| Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | Phase 4 | Phase 5 | |
| Thu 16 Apr | Thu 23 Apr | Thu 30 Apr | Thu 7 May | Wed 13 May | |
| No. of States | 17 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 9 |
| No. of Seats | 124 | 141 | 107 | 85 | 86 |
"Matdaan” (Voting)
process has been started and the
Campaign for the
General Election has begun in
across the country. In India,
there are seven national level
political parties in which
Congress and the Bhartiya Janata
Party (BJP) having the maximum
number of majority in India’s
lower house of the Parliament
“Lok Sabha”. We don’t know,
either the single political
party will be elected with the
maximum number of majority and
to get the chance to form
Government or, different
state-level parties join hand
with the Congress or BJP to
form the coalition government
but as a citizen, we
want security, stability and
growth for ourself and for our
country. The domestic Economy
and the homeland security are
the two important factors in
this election. Nowadays, the
young population of the country
has been indulged in to the
elections like never before, to
make a decisive decision to hand
over the country’s command to
the responsible hands.
Since last two decades, the
Indian Economy has achieved a
lot and currently lying on a
very vital stage. That is why,
the developed economies seeing
India as a global power over
next few years and to achieve
this hallucination, everyone
including me and you are very
concerned about the upshot of
the ongoing Elections. According
to the given below stats, we
might see the jump of 19.6% in
the voter turnout percentage
this year because, urban
population in particular are
worried with regards to the
security and the economy and
will be seen on the Polling
Booth. Historically, half of the
urban population remains abstain
from the elections and the rural
voters accounted for the maximum
part of the total voter turnout
ratio. Perhaps, the voter
turnout percentage could
even exceed our estimates.
Key Stats for India Votes 2009
| 2004 Elections | 2009 Elections | |
| Poll Expenditures* | Rs1,300 Crores | Rs2,200 Crores (Estimate) |
| Electorate** | 349,490,864 (Male) | 372,882,778 (Male) |
| 321,997,066 (Female) | 340,875,142 (Female) | |
| Number of Poll Stations^ | 702,000 | 887,750 (Estimate) |
| Voter Turnout^ | 56% | 67% (Estimate) |
| Number of EVMs^ | More Than 900,000 | more than 1.02 Million (Estimate) |
What’s Lok Sabha is all about?
Lok Sabha is the lower house of the Parliament of India and composed of representatives of people, which are directly chosen by the suffrage (18 years and above are recognize as Adults in India) by the election process like this one and the constitution limits the Lok Sabha to only 552 members. At the moment, 14 Lok Sabha has been elected by the People of India and going to expire on 1st Jun, 2009. Now we’re going to form 15th Lok Sabha between April and May 2009.
The Impact of Polls on an Individual!
We vote the Political Party to become supremacy for our safety, growth, prosperity, opportunities, stability, and of course diplomacy. Do you think that all these factors are really matters to all of us? Well, these things perhaps absolutely broader in nature and it depends on person to person. Today, urban India is very concerned about their job security and life security as the Economic Crisis and Terrorism made havoc in their life. In this particular situation, people must be in a quandary, when the voting decision comes to their mind.
Consequently, this election would be dramatic one and even there are lot of anticipation from the political analyst, that no one will be able to get the majority to form the Government. Then what we can expect if it does happen, I have no idea! But I’m sure, this election might be entertaining too and actually we’re experiencing many incidents, which have never happened before and I think after the Indian Premier League (IPL), it will be in best demand and would attract lot of viewers towards Media to get coverage.
India & Pakistan: The Tough Foe
Pakistan, a major and challenging task to handle for the next Indian Government. According to the United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA, the ruling Indian Coalition Government) perspective, Pakistan seemingly has not done enough to tackle terrorism from its land and Taliban indeed making headway towards the Islamabad, the Pakistani Capital - which indeed is now growing as a major concern for India due to closest neighborhood. Indeed, its not only a danger for Pakistan alone, however it is the biggest threat to the entire world. Nevertheless, Pakistan is facing enormous threat from Taliban and trying to get aid from the donor countries to get substantial amount of resources to fight Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Does India have a responsibility to help Pakistan to come out of this crisis without considering the last year terror attacks in Mumbai? From VMW’s perspective, the new government should have to work to reframe its foreign policy in which it needs to help Pakistan to tackle terrorism problem from its soil rather than deploying troops on the border side and even inside Pakistan if necessary, so that India can enjoy the stability as far as the cross-border security is concerned and even could gain control over the infiltration from India’s border with Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Post Elections, how India’s relation with Pakistan takes shape? That’s the question, which actually comes into everybody’s mind after the recent terror attacks in Mumbai. In the wake of Mumbai Attacks in Nov last year, (Indian Media uses 26/11 to mention that terror attack), the Indian citizens do not want to have a firm relation with Pakistan. However on the other side, Indian Authorities always tried to stay away from any conflict with its neighbor; that is the reason, India has made several attempts in the last six decades to make stable relations. Now the picture is absolutely clear like a crystal in front of the international community. Possibly, India will urge the International Community to allow its forces to enter the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) region to knock down the active terrorist’s training camps.
The final conclusion is, we want a stronger government - who can protect its citizen against any kind of peril - no matter how do they deal with the situation. People have no fault to a certain extent, they pay taxes to get something in return from their government. Let see, who is going to get a power from the “People of India”.
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*Poll expenditure only includes the expenses incurred or to be incurred by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and this is just an estimation by the ECI. **Number of Electorates was estimated by the Election Commission of India. ^Number of Poll stations would take a jump of over 25% due to rise in number of electorates and higher percentage of voter turnout. Number of Poll Stations, Number of EVMs and Voter Turnout Percentage was estimated the by VMW.This is the preliminary edition of this article by Vishal Mishra. The final edition of this article will be posted in the next few days and you will see few changes.