India finished the vote and patient waiting to know the election result

September 4, 2009

New Delhi, 13 may 2009. - Hundreds of millions of Indians began today a patient wants to know, on Saturday, the election results, after completing the fifth and final day of voting in the Asian giant.
The last polling stations closed their doors at 17:00 local time (11.30 GMT) in the nine states and territories that voted today and which ended a process that had begun on 16 April.
They were called to the polls 107.8 million Indian states of Himachal, Uttarakhand, Kashmir, Punjab and Uttar in the north, Bengal in the east and Tamil Nadu in the south and in the territories of Chandigarh (north) and Pondicherry (south).
The last voters of an electoral body composed of 714 million people, chose 86 of the 543 seats in Parliament than will the new government.
Thirty-nine of the seats were played in Tamil Nadu, where the campaign has been marked by the war in neighboring Sri Lanka, since the army launched a final offensive against Tamil guerrillas that has caused thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of displaced between the population of the same ethnicity as the southern Indian state.
Tamil Nadu is dominated by two regional parties, DMK and AIADMK on whose leaders have accused each other of not doing enough for the civilians in the neighboring country and have come to fast campaign to show solidarity with the victims of the conflict.
During voting in Tamil Nadu, 13 people were injured in different clashes and a member of the DMK was stabbed to death in the city of Dindigul, victim of a dispute with rival party members, IANS news agency reported.
The victims are in addition to at least 26 deaths since the start of voting, mostly in Maoist guerrilla actions in states that boycotted the elections.
Among the candidates is now playing out the controversial seat Varun Gandhi, grandson of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who became a star of the campaign by a speech by anti-Muslim overtone.
The wayward Varun, 29, was not submitted by the Party Congress of the family dynasty, but by the opposition Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and did so in Philibit district (Uttar), where he starred in another controversy today officials accusing the board of favoring a rival candidate.
At the end of voting, the major parties acknowledged their inability to achieve absolute majority have already been launched to search for potential allies to govern.
"I trust that it will form a government led by BJP. We will get new partners "after the elections, told IANS the president of such training, Rajnath Singh.
Days ago, the prime minister and candidate of the ruling Congress Party, Manmohan Singh, did not rule out alliances with any party and described the policy as "the art of the possible."
The uncertainty about the result has led many analysts to conceive of elections as a "semi" before "end" will be the negotiations to form a government.
The outgoing parliament was dominated by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), a coalition of ten parties led by the Congress and with external support and future of various forces, including the powerful Communists.
But now the Communists capitanean a Third Front of regional parties also formed, which was offered as an alternative to Congress and the BJP.
"The new Parliament will be a 'quícheri'" said Senator Efe Mahmood Madani, referring to a stir rice and lentils typical of the subcontinent.
The Electoral Commission made ​​the counting of votes on Saturday and expects to announce the results the same day, told Efe the election commissioner SY Qureshi.
The winner will face the increasing effects on India of the international economic crisis, terrorism, the fight against various armed movements and the renewed tensions with neighboring Pakistan.
Although colorful anecdotes and mass rallies, the campaign has suffered from a lack of proposals for the future beyond the generic promises of development and has been marked mostly by poor implementation of regional discussions to the whole country.