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Can a political party change its name in India? 

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Many things have changed in India, but one fundamental political fact remains: the elections of 1980 restored the Congress party to the preeminent position it has held since independence.
Positive relation of firm profitability with high abnormal return on the day of announcement indicates that in India a firm cannot break with past, by means of a name change.
Furthermore, India's political party structure is in the process of change, not having adjusted as yet to relatively definite party programs which make a choice between parties meaningful for both the electorate and the candidates.
Third, the study of the extraparliamentary organizations, such as political parties, and of social movements, also becomes a more complex task since it cannot be assumed that a political party or social movement with the same name is the same sort of formation in New York and Mississippi or in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
In addition, political parties can change their programmatic positions to attract new voters.
This paper claims that absence of a party organization, independent civil society associations that mobilize support for the party, and centralized financing of elections has led to the emergence and sustenance of dynastic parties in India.
When a political party has experienced an electoral setback and also a change in the party system or in their own party organization, a change in ideology will also occur.
India must now find a political structure which can function without the overwhelming presence of the Congress, a party universally reviled but, ironically, treated as indispensable.
New political parties can be essential holders of party systems’ change.
Our comparative analysis of the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States, Islamic and secularist parties in Turkey, and the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress parties in India will demonstrate how “political articulation” has naturalized class, ethnic, religious, and racial formations as a basis of social division and hegemony.