Exit poll forecasts no surprise after AAP & Congress decided to contest separately when prolonged seat-sharing talks failed, handing the advantage to BJP.
NDTV's Poll of Polls gives BJP and allies 49 seats, down from 73 in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, while the SP-BSP-RLD gathbandhan is predicted to win 29 seats.
While states have a relative homogeneity of voter population when compared to India at large, experts have found predicting national landslides less risky.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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