India made history in this elections: 551 mil Indians voted over a period of 5 weeks. Awesome!!The
overall turnout in all the nine phases of polling this year stood at
66.38 per cent, posting the highest in the history of Lok Sabha
elections, surpassing the previous best of 64.01 per cent in 1984 in the
wake of the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The turnout in 2009 was 58.19 per cent.
It gets a bit complicated but 272 seats are required for a simple majority. If the smallest tally of 249 (Times) is taken as a floor, BJP/NDA will have no problems in forming a stable five-year govt.
Bottom-line, India is getting ready to welcome her first Shudra Czar (long overdue), we look forward to when the Dalit Queen will find her way to the throne (perhaps next elections)
Shocking BJP wins predicted in Karnataka and Axom, states which
were expected to hold the line for Congress. Massive BJP victory in Uttar Pradesh. UPA
sweeps Kerala. AIADMK conquers Tamil Nadu. Mamata faces
defeat in West Bengal, Mayawati loses big in Uttar Pradesh. Nitish Kumar wiped out in Bihar, Left routed in Kerala but scores surprisingly well in Bengal. Congress
fares better than expected in Maharashtra, Punjab and in Haryana, decimated in Rajasthan and
Gujarat.
exit polls (there were massive goof-ups in 2004 and in 2009- on
both occasions pointing to a BJP victory). Having said that this
exercise was a major victory for democracy and for the republic of India
with the Election Commission achieving (almost) national treasure
status.
Since most of us here at BP take a jaundiced view of Hinduism/Hindutva (justifiably so given the excesses committed in its name), it is a fair point to add that nothing in the Buddhist (Thailand) and Islamic (Turkey, Indonesia) universe comes close to what Hindu-majority India has achieved in terms of vesting political power in her citizens. Even Christians in the third world (South Africa) cant really hope to compare. And the beauty of it is this has happened with the co-operation of citizens of all stripes: Jains, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and Hindus have achieved it together with mostly good cheer and harmony. It is such a remarkable thing that it is not remarked upon most of the time (which is how it should be).
BJP predicted to win (8) out of (14)
Bengal: Trinamool (20), Left (15), Congress (5), BJP (2)
BJP 28 out of 39
+ Congress (14), JDU (2)
BJP (7), Congress (6), JBSP (1)
BJP (10), Congress (1)
Pradesh: BJP (52), BSP (6), SP (12), UPA (10)
BJP (7), Congress (6)
BJP (7) out of (7)
Pradesh: BJP (4) out of (4)
BJP+ (3), Congress (7)
BJP (22), Congress (2)
BJP (22), Congress (2)
Pradesh: BJP (16), Congress (11), BSP (2)
BJP (26), Congress (3)
BJP (27), Congress (21)
Telengana: TRS (8), TDP + BJP (2),
Congress (4), Left (2)
BJP + TDP (17), YSR (8)
BJP (18), Congress (9), JDS (1)
Nadu: AIADMK (31), DMK (7), Congress (1)
Congress + IUML (18), Left (2)
"Since most of us here at BP take a jaundiced view of Hinduism/Hindutva (justifiably so given the excesses committed in its name), it is a fair point to add that nothing in the Buddhist (Thailand) and Islamic (Turkey, Indonesia) universe comes close to what Hindu-majority India has achieved in terms of vesting political power in her citizens. Even Christians in the third world (South Africa) cant really hope to compare."
Maybe because "Hindu-majority" ( a bit more complex than that) India took over a political/governing system already partially put in place and also partially copied from "christian majoriy"(still a bit more complex than that, but hey if we're going "majority") Great Britian, with the governing populance educated in the "christian" way of government. Do we still give credit to that "Hindu" majority?(I am biased toward giving credit to secular minded Hindu South Indians and Bengali's who in my opinion are more civilized and tried to work well with non-hindu indians, albeit a few exceptions).
Let stop stroking the inferiority complex here and just give credit to Indians in general whose situation is due to having a lot of non-hindu and hindu (diverse) backgrounds looking out for the best in creating a new country, which is committed to the "western"(secular) way of goverance.