CAMBRIDGE — In 1984, when the British government was planning to build a flashy modernist addition to the National Gallery in London, Prince Charles offered a dissenting view. The proposed extension, he said, resembled “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.” A public controversy ensued, and eventually a more subtle addition was built.

There is more to the story, however. Prince Charles’ public interventions into architecture fell into a legal grey area. Was he improperly trying use the influence of the British monarchy — now meant to be nonpolitical — to affect government policy?

“It’s not quite clear whether Prince Charles was speaking as a private citizen or as a future monarch,” says Timothy Hyde, the Clarence H. Blackall Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Architecture. He adds: “Because of his architectural pronouncements, a series of constitutional debates has emerged about how such opinions should be regulated, or if they should be regulated at all.”

Indeed, Prince Charles’ public tussles over architecture have led to legal battles. In 2015, Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that 27 advocacy memos Prince Charles had written to various officials — on architecture, the environment, and other subjects — could not be kept private, meaning the public could scrutinize his activities. And more recently, Prince Charles has vowed not to make similar policy interventions should he become king.

So for Prince Charles, debates over architecture have spilled into questions of political power. But as Hyde explores in a new book, “Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye,” published by Princeton University Press, this is hardly unique. In Britain alone, Hyde notes, controversies specifically over the “ugliness” of buildings have shaped matters from libel law to environmental policy.

“Aesthetic arguments about ugliness have often served to tie architectural thinking to other kinds of debates and questions in parallel spheres of social and cultural production — things like science, law, professionalism,” Hyde says. “Debates about ugliness are very easily legible as debates about politics.”

Clearing the air

The impetus for the book, says Hyde, an architectural historian, came partly from the sheer number of people who have commented about “ugly” buildings to him. 

“It’s the frequency of that phrase, ‘What an ugly building,’ that really piqued my curiosity about ugliness,” Hyde says.

“Ugliness is an undertheorized dimension of architecture, given how common that critique is,” he adds. “People always think buildings are ugly. Particularly as a historian of modern architecture, I encounter any number of people who say ‘Oh, you’re a modern architectural historian, can you explain, why would an architect ever think to do a building like that?’”

Hyde’s book, however, is not simply about aesthetics. Instead, as he soon noticed, disputes centered around “ugly” buildings have a way of leaping into other domains of life. Consider libel laws. In the first decades of the 19th century, the prominent architect Sir John Soane filed a long series of libel cases against critics, which led to the larger evolution of the law.

“There was a prevailing assumption at the time that a work of architecture, a work of art, a work of literature, was an embodiment of its creator,” Hyde says. A critique of a building, then, could be seen a personal attack on an individual. But as Soane filed one libel cases after another — against people who used terms like “a ridiculous piece of architecture” and “a palpable eyesore” — he lost again and again. A bad review, the 

legal community decided, was simply that. 

“In the cases that John Soane brought for libel, all of which he lost … the modern conception that we have within libel law, of art criticism being a special case, emerged,” Hyde says. “Now what we take for granted, this modern idea that one can criticize a work of architecture or book, without necessarily saying its creator is a bad or immoral person, begins to emerge as a legal concept.”

Or take environmental policy, which gained traction in Britain due to concerns about the aesthetics of the Houses of Parliament. As Hyde details, the 19th century reconstruction of Britain’s Parliament — the old one burned in 1834 — soon became derailed, in the 1840s, by concerns that its limestone was already decaying and becoming ugly.

A formal inquiry by the end of the 1850s concluded that the sulphuric “acid rain” from London’s sooty atmosphere was corroding the city’s buildings — an important step for the incorporation of science into 19th-century policymaking, and a finding that helped usher in Britain’s 1875 Public Health Act, which directly addressed such pollution.

The levers of power

To be sure, as Hyde readily notes, the geographic scope of “Ugliness and Judgement” is limited to Britain, and almost exclusively on London architecture. It could well be worthwhile, he notes, to look at controversies over architecture, ugliness, and power in other settings, which might have their own distinctive elements.

Still, he notes, studying Britain alone uncovers a rich history stemming from the notion of “ugliness” by itself.

“Disagreements over questions of ugliness are much more volatile than disagreements over questions of beauty,” Hyde says. When it comes to politics and the law, he observes, “In some sense, beauty doesn’t matter as much. … The stakes are different.” Few people try to prevent buildings from being built, he notes, if they are merely a bit less beautiful than onlookers had hoped.

Perceptions of ugliness, however, precipitate civic battles.

