//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>64 : Indian Elections 2009: The Prime-ministerial Candidates
Amitendu Palit, Visiting Research Fellow at the ISAS
13 May 2009
The casting of votes for India's 15th general elections draws to a close on 13 May 2009. The final phase of voting on 13 May 2009 will see curtains coming down on the elections in the world's largest democracy - an exercise that lasted for almost four weeks spread over 543 constituencies across 28 states and seven Union Territories.