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Comment: The instability of national politics is due to rising influence of regional politics.

  • UPSC 2007
  • 20 marks
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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The statement reflects the experience of 1989–99, when seven governments under six Prime Ministers held office in ten years and three general elections came between 1996 and 1999. State-based parties meanwhile became indispensable to Union governments. The correlation is real, but the causal claim is weak. The evidence shows that the instability came from the…

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