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The Foreign Desk: India’s Elections

What matters to India’s 800 million voters and how will these desires manifest in the 2014 parliamentary elections?

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Published on Apr 5, 2014
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India Decides 2014

India Decides 2014 provides timely analysis on India’s national elections and their impact on the country’s economy, domestic policy, and foreign relations. It brings together insights from Carnegie’s experts in Washington, New Delhi, and around the world.

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Source: Monocle’s Foreign Desk

As the world’s largest democracy heads to the polls, Monocle’s foreign editor Steve Bloomfield interviewed Carnegie’s Milan Vaishnav and Shashank Bengali of the Los Angeles Times to review key issues in the Indian parliamentary elections. They discussed how voters are fed up with inflation, corruption, and the poor state of India’s infrastructure as well as this election’s candidates and how they are, or are not, addressing these issues.  

This broadcast was originally published by Monocle’s the Foreign Desk.

About the Author

Milan Vaishnav

Director and Senior Fellow, South Asia Program

Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program and the host of the Grand Tamasha podcast at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior. He also conducts research on the Indian diaspora.

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