regional parties: where do you place them?

Political Parties are link between society and people in democracy. They have been harbingers of national struggle, oxygen for exchange of ideas, platform to put forward issues in democracy. A national party has appeal across the nation whereas as opposed to it a regional party has a limited appeal catering to a particular or narrow issue confined within geographical boundary of nation. Where the problem of regional political party rises is the inherent fear attached with their notion that they promote particular versus the general , thereby breeding Us versus Them unhealthy spirit in the national character. However one cannot let pass the idea that the pecularity of the these scattered units across regions rises when they found the national parties though being all inclusive yet in this broadened agenda , their issues were amalgamated to the point of neglect.
Diversity is best hallmark adjective to define INdian Union. Regional Parties can be best examples of same . To have plurality in working of polity is good but not to the extent that this plurality tears the inclusive character of society. To talk of one party dominace is a chimera in present colaitional era where no one party can stand upto thedifferent and distinct needs of Indian citizens, juxtaposed with aspect of globalization which has not only lead to shriking of space and time but also made the 'local' as its anti-thesis to the fore. Indian being a federal union, so regional parties does give a certain degree of bargaining spcae to the states when the Balanceof power is heavily skewed towards the Union in the constitution. As we move away from this theoretical reality, we find that in actual practise, we find what the authors lament that the governance takes a back seat. There are too many issues but resources to staisfy the same are meagre. So the challenge for Indian Union lies in how to chug along different lines bearing the hetrogeneous character yet ensuring the sanctity of united fabric. Perhaps where wew are failing is to put forward an agenda as to how to streamline the working of regional parties, how to make governance a phenomena which should illicit support from all sections and what are the areas for reform of political parties