With the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, securely in the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies, the locus of political opposition is set to move to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house, where the BJP remains in a minority. Most bills need to be passed by both houses to …
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Never mind the general election, real geeks want to know who won the battle of the exit polls. The contestants, as many will recall, were: https://twitter.com/MilanV/status/466006320781733888 And judging from the result and the accolades that followed, Today's Chanakya was the clear winner. https://twitter.com/aks912/status/467357266312560640 But not so fast. To make election predictions under India's first-past-the-post system, polling agencies …
If women alone were to vote in the current elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win 88 more Lok Sabha seats than the Indian National Congress (INC) (using CSDS data -- see Table 3a). If only men voted, the BJP would get 126 more seats than the INC (if we stubbornly assume a constant …
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