India adopted multi-party system for the following reasons
(i) India is a large country and has social and geographical diversities.
(ii) It is easy to absorb different social and geographical diversities in multi-party systems.
(iii) The multi-party system in India evolved over a long time, depending on the nature of society, its social, regional division, its history of politics and its system of elections.
(iv) Multi-party system ensures a healthy competition between different parties and prevents dictatorship of a single party.
