This is an exclusive study on all the aspects of the biggest INDIAN ELECTIONS till date.....

3. INTRODUCTION
The Indian general election of 2014 was held to constitute the 16th
Lok Sabha, electing members of parliament for all 543 parliamentary
constitution of India. Running in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May
2014, this was the longest election in the country's history.According
to the Election Commision of India, 814.5 million people were
eligible to vote, with an increase of 100 million voters since the last
general election of 2009,making this the largest-ever election in the
world.A total of 8,251 candidates contested for the 543 Lok Sabha
seats. The average election turnout over all nine phases was around
66.38%, the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.

4. BACKGROUND
By constitutional requirement, elections to the Lok Sabha must be held
at an interval of five years or whenever parliament is dissolved by the
president.The previous election, to the 15th Lok Sabha, was conducted
in April–May 2009, and its term would have naturally expired on 31 May
2014. The election to the 16th Lok Sabha was organised and conducted
by the Election Commission of India(ECI) and was held in multiple
phases, to better handle the large electoral base and security
concerns.
Since the last general election in 2009, the anti-corruption movement
by Anna Hazare,and other similar moves by Baba Ramdev and Arvind
Kejriwal gathered momentum and political interest.Kejriwal went on to
form a separate political party, Aam Aadmi Party in November 2012.
The 2012 presidential election,resulted in Pranab Mukherjee of Indian
National Congress becoming the President. The Telangana movement
for a separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh also continued
with agitations, including the initial central government decision to
grant statehood and then rescind it after counter-protests. Andhra
politics was further shaken following death of its chief minister, Y. S. R.

5. THE ORGANIZERS

6. ELECTION COMMISION OF INDIA[ECI]
The Election Commission of India is an
autonomous, constitutionally established federal authority
responsible for administering all the electoral processes in
the Republic of India. Under the supervision of the
commission, free and fair elections have been held in India
at regular intervals as per the principles enshrined in the
Constitution. The Election Commission has the power of
superintendence, direction and control of all elections to the
Parliament of India and the state legislatures of elections to
the office of the President of India and the Vice President of
India.. The commission consists of a Chief Election
Commissioner(CEC) and two Election Commissioners(EC),
appointed by the President Of India

7. ELECTION DATES
The Chief Election Commissioner of India
(CEC), V. S. Sampath announced the polling
schedule on 5 March. Voting was scheduled to
be held in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May,
and the results of the election was announced
on 16 May.

8. ISSUES
Important issues during the campaign
included high inflation, lack of jobs,
economic slow down, corruption, security
and terrorism, religious division and
communalism, and infrastructure such as
roads, electricity and water. In another
survey by Zee News for about 14% of
people, corruption is the main issue in the
election.

9. SOCIAL MEDIA AND CAMPAIGNING
Amongst the social media,individuals came up
with satirical takes on sports, movies (in Hindi
and English) and songs, amongst other things, in
support of the BJP campaign slogan that were
premised on "Aab ki baar, Modi sarkar" ([This
time, [we will have a] Modi government]).Modi
was noted for focusing, in his rallies across the
country, on the 23 million first-time come-of-age
voters.By the last day of campaigning on 10 May,
Narendra Modi had undertaken the largest mass
outreach in India's electoral history by travelling
about 300,000 km for 437 public meetings in 25
states and 1350 innovative 3D rallies according to
the BJP.

10. MAJOR POLITICIAL PARTIES IN THE FRAY
INC
BJP
AAP
AIADMK
DMK
TDP
AITMC
SP
BJD
YSR CONGRESS
MNS
JD(U)
BSP
NCP
RLD
SHIVSENA
RPI
LJP
CPI
CPI(M)
RJD
SADL

11. THE NDA
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a centre-right
coalition of political parties in India. At the time
of its formation in 1998, it was led by the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) and had thirteen constituent
parties. Its current convener is N. Chandrababu Naidu
and honorary chairman is former prime minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee.Also representing the alliance are L.
K. Advani, former deputy prime minister who is the
acting chairman of the Alliance, Narendra
Modi,current Prime Minister of India and Leader of
house in Lok Sabha; Arun Jaitley, Leader of house in
the Rajya Sabha.The coalition was in power from
1998 to 2004. From 2004 to 2014 i.e. for a period of 10
years it found its expansion difficult. However,
defying what many psephologists predicted, the
alliance stormed back to power in the elections held
in April/May 2014. Its leader, Narendra Modi was
sworn-in Prime Minister of India on 26 May.

