What is the difference between the world’s oldest democracy and the world’s largest? In the former, men take office and then become mass murderers; in the latter, men become mass murderers and then take office. Having persuaded a fifth of the Indian electorate to vote for him, thereby securing nearly a third—31% to be precise—of all votes cast, Narendra Damodardas Modi crushed all opposition to stride onto the national stage as the undisputed leader of the Indian polity; commanding nearly two-thirds of all seats in the 16th Lok Sabha. When the ‘first past the post’ undiluted Westminster model was imported by the framers of the constitution in the late-1940s, it was designed to deliver crushing majorities in the Lok Sabha for the Indian National Congress. Now that the
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What is the difference between the world’s oldest democracy and the world’s largest? In the former, men take office and then become mass murderers; in the latter, men become mass murderers and then take office. Having persuaded a fifth of the Indian electorate to vote for him, thereby securing nearly a third—31% to be precise—of all votes cast, Narendra Damodardas Modi crushed all opposition to stride onto the national stage as the undisputed leader of the Indian polity; commanding nearly two-thirds of all seats in the 16th Lok Sabha. When the ‘first past the post’ undiluted Westminster model was imported by the framers of the constitution in the late-1940s, it was designed to deliver crushing majorities in the Lok Sabha for the Indian National Congress. Now that the