“It’s a way to look for the levers of power,” Hyde says.

NEW DELHI, MAY 23:: In a landslide victory in elections to the 17^th Lok Sabha, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised for its second five-year innings under the captaincy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi guiding the destiny of the nation.

As the counting of the votes began on Thursday after a grueling seven-phase polling that extended to 38 days and trends started pouring in, it became amply clear that the saffron party will win 300 Lok Sabha seats on its own, securing a bigger mandate than the 2014 elections.

Riding on the popularity, appeal and leadership of Prime Minister Modi, the BJP-led NDA was all set to romp home with a tally of 340 seats. The main challenge from the Congress-led opposition turned out to be a non-starter with the grand old party facing an existential crisis and leading on 56 seats and the UPA’s tally likely to be around 100.

Leadership of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, charisma of her sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra seemed to have failed to enthuse voters in the Hindi heartland as well as other parts of the country. Even the much-touted `Nyay’’ scheme promising a payment of Rs. 72,000 every year to the most poor families failed to find favour with the targeted sections of the society. Issues like corruption, unemployment and farmers’ distress, GST and demonetization which were raised by the Congress during a long drawn campaign failed to capture the imagination of the electors. Out of a total electorate of 91 crore, all the seven phases witnessed a poll percentage of 67.11 per cent.

The biggest gain for the Lotus Party came from Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal where it fought pitched battle with chief minister Mamata Banerjee and appears all set to win 19 seats out of 42 total seats with the Trinamool Congress leading on 22 seats.

Focussing on a mix of development, nationalism and national security coupled with a strong and decisive leadership, the BJP was able to drive home its message to the voters.

In Uttar Pradesh, the SP-BSP alliance was maintaining its lead on 22 seats while the BJP was ahead on 57 seats.

It will be a historic victory for Mr. Modi as he would become the first non-Congress Prime Minister to have secured a second consecutive five-year term to rule the country with clear majority of his party.

Prominent among those who were trailing as the trends came in this evening were Congress stalwarts like Digvijay Singh from Bhopal, Raj Babbar from Fatehpur Sikri, Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna, Shatrughan Sinha from Patna Sahib and Rahul Gandhi from Amethi. Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda was trailing from Tumkur in Karnataka and former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar of CPI was trailing from Begusarai in Bihar.

As it became clear that the decisive and massive mandate was heavily tilted in favour of the BJP, Prime Minister Modi dedicated his party’s victory to a win for India and tweeted: “Together we grow. Together we prosper. Together we will build a strong and inclusive India. India wins yet again! #VijayiBharat.

While the Congress headquarter at Akbar Road wore a desolate look, it was celebration all the way at the BJP office at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg  as workers thronged the party office and gave a rousing welcome to the party president Amit Shah. 

In the evening, Congress president Rahul Gandhi spoke to media, saying he respected the mandate given by the people who were the real masters of the nation. He also congratulated PM Modi on BJP’s spectacular victory in the elections. 

NEW DELHI, MAY 23 :  Dedicating the massive victory of the BJP to the people of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday made three promises to the nation – nothing for self, never to work with ill intention and devoting every moment of his time for the country.

Amid lusty chants of “Modi, Modi’’ by enthusiastic party cadres at the BJP headquarters, the Prime Minister also assured the people that he would take even staunch political rivals along in his mission of building a new, developed and prosperous India during his second five year term of 2019 to 2024.

“It is possible to make mistakes while working but I will not do anything with wrong intention and my promise to the people of nation is that I will not do anything for myself,’’ Mr Modi said.

Seeking to unveil his new image of a consensus builder, Mr. Modi, in his victory speech, said that negative forces have been crushed by the massive mandate given by the people to the BJP-led NDA which also casts a heavy responsibility on the ruling dispensation.

Pledging that the Constitution was supreme for him and the party, he gave a clarion call to his compatriots to eliminate poverty as India marches ahead to become a developed nation over the next few years. He said there would be only two castes in India in future – those who are poor and those who seek to help the poor and eliminate poverty.

 “Whatever happened in the elections, it’s past now…will take the opposition along in the interest of the nation and in the spirit of the Constitution,’’ he said.

Mr. Modi said that 2019 general elections were devoid of oft-repeated issues of corruption, casteism and price rise. He also sought to pull the mask off the so-called pseudo secular forces who, he added, would need to latch on to a wholly new narrative of a new, confident, positive and aspirational India of 21^st century.

