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Explain the increasing role of regional political parties in the national politics.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • Party System

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Between 1989 and 2014, seven Lok Sabha elections produced no single-party majority. On Yogendra Yadav's reading, the state became the effective unit of political choice, so national power had to be assembled from state mandates, with regional parties as its brokers.

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  • Why their weight grew
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