Indian general election, 2009

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Indian general election, 2009
May, 2009

India is scheduled to hold general elections to the fifteenth Lok Sabha by May 2009. The elections may be held earlier due to the current government losing its majority or opting for early elections, but neither situation has seriously appeared thus far.

The Bharatiya Janata Party announced on December 11, 2007 that their candidate for Prime Minister would be party leader Lal Krishna Advani^[1]. On January 23rd, 2008, leaders from the BJP and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance convened to officially elect him their candidate^[2].

Rahul Gandhi may run as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the Indian National Congress and its allies, but thus far his candidacy has been a matter of speculation.^[3] No other party or alliance has officially or unofficially projected a Prime Ministerial candidate.

These elections will be the first in over 30 years to be fought on new constituency boundaries, based on the finding of the Delimitation commission. Major changes include the reservation and de-reservation of seats and the merging of portions of different constituencies to eliminate population discrepancies between different seats. The central government of India has deferred delimitation in Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Jharkhand for the time being.

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