Referring to the BJP’s electoral journey from two Lok Sabha seats to returning to power for a second term in 2019, Mr. Modi said the party had never deviated from its ideals, beliefs, humility, culture and conscience. “There have been many ups and downs in our journey from two MPs to winning a second term but we have not compromised with our principles and will not give up our humility,’’ he told the gathering.

He said the landslide victory of the BJP was that of 40 crore-strong unorganized labourers for whom pension scheme has been launched and was also that of law-abiding and tax paying middle class.

Boys suffer even more than girls to adverse events as children including physical and emotional neglect, violence and sexual abuse which makes them more likely to be violent in return, a new study has suggested.
In poor urban areas around the world, exposure to adverse events as children—including physical and emotional neglect, violence, and sexual abuse—is strongly associated with both adolescent depression and violence perpetrated by young people, according to the study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“This is the first global study to investigate how a cluster of traumatic childhood experiences known as ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences, work together to cause specific health issues in early adolescence with terrible, life-long consequences,” said Dr. Robert Blum, lead researcher for the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) that is based in multiple countries across five continents.
“And while we found young girls often suffer significantly, contrary to common belief, boys reported even greater exposure to violence and neglect, which makes them more likely to be violent in return.” The study catalogued the ACEs suffered by 1,284 adolescents aged 10 to 14 in 14 “low-income urban settings” around the world. It found remarkably common experiences with trauma—and very similar impacts—regardless of where the children lived, which included Vietnam, China, Bolivia, Egypt, India, Kenya, UK and the United States. 
The report is the first to include an assessment of how adversity impacts young children in multiple low- and middle-income countries, where the vast majority of the 1.8 billion 10- to 24-year-olds worldwide live—about a quarter of the global population. 
Overall, the study found that 46% of young adolescents reported experiencing violence, 38% suffered emotional neglect and 29% experienced physical neglect. But boys stood out in several categories. They were more likely to report physical neglect, sexual abuse and violence victimization. Also, for both boys and girls, the more adversity they experienced, the more likely they were to engage in violent behaviors, such as bullying, threatening or hitting someone. But the effect of the adversity was more pronounced for boys than girls, with boys 11 times more likely to be engaged in violence, and girls four times more likely to be violent. Also, the study found that, in general, the cumulative effect of their traumas tended to produce higher levels of depressive symptoms among girls than boys, while boys tended to show more external aggression than girls. 
The study is part of the Global Early Adolescent Study, a major collaboration of the World Health Organization and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to understand more about the development of gender stereotypes in early adolescence and their impact on adolescent health around the world.
And it buttresses a key conclusion from a major new report to be released next week at Women Deliver in Vancouver based on a global coalition of adolescent health experts: that the world will never achieve gender equality “by focusing on girls and women alone and excluding boys and men.” That report, from the Bellagio Working Group on Gender Equality, reflects the assessment of 22 experts from 15 countries. Their analysis, Achieving Gender Equality by 2030: Putting Adolescents at the Center, finds that boys have as equal a part to play as girls in achieving the fifth of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG5), which seeks to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” by 2030. The report notes that the current indicators for SDG5 ignore boys and men. But it warns that “we cannot achieve a gender equitable world by ignoring half of its occupants.” 
Global Early Adolescent Study Over the past six years, an international consortium of 15 countries has been working on the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS). The GEAS aims to understand how gender norms are formed in early adolescence and how they predispose young people to subsequent sexual and other health risks.

Dropping out of school and college always considered as a bad decision in our society. The majority feels that education and a fancy college degree is the only way to success and happy stable life. There have been many examples in the past of people who are school/college dropouts and made it big in life. 
Shubham Kalosiya is one of those amazing examples who started from the bottom and made it big. Shubham who comes from an ordinary middle-class family and is a college dropout is the new sensation in the rap music industry. He is the founder of “Artist Mine Music” which supports and promotes the underground rappers.
However, this success didn’t come easy as there were a lot of difficulties that Shubham Kalosiya had to face to reach this level.
Basically residing from Rajasthan belonging from a simple family he never had any financial support from anyone. When Shubham was in the first year of college studying BA he made one of the brave and toughest choices of his life to quit the studies and work for his dream to be an entrepreneur.
Shubham Kalosiya got his first break when he was just 17 years old where he was an Artist event manager and from his journey started. He started working and event manager, organiser and found his way in the music industry. Shubham loved the show business and wanted to start his own music label which was a quite big dream to achieve as an individual.
A dream never becomes true unless you work for it and that’s what exactly Shubham Kