There are a registered 700 million voters in India making it the World´s largest democracy. The elections start today and will take more than four weeks to conduct. Results won´t be known until the middle of May.
Acts of violence remain few so far, but there are fears that the growing number of Maoists who are calling for an election boycott could cause trouble.
Early polls are predicting a move away from the Big Two – the governing Congress party and the pro-Hindu party, the BJP. Regional political parties are likely to hold the key to the next government in what is known as the Third Front. However they have no obvious consensus.
Keep up to date with the Indian elections. via the BBC.
Of course "democracy" is a rather loose word. Try telling the Indian Booker Prize winners Arundhati Roy and Aravind Adiga that they live in a democracy - they won´t believe you!
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