, economic and political
!actors in a specific manner. Some of the needs though are considered
secondary by Maslow ( 1934) but they have occupied a central position in the
governance of human behavior. Among them political factors perlrnps have
played the dominant role in shaping one's behavior especially during the last
om: and a hnlr decade not only in India hut across the world. However, the
dctcrmin.ints or these political factors in the whole world are somehow not
parallel or similar to those or Indian politics. This may perhaps he attributed to
the diversity in many respects of religion, region, caste, class, education,
urban, rural, gender bias which all have coined the believes of the Indian
population in a typical manner. This in tum have influenced their complete life style
and behavior, hut interestingly these political factors have unstable
polarization which leads to the variation in the political affiliation of the
Indi.: m people at one or the other time. These variations in political affiliations
cannot he easily specified or defined due lo the different motives and
personality characteristics behind these affiliations,
