Breaking Records: India's Historic Election and the Rise of NOTA

With the conclusion of the General Lok Sabha election in India there comes out of the box results which were not predicted by the exit polls. With the conclusion of the elections Election commission of India came forward and gave the important and very factual numbers. It says that India has made a world record with total of 642 million voters who voted in these elections.

This number i.e. 642 million is a record in itself as it is:

• 1.5 times greater than the total voters of the G7 countries.
• 2.5 times greater than the voters of the all 27 countries of the European Union.

It is the largest festival of the democracy and democracy provides option to individuals to elect their representative and get better governance. So in this festival of democracy everyone has their right to vote and choice to elect.

• There comes an important conclusion from the results of the general lok Sabha elections that there is no single party which gets complete majority and due to this ,collision government is about to form.

During this time we have witnessed a record break of NOTA (None of the above). In Madhya Pradesh’s Indore constituency NOTA is the runner up with more than 200000 votes in favour of NOTA.

Why does this happened?

The congress candidate Mr. Akshya kanti Bam withdrew his candidature and joined BJP and date for filling the nomination for the new candidate had already gone, so with no choice congress in its campaign asked the voters to vote for NOTA.

From where does NOTA Came?