12. THE UPA
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is
a coalition of centre-left political parties in
India formed after the 2004 general
election.One of the members of UPA is
Indian National Congress,whose
president Sonia Gandhi is also the
chairperson of the UPA.

13. THE THIRD FRONT
Fourteen political parties including the Communist Party of
India, Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party,
All India Forward Bloc, AIADMK, Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party,
Biju Janata Dal, Nationalist Congress Party, Janata Dal, Naga
People's Front, Sikkim Democratic Front, Jharkhand Vikas
Morcha and Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh participated in a
convention of the parties not in alliance with the NDA nor UPA,
which was held on 30 October 2013.On 5 February 11 parties
announced that they would work as one bloc on a "common
agenda" in parliament. These included the CPI(M), CPI, RSP,
AIFB, Samajwadi Party, JD(U), AIADMK, AGP, JVM, JD(S) and
BJD.However, there was speculation that the AGP and BJD were
still in preparatory talks to re-join the NDA. A consensus on a
prime ministerial candidate, however, was not achieved. Though
CPI (M) has sought to build what it terms a "secular and
democratic alternative" to the INC and BJP, general secretary
Prakash Karat discarded the notion that these moves would
result in a Third Front electoral alliance. He also suggested a
possible Third Front would only emerge after the election

14. OTHER PARTIES...

15. THE AAM AADMI PARTY[AAP]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), formed in 2012,
contested 432 seats and won 4 seats. The party's
manifesto focused on anti-corruption
measures.Earlier in 2013, the party had made an
impressive electoral debut by winning the second
highest number of seats in the Delhi Legisltive
Assembly elections. After forming a short-lived
minority government in Delhi, AAP was seen as a
major challenger to the other political parties.
However, the party lost deposits on 413
seats,surpassing the record of Doordarshi Party,
which had lost deposit on 321 seats in 1991.AAP's
leader Arvind Kejriwal unsuccessfully contested
against the BJP's prime ministerial candidate
Narendra Modi from Varanasi.

16. THE AIADMK
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam (AIADMK) opted not to join any
alliance and contested all seats in Tamil Nadu
on its own. Party leader Jayalalithaa told a rally
in March that she would modernise the armed
forces by enhancing their capabilities so that
they were on par with the superpowers. In
saying so she criticised the UPA's governance
including its economic, diplomatic and defence
policies, adding that modernisation of the
armed forces was hindered by steady curtailing
of its funding.AIADMK managed to win 37 out
of a total of 39 parliamentary constituencies in
the state of Tamil Nadu.

17. THE TRINAMOOL CONGRESS[TMC]
All-India Trinamool Congress leader Mamata
Banerjee declared that the party would contest
all 42 seats in West Bengal by itself, making
this the first occurrence of the party contesting
a general election in West Bengal without an
alliance with either of the two largest parties,
BJP and INC. Banerjee told a rally in Cooch
Behar district, near the international border
with Bangladesh, that she would take up the
issue of the border enclaves upon ascertaining
the views of the local people living in the
adversely possessed areas.

18. CELEBRITY CANDIDATES
Nagma (actress)(INC),Bhaichung Bhutia(TMC),
Bappi Lahiri(BJP),Gul Panag(AAP),Jaaved
Jaaferi(AAP), Kirron Kher (BJP), Mahesh
Manjrekar (MNS), Mohammad Kaif (INC), Moon
Moon Sen (TMC), Nandan Nilekani (INC), P. C.
Sorcar, Jr. (BJP), Paresh Rawal (BJP), Prakash
Jha(JD(U)), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore(BJP),
Rakhi Sawant(Rashtriya Aam Party), Ravi Kishan
(INC), Hema Malini(BJP), Shatrughan Sinha(BJP),
Vinod Khanna(BJP), Raj Babbar (INC), Manoj
Tiwari (BJP), Jaya Prada(RLD), and Smriti
Irani(BJP)

