INDIA-- The world’s largest democracy has another date with change this summer, to elect its 16th Lok Sabha.
One change that has already happened is that it has acquired the overtones of the US presidential polls, although only the challenger – the BJP’s Narendra Modi – has taken the stage.
For, the incumbent Congress has made it very clear it will not join the game of “who is bigger – your Modi or Our Rahul?”.
Opinion polls so far show the BJP-led NDA emerging as the single largest formation, but substantially short of the magical figure of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha.
Since the projections didn’t show much enthusiasm for the Congress-led UPA, a hung Parliament is very much on the horizon. It could mean the regional biggies may get to influence government formation.
Since uncertainty makes the 2014 polls an exciting one, HT has picked up five hot states where there are no clear trends and five cool ones — the BJP already won four of them in the recent assembly polls — where the picture is relatively clearer.
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