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Comment: Minority Governments in India.

  • UPSC 1997
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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A minority government is a ministry whose party or parties hold fewer than half the Lok Sabha's seats and survive on the support, or the abstention, of parties that stay outside it. It is not the same as a coalition: a coalition can command a majority, and a minority government can be a single party.…

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