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POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days — the entire PSIR syllabus revised once, in the order the syllabus is actually built, one topic a day. The method is simple and it holds: read the capsule in the morning, write the same day, and don’t break the chain. Running alongside it are PSIR Dynamics 2026 and the PYQ Vault — 560 previous-year questions spread across the fifty days, roughly eleven a day — so that revision, current affairs and answer practice move together rather than in separate silos.
Day 25 — Party System & Electoral Politics
Today’s capsule takes the whole life-cycle of the Indian party system in one sitting: Congress dominance and the Congress System, its breakdown after 1967, the rise of regional parties, coalition politics from the National Front to the UPA, the BJP-led fourth party system after 2014, and the return of coalition bargaining after 2024. Built around that spine are the theories of political parties, the ideology and social base of the major parties, intra-party democracy, pressure groups and their changing face, electoral behaviour and the determinants of voting, the changing Indian voter, and electoral reform — state funding, EVMs, the election code, delimitation after the 2027 Census, and the socio-economic profile of the 18th Lok Sabha. Between 2015 and 2025, this unit carried 10 fifteen-markers, 6 twenty-markers and 2 ten-markers — one of the most reliably examined areas in Paper II.
Write before the evening:
- The decision to conduct Population Census-2027 has reopened the debate on delimitation in India. Discuss its various aspects. (UPSC 2025, 20m)
- Critically assess the role of pressure groups in the decision-making process of the government. (UPSC 2024, 15m)
- The decade 1989–1999 has created an epochal shift in the Indian party system at the national level. Identify the major national trends in the party system during this era. (UPSC 2023, 15m)
If you go blank on any point — a scholar, a phase of the party system, a Committee — it is covered in full in the Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts. Revise it, then write.
