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NL Cheatsheet: India is a multi-party democracy. But does it have too many parties?

By NL Team

September 25, 2019 at 4:59 PM

Home Minister Amit Shah has sparked a controversy by asking whether the multi-party system has failed India. Has it?

To answer that question, we need to first grasp what multi-party democracy means in the context of Indian electoral politics and how it plays out on the ground. Meghnad S is at hand to explain.

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