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Read the full article here: https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/india-elections  Follow Gulf News' for special coverage and analysis of the Indian Elections 2019.  India's general elections are complete and the results will be announced tomorrow. We take a look at the country's history, political framework, and the issues that may have played a role in deciding who will form the next government.  #Indian Elections #Modi #Congress

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00:00Tomorrow, the votes will be counted and the world will know whom India has voted to power.

00:17Why do India elections matter?

00:19With a population of 1.3 billion, India is the world's largest democracy.

00:27It is the country with the maximum representation of faiths.

00:32In this election, communal politics has been at the forefront.

00:37Why does communalism matter in India?

00:40India is a 5,000-year-old country that was invaded repeatedly.

00:45Even though it has absorbed various faiths over the years, there has always been a level

00:50of friction.

00:51This was further exploited by the British to control the nation with their divide and

00:56rule policy.

00:59Back to 2019, how is India's government structured?

01:06The Indian parliament has 790 seats divided into two houses.

01:11The upper house or the Rajya Sabha, which has non-elected members.

01:16The lower house or the Lok Sabha, which has elected members.

01:23An autonomous constitutional authority called the Election Commission of India is responsible

01:28for administering election processes in India.

01:34This year, 900 million eligible voters went to 1 million polling stations.

01:41These polling stations have electronic voting machines or EVMs, electronic devices used

01:48for recording votes.

01:503.96 million EVMs were used during this year's election.

01:57The voters elect representatives to 543 seats or constituencies of the Lok Sabha.

02:04A party needs 272 or more seats to win.

02:11India's 29 states and 7 union territories are divided into constituencies.

02:17Different states have different numbers of constituencies depending on the population

02:22of the state.

02:26States are administrative units that have their own governments.

02:30On the contrary, union territories are directly ruled by the central government through a

02:35lieutenant governor as the administrator.

02:38Appointed by the central government, he is a representative of the President of India.

02:44The winning candidate from each constituency becomes a Member of Parliament or an MP.

02:50The winning party selects the Prime Minister, who then chooses his cabinet of ministers

02:56from the elected MPs with over 40 portfolios like Home Affairs, External Affairs, Defence

03:02and Finance.

03:05General elections in India take place every five years.

03:09But India is a difficult country to rule.

03:13It has many faiths which are further divided into sects and sub-sects.

03:21The country also has 121 languages with more than 19,500 dialects.

03:28Also, the vast majority of Indian population is still rural.

03:35Despite these challenges, India is the sixth largest economy in the world.

03:42The current ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP, swept the elections in 2014.

03:50In the past five years, there has been a sharp increase in divisive politics and economic

03:56challenges posed by the demonetisation decision and the introduction of GST, a standard goods

04:03and services tax.

04:06India also recorded its highest rate of unemployment in 45 years in 2017-18.

04:14The main opposition party is the Indian National Congress.

04:18However, the Congress has lost numbers and is now forming coalitions with different parties

04:24in different states.

04:28In the 2019 elections, the voter turnout was higher than the 2014 polls, with 55-56 million

04:37new voters.

04:40India in fact has a large population of voters under 35, so the 2019 mandate might get decided

04:47by the voice of the youth.

04:50But what are the possible results in this election?

04:59The National Democratic Alliance, the BJP and its allies could get a clear majority.

05:06Or the UPA, Congress and its allies could get a clear majority.

05:12The third possible result is a hung parliament.

05:17The Indian parliament has 543 seats, which means in order to form a government, any party

05:22or bloc will have to win at least 272 seats.

05:26Now in the event when no party or bloc is in a position to win 272, if they finish below

05:31that mark, it's a hung parliament.

05:33And then it's the President's prerogative to decide on which party or bloc he will invite

05:37to form a government.

05:43For me, I'll support Modi, Mr. Narendra Modi.

05:49I feel he's a genuine person and maybe at one point in time he'll do some good for India.

05:57And he's really making sense as of now, for the last five years which he has worked over

06:01there.

06:02Last five years, the government has done exceptionally well.

06:05In 20 years, if we see at least, these five years were certainly exceptional and they

06:10have done something which can be seen by common people.

06:19If we at least compare these 15 years, so five years is better than ten years prior

06:26to this five years.

06:27Whosoever is coming, whosoever is coming in power, whether it's a Modi or it's a coalition

06:32government or it's a Raoul government, anybody, but our expectation from the government is

06:38that they can do the economic revival of the country.

06:42Currently, due to what happened in the past, GST was one of the major concerns.

06:48The demonetisation was one of the concerns.

06:51Even you can see the GDP rates.

06:53We don't know, nobody relies on these GDP rates, whether it is high or low.

06:58We understand from the different sources that it is the first.

07:01So the government is showing it is high, but it might be it is not high because the other

07:05sources are not showing.

07:06So our expectation from the government is on the economic revival.

07:09They should work on the inflation rate.

07:12They should work on the jobs.

07:13Currently, our young populations are looking for the job.

07:16They are graduates.

07:17Again, the expectations from whoever comes to is a very clean governance we require because

07:22if you see the past of Indian politics, it has been like blotted with a lot of scams

07:27happening all across.

07:28Pretty national security, diplomatic things, obviously, they have been doing a good job

07:32in the past.

07:33I assume that the coming government, whoever comes in, will take on the same thing, I hope.

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