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1 INDIA-2014/05/19 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION THE RESULTS OF INDIA’S 2014 GENERAL ELECTION Washington, D.C. Monday, May 19, 2014 PARTICIPANTS: Moderator: TANVI MADAN Fellow and Director, The India Project The Brookings Institution Panelists: SADANAND DHUME Resident Fellow American Enterprise Institute RICHARD ROSSOW Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies Center for Strategic and International Studies MILAN VAISHNAV Associate, South Asia Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace DHRUVA JAISHANKAR Transatlantic Fellow, Asia Program German Marshall Fund of the United States * * * * * ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 2 INDIA-2014/05/19 P R O C E E D I N G S MS. MADAN: Good morning. I'm Tanvi Madan, a fellow in the foreign policy program at Brookings, and the director of the India Project here. The India Project is the U.S.-based part of the Brookings India Initiative. The India-based part is our center in Delhi, the Brookings India Center. If you'd like to learn more about them, you can visit their website at Brookings.in. I'd like to welcome all those of you here today, and those of you who are joining us via webcast. If you're following along on Twitter, or tweeting yourself, we are using the hashtag #indiaelections. For those who have been following Indian politics, this has been quite a year, and quite an exciting year. It culminated in an election where we were five weeks, 550 million Indians, 66 percent of the electorate turned out to vote.
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