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Debasish Roy Chowdhury

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Journo/Author; To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage To Despotism; Words @ Pan Macmillan, OUP, Sage, Routledge, NYT, TIME, SCMP, Haaretz, WashTimes, Caravan, ET

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1.4b/140 crore.
BJP got 37% of votes cast, or support of 37% of the people who actually voted. Since 33% didn't, that's about 20% of all voters. So just a fifth of the voters supported BJP. And electorate is not the same as population, so support as % of population is even lower

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