Why The Indian Elections are Massive in Scale and Importance

Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party, Amit Shah (C) and Ravi Shankar Prasad (2L) celebrate victory at their party's headquarters in New Delhi on May 16, 2014.
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