19. STAR CAMPAIGINERS
NARENDRA MODI
L.K.ADVANI
RAJNATH SINGH
NITIN GADKARI
GOPINATH MUNDE
AMIT SHAH
N.CHANDRABABU
NAIDU
RAJ THACKERAY
UDDHAV
THACKERAY
SMRITI IRANI
RAHUL GANDHI
SONIA GANDHI
SHARAD PAWAR
ARVIND KEJRIWAL
PRIYANKA GANDHI
PRITHVIRAJ CHAVAN
MANIKRAO THAKRE
K.CHANDRASHEKHA
R RAO
LALU PRASAD
YADAV

21. NARENDRA D. MODI

22. NARENDRA MODI
Narendra Damodardas Modi ,born 17 September 1950) is the 15th and
current Prime Minister of India. Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), also served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001–14.
He is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Varanasi
constituency.
Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998
Gujarat state election campaigns. He became Chief Minister of Gujarat
in October 2001 and served longer in that position than anyone else to
date. Modi was a major campaign figure in the 2009 general election,
which the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance lost to the Congress-led
United Progressive Alliance (UPA). He led the BJP in the 2014
general election, which resulted in an outright majority for the BJP in
the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian parliament) – the last time
that any party had secured an outright majority in the Lok Sabha was
in 1984.
Modi is a Hindu Nationalist and a member of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).He is a controversial figure both within
India as well as internationally as his administration has been criticised
for the incidents surrounding the 2002 Gujarat riots.Modi has been
praised for his economic policies, which are credited with creating an
environment for a high rate of economic growth in Gujarat.However,
his administration has also been criticised for failing to make a
significant positive impact upon the human development of the state.

23. RAHUL GANDHI

24. RAHUL GANDHI
Rahul Gandhi (born 19 June 1970) is the Vice-President of the
Indian National Congress party and the Chairperson of the
Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of
India. Gandhi served as a general secretary in the All India
Congress Committee and represents Amethi as its Member of
Parliament (MP). He is the second-ranked member of the
Congress Working Committee.
Gandhi comes from the politically influential Nehru–Gandhi
family. His late father, Rajiv Gandhi, had served as the Prime
Minister of India and had been President of the Congress
Party. His mother Sonia Gandhi is currently serving as the
President of the Congress Party. He grew up in New Delhi,
where his grandmother Indira Gandhi, was serving as Prime
Minister until her assassination in 1984. His father was
likewise assassinated in 1991. Due to security concerns,
Gandhi constantly had to shift schools in his youth. He
studied abroad under a pseudonym, his identity being known
only to a select few including university officials and security
agencies.

25. ARVIND KEJRIWAL

26. ARVIND KEJRIWAL
Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician and
former civil servant who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Delhi from
28 December 2013 to 14 February 2014. He is the leader of the Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP).
Kejriwal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
and worked for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as a Joint
Commissioner in the Income Tax Department.
In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in a grassroots
movement (Parivartan) using right-to-information legislation in a
campaign against corruption. The same year, after resigning from the
IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to
found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental
organisation (NGO).
In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, and defeated Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election.
Following the election, he took office as the Chief Minister of Delhi on
28 December 2013. He resigned 49 days later, on 14 February 2014,
stating he did so because of his government's inability to pass his
proposed anti-corruption legislation due to a lack of support from
other political parties.

27. THE RESULTS
The results were declared on 16 May, fifteen days
before the 15th Lok Sabha completes its
constitutional mandate on 31 May 2014. The
counting exercise was held at 989 counting centres.
The National Democratic Alliance, led by the
Bharatiya Janata Party, won a sweeping victory,
taking 336 seats. The BJP itself won 31.0% of all
votes and 282 (51.9%) of all seats. It is the first time
since the 1984 Indian general elections that a party
has won enough seats to govern without the
support of other parties.The United Progressive
Alliance, led by the Indian National Congress, won
58 seats, 44 (8.1%) of which were won by the
Congress, that won 19.3% of all votes.It was the
Congress party's worst defeat in a general election.
BJP and its allies won the right to form the largest
majority government since the 1984 general
election.

28. THE RESULTS
BJP-Orange
CONGRESS-Blue
TMC-Grey
AIADMK-Light
green
SHIVSENA- Dark
Green
And others……

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