BJP triumphs

One party has the absolute majority of seats in the Lok Sabha, the Indian Parliament.

The victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ), the Hindu nationalist party led by Narendra Modi which is symbolized by a lotus flower, has been more overwhelming than any better poll, winning 283 seats out of 543 available.

The majority of which will have Modi is even more overwhelming if you think that the coalition that supports him, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA ) won 337 seats, while the Congress-led coalition scored just 58 seats .

The opposite side of the coin is given by the collapse of the Congress Party led by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul (both re-elected), which goes beyond the worst defeat of the polls, so that the historic party of Nehru and Gandhi has gone under the two-digit winning 43 seats compared to the previous 206 seats. In practice, the party which led India to more than fifty years after independence, has been swept away. Consider that only in the state of Uttar Pradesh, BJP took more seats than the Congress has taken all over the country .

The only country left in the hands of Congress is Kerala, where, however, the BJP won for the first time in history a seat. In the rest of India the BJP victory was unique.

The victory of the BJP, characterized by a liberal economic policy and a strong religious and nationalist connotation, was greeted by a sharp rise in the Bombay Stock Exchange and many spontaneous demonstrations.

Poor also the result of the party Aam Aadmi Party, the party of corruption that took only 4 seats.

The turnout was high, with 66.38 % of the voters it is the highest of all time in India.

Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 May.

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Indian elections: the dates

The largest democracy in the world calls its 814 million voters to the polls to elect the members of the Lok Sabha, literally the People's house, the Parliament of the Republic of India.

Have been made know the dates of this major exercise in democracy. The indians will vote - depending on the state - from 7 April to 12 May, while the counting will take place on 16 May and the installation of the new legislature will be made by May 31.

These are crucial elections. Hardly the Congress Party, who led India almost continuously since independence to today, will win. Polls give a clear advantage Narendra Modi, the candidate of the nationalist party BJP, the current prime minister of the populous state of Gujarat.

Will play a key role in the regional parties and the neo-formation that has won in recent weeks, the town hall of Delhi, the Common Man Party (AAP). Their deputies will be essential to allow one of the two major national parties to launch the new government, as Congress or BJP difficult to get an absolute majority of votes.

Indian Elections

May is approaching and with it the national elections that will call to the polls 800 million Indians.

For the Congress Party (click here), which expresses the current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, these elections will be crucial and very difficult.

The many cases of corruption have come to the fore, the economy does not pull anymore, vertical fall in the rupee against the dollar, the double-digit inflation with an intolerable reduction in purchasing power, the discontent of many segments of the population are all factors pushing hard to believe that the party of Sonia Gandhi will replicate the results of the previous national elections of 2009.

This impression is confirmed by the recent statal elections which were held in key states in the Indian federation where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Hindu nationalist party led by his critically acclaimed and discussed (click here) leader Narendra Modi, won in a clear way.

The BJP wins in key states and populous as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh.

The difficulty of the Congress Party is also evident from the delay with which the Congress chose the name of the candidate for prime minister which will be compared with Modi. Granted, although not flattering in the polls, the appointment of Rahul Gandhi, son of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi and grandson of Indira.

Political situation is complicated by the born of a new star. It is AAP, Aam Aadmi Party (literally Common Man Party, click here), which comes from the experience of the anti-corruption movement of Anna Hazare and that is driven by Arvind Kejriwal. The AAP has won the important Delhi hall where Kejriwal, with the support of the Congress, became Chief Minister in last December to resign a few days ago when his anti-corruption bill (the Jan Lokpal Bill) was rejected by parliament in which the AAP has not the majority.
But Congress and BJP, the two major Indian parties, will not be able to govern alone and will need the support of the myriad of local and regional parties as well as the AAP whose votes will be difficult to do less.




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