Epilogue
The National Front government (2 December 1989 to 7 November 1990) was, in fact, just the beginning of a long phase, in independent India’s political history, of an era of coalitions. It marked the end of single party rule. The short spell when Chandra Shekhar headed a government (with a ramshackle group of 60 MPs) supported by the 197 Congress (I) MPs fell on 7 March 1991. The elections in May–June 1991 threw a hung Parliament again. Another minority government under P. V. Narasimha Rao (as head of a pre-poll alliance consisting of Congress (I), AIADMK, Indian Union Muslim League and Kerala Congress–Mani added up to 240 MPs) was sworn in on 21 June 1991. A three-tier cabinet, with 58 members, was sworn in that day. Rao was elected ...
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