India in the Year of Parliamentary Elections: The Alignment of Socio-political Forces and the Peculiarities of the Electoral System. The Interests of Russia

A. G. Volodin ()

Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law, 2025, vol. 17, issue 3

Abstract: The article investigates the alignment of socio-political forces in India on the eve of the parliamentary elections held in April-May 2024. In the first part of the paper, the positions and ideological preferences of the main electoral blocs, the National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the I.N.D.I.A. party coalition under the Indian National Congress are compared, attention is drawn to the strengths and weaknesses of each of the above-mentioned associations. The second part of the article focuses on estimates and forecasts of the results of parliamentary election. The results of the general election are analyzed from the perspective of the electoral system of ‘relative majority’ functioning in India. In the final part of the paper, an attempt is made to assess the impact of the results of the parliamentary election on the prospects for the development of Russian-Indian relations.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.31249/kgt/2024.03.01

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