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HIGHLIGHTS Held in Five phases between 16 April 2009 and 13 May 2009.
TOTAL NO. OF ELECTORATES : 714 MILLION
There were 828,804 polling stations around the country - a 20% increase over the number from the 2004 election
The average election turnout over all 5 phases was around 59.7%.
The UPA was able to put together a comfortable majority with support from 322 members out of 543 members of the House.
Manmohan Singh became the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962 to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term
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CIVIL SOCIETY ???
Civil society is composed of the totality of voluntary civic and social organizations and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society as opposed to the force-backed structures of a state (regardless of that state's political system) and commercial institutions of the market.
Civil society refers to the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values.
‘The state is seen as a precondition of civil society‘:WHAITES
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EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL SOCIETIES
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VOTEINDIA (http://www.voteindia.org) is a non-partisan people's movement launched under the aegis of Lok Satta Convenor Jayaprakash Narayan. The movement that comprises civil society organisations and individuals, aims to make citizens realise the need for systematic reforms and bring about a significant improvement in the existing political system by overcoming the crisis in governance.
Another initiative, Vote India (http://www.voteindia.in), was launched by some engineering students and professionals in May 2006. Vote India is another voter awareness website that believes that "the country will change only if the educated exercise the power of the ballot". VoteIndia.in offers downloadable copies of the forms required to register as a voter or to modify name/address in the voters' list etc.
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Like VOTEINDIA.org, the ivote (http://wearthemark.org), is a project run by students with an aim to create politically active youth. The main objective of the centre is to encourage students, particularly the upper middle class urban youth to register themselves as voters and practice their Right to Vote.
(http://www.bharatvotes.org) that aims to create voting awareness among the educated middle-class citizens of India and engaging them in mainstream democracy. With a tagline, 'Voting is not your Right, it's your Duty!', Bharat Votes is attempting to reach out to the global Indian audience.
MEDIA: NEW STYLE STATEMENT, PAPPU
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CONCLUSION:
WHAT WENT WRONG ???
NEGATIVE VOTING .