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The decade 1989-1999 has created an epochal shift in the Indian party system at the national level. Identify the major national trends in the party system during this era.

  • UPSC 2023
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  • Party System

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Yogendra Yadav called the order that emerged after 1989 India's "third electoral system" (Economic and Political Weekly, 1999). In one decade India held five Lok Sabha elections and had eight governments under six Prime Ministers. Driven at once by Mandal, Mandir and the market, the change altered the structure of competition, not merely the party…

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