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BJP's 'Modi ki Guarantee' Slogan Was Popularised With Taxpayer Money; Why ECI's Reluctance to Share Voting Data Is Worrying
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BJP's 'Modi ki Guarantee' Slogan Was Popularised With Taxpayer Money; Why ECI's Reluctance to Share Voting Data Is Worrying

May 21, 2024
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May 21, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

As India’s interminable general election drags on, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah is boasting that his party has already won “310” of the 428 constituencies that have voted so far and will pick up 90 more from the 115 that remain. The Congress, on its part, has started referring to Narendra Modi as India’s ‘outgoing prime minister’.

The fifth phase of the general election across 49 constituencies may have been the smallest phase but “it can have a disproportionate impact on the overall outcome”,

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