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India has moved from ‘one-party dominant system’ to ‘one-party led coalition’. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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W. H. Morris-Jones described the arrangement of the Jawaharlal Nehru years as one-party dominance: several parties competed freely, but only one could govern. Rajni Kothari called it the "Congress system". A one-party-led coalition is different. One large party supplies the Prime Minister, most ministers and the agenda, and smaller, mostly regional, partners supply the majority.…

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  • Step one: dominance without coalition partners (1952–67)
  • Step two: fragmentation (1967–98)
  • Step three: the led coalition (1998–2014)
  • The new turn: BJP-led coalition dominance (2014–)
  • Limits of the claim
  • Conclusion
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