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THE NUMBERS

• Turnout – 67.1% (Increase0.7%)
• 900 million Indian citizens were eligible to vote
• Comparison
• 2018 Pakistani general election Turnout 51.6% (Decrease 3.4pp)
• 2016 United States presidential election Turnout – 55.7% Increase 0.8 pp

2019 INDIAN GENERAL ELECTION

• The 2019 elections attracted a turnout of over 67 per cent – the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections

THE U.P BATTLE

• The Bharatiya Janata Party has won 62 out of 78 Lok Sabha constituencies it contested in Uttar Pradesh, reducing the Congress to a single seat in India’s most populous state in the 2019 General Elections.

WISHES FROM WORLD LEADERS

WISHES FROM WORLD LEADERS

2019 INDIAN GENERAL ELECTION

• The Indian National Congress party had won 52.
• In order to become the official opposition party in the Lok Sabha, a party must win 10 per cent of the total number of seats, or 55 seats. The largest opposition party, the Indian National Congress, once again failed to attain this number. Thus, India remains without an official opposition party

OFFICIAL OPPOSITION

• The Opposition’s main role is to question the government of the day and hold them accountable to the public. The Opposition is equally responsible in upholding the best interests of the people of the country.
• They have to ensure that the Government does not take any steps, which might have negative effects on the people of the country. The role of the opposition in legislature is basically to check the excesses of the ruling or dominant party, and not to be totally antagonistic. There are actions of the ruling party which may be beneficial to the masses and opposition is expected to support such steps.

LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION

• The Leader of the Opposition is the politician who leads the official opposition in either House of the Parliament of India.
• Received statutory recognition through the Salary and Allowances of Leaders of Opposition in Parliament Act, 1977 which defines the term “Leader of the Opposition” as that member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha who, for the time being, is the Leader of that House of the Party in Opposition to the Government having the greatest numerical strength and recognised, as such, by the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha or the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

CHALLENGES IN FRONT OF NEW GOVERNMENT

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