OUTSIDER
INDIAN POLL 2014
Mithun Paul Dip
governor general of British India as
Prime Minister of newly born India
since August 15, 1947.
1951-52 India saw its first general
election under new constitution and
Indian National Congress won a
landslide victory by winning 249
seats out of 489 led by Jawaharlal
Nehru, who was appointed by
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), present
opposition party, was formed in
December 1980 by direct leadership
of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal
Krishna Advani. It for the first time
emerged as important political entity
by securing position of premier
opposition in 1991 Lok Sabha
election. In May 1996 BJP attained in
power for the very first time and
lasted only 13 days. Again in March
1998 Atal Bihari Vajpayee took the
office of Prime Minister by forming a
coalition of National Democratic
Alliance (NDA), a constituent of 13
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world. Although the voyage of Indian
politics from 1947 to 2014 has not
been very smooth, it has always been
uncompromised to retain rule of
democracy. In last 66 years, there
were numerous types of government
across the world, but India was
always unanimous in the notion of
democracy. Of course credit goes to
the political leaders. There was long
military government in Pakistan and
for comparatively short time in
Bangladesh,
two
next
door
neighbours of India, but this wave
have not been able to touch India at
all.
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India is the largest democracy of the
Since independence to 2014, out of
77 years only some 13 years was
ruled by other parties except
Congress. India found its first nonCongress government in the general
elections of 1977 where Morarji
Desai led Janta Party came to power
and Congress failed to win eve