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dated December 6, 1957: Party system in Asia

The Ceylon Prime Minister, Mr. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, had expressed the view that Asian countries were not likely to develop on two-party lines while speaking at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in New Delhi on December 4, according to a Press release issued after the meeting. Mr. Bandaranaike said that parties in this region had tended to emerge as groups on ideological, religious, linguistic or even communal grounds. This meant that the number of parties tended to increase. While emphasising the importance of the party system in the working of a democratic parliamentary Government, he also suggested some possible modifications which would lessen the disadvantages of the party system. In this connection he mentioned the system of executive committees, which subsisted in the former State Council of Ceylon.

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