What we learnt from the great Indian Election Drama!

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On the 23rd of May, the results of the biggest democratic exercise in the world that lasted for more than six weeks were announced. The Modi tsunami swept across the world’s largest democracy, taking the country by surprise.

This was the first party to come back to power with more than 300 seats after 1984. The National Democratic Alliance reached a record total of 350 seats decimating the divided opposition coalitions.

Election Campaigning

Election campaigning was very colourful and showed the strength of the power of money in electoral politics. Most of the speeches made by our leaders were quite ugly indeed with potshots thrown at each other-communal, casteist, as well as sexist. Let’s take a look into the slogans and catchy words used by various parties.