Every Indian general elections brings more people to the polls than the last and hence it has been beating it’s own turnout records since 1964. I found a blog by noted Indian Journalist Vikas Singh:The real final: Rahul vs Modi : Rue-Barb Pie : Vikas Singh - Times Of India Blog which adequately describes the current general elections in India.
If someone wonders how the caste system came into place in India, he or she can just look at India’s history since Independence. Casteism is as Indian as say the river Ganges. Hence we have new castes of political families, Bollywood families, Industrialist families etc who have been formed just by biological relations. They have all the endogamous and hereditary social group barriers which are typical of the Indian caste system.
The Political caste of India currently has a few major families. The main one being the Gandhi (not M.K Gandhi but related to his protégé Jawaharlal Nehru) and some others of prominent political leaders since Independence.
All current polls and market buzz indicate this election will not bring clear majority to any party but a coalition of the congress( the Gandhi Family) might form the next Government.
So why does one have to care about the results? Well apart from the Importance of India to the Global economy, it being a major regional military power etc, the real reason which is to foresee any radical shifts in Indian economic and foreign policies and what impact these heirs of their respective parties are going to have in present elections.
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