Even before india started its long march to economic reform, moving citizens into a new global class indias democracy showed something important to the world. It showed the developing country could hold free and fair elections, could have robust discussions and hand over power peacefully between one faction and another again and again. There is all that, gathering and counting 550 million votes. But now that india is modernizing, deeply anchoring in an economy, what it makes and what it takes matters. In a big, big way. How long does it take to have 1. 2 billion people to have an election . About two weeks as it turns out. There are 800 million registered voters, and hundreds of parties and candidates , 272 seats are needed to make a government. Exit polls are unreliable in a country this large, but all the signs point to a Sweeping Change for india and its economy, the Third Largest in asia. If the exit polls hold the new Prime Minister will be Narendra Modi or arvind kejriwal. Modi i
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