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Looking like change in India

Posted on by Moni Basu

Today was the last day of polling in India’s mammoth parliamentary elections. Five weeks of voting; Nine polling days; 814 million eligible voters; 543 Lok Sabha (lower House) seats. From all the exit polling I’ve seen, it looks like the worst loss ever for the Indian National Congress, the party of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira …

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The world's biggest election

Posted on by Moni Basu

Get this: Starting on April 7, nearly 815 million Indians will begin casting ballots in this year’s parliamentary elections. Yes, 815 million! That’s almost 100 million more than there were in the last election in 2009. How to accommodate the huge number of estimate voters in the world’s most populous democracy? Polling is staggered over …

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