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Post K’taka, Will Modi Push for Simultaneous Elections?

30th May 2018, The QuintBy Chaitanya KalbagOctober 25, 20242 Comments

The sub-text to the debate on simultaneous elections is that BJP wants to further centralise power. In 2012, watching Manmohan Singh struggling with a disorderly coalition, an obstreperous cabinet, and a host of powerful state chief ministers, I wrote that he was the lone prime minister in a nation of presidents. In 2014, on the…

Nuts & Bolts-One Nation, 173 M Voters

12 May 2018, Business WorldBy Chaitanya KalbagJune 18, 2024Leave a comment

Indians got the vote even before they got citizenship To be precise, 173,213,635 voters aged 21 years or above. That was the total on the electoral rolls published, constituency by constituency, between the first week of September and 15th November, 1951, about a year before independent India’s first general election. The 1951 Census counted 180,307,684…

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