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Comment: Coalition Governments in India at the Centre since 1998.

  • UPSC 2005
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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The post-poll arrangements of 1989–98 gave India six Prime Ministers in under a decade. 1998 marks a break: coalitions became pre-poll alliances led by a core party, with a written programme. E. Sridharan traces the pattern to the first-past-the-post system, under which pooling votes before the election outweighs ideological distance. Since then, central coalitions have…

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