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UPSC 2022 GS-II · 15 marks · 250 words

'While the national political parties in India favour centralisation, the regional parties are in favour of State autonomy.' Comment.

"भारत में राष्ट्रीय राजनैतिक दल केंद्रीकरण के पक्ष में हैं, जबकि क्षेत्रीय दल राज्य-स्वायत्तता के पक्ष में।" टिप्पणी कीजिये।

What “Comment” demands

give a considered opinion on the specific proposition, supported by evidence — brevity is expected, evasion is not.

The characteristic failure: a general essay on the topic that never addresses the proposition itself.

What a top answer must contain

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  • Centralising record: Art 356's misuse decades, one-party planning era, GST design, centrally-sponsored schemes' conditionality
  • Autonomy record: Rajamannar Committee (DMK), Anandpur Sahib Resolution, current fiscal-share protests of southern states
  • Complication for the top band: national parties discover states' rights in opposition; regional parties centralise within their states
  • Frame: federalism as bargaining (Riker); Bommai as the shared norm both sides invoke

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