By this time different regional parties
has emerged and regional parties
such as the Samajwadi Party that
rules Uttar Pradesh, Mamata
Banerjee‘s Trinamool Congress, All
India Anna Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam in power in southern
The upcoming May 2014 Election of
India is one of the most important
and critical event where the prime
contestant are United Progressive
Alliance (UPA) led by centre-left and
secular party Congress, a led by
Nehru-Gandhi family established in
1947 and NDA is led by BJP, which
is a right-wing Hindu nationalist
party.
Prime Ministerial candidate for the
BJP is Narendra Modi, a successful
Chief Minister of Gujarat since 2001
and Rahul Gandhi, Vice President of
the Indian National Congress.
The notable success of last BJP
government was a stable economic
growth rate and improving relation
with neighbouring states including
Pakistan. The major criticism of BJP
was and still is 2002 Gujarat riot. But
recently a huge relief came to the
party and party‘s prime ministerial
candidate Narendra Modi as the
Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate
court held the report of the SIT
(Special
Investigation
Team
constituted by the Supreme Court)
over the Gulbarg Society Massacre
that once again gave a clean chit to
Narendra Modi. The order which
ruled out Narendra Modi‘s alleged
role behind the 2002 Gujarat
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In the 2004 Lok Sabha election,
Sonia Gandhi campaigned across the
country with the slogan of ‗Aam
Admi‘. Following the defeat of NDA
in 2004 elections, she was chosen to
head the 15-party alliance – the
United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
along with the Left to head the
government. She declined the
opportunity to assume the office of
Prime Minister and handed over to
Dr. Manmohan Singh, a prominent
economist. After having another
landslide victory in 2009 she again
relinquish the opportunity to previous
successful Prime Minister Mr. Singh,
however, retained the post of Leader
of Majority and the Chairperson of
Congress Parliamentary Party.
Tamil Nadu province and Aam Admi
party in Delhi. The emergence of
new parties has made politics of vote
much more complex than ever.
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parties. This government collapsed
within a year due to the pull out of
AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam). This led to
elections in 1999. And this time BJP
led NDA was elected with a popular
mandate and it served its full term.
Sonia Gandhi, Italian born Rajiv
Gandhi‘s widow, was elected the
Leader of Opposition of the 13th Lok
Sabha in 1999, who entered politics
in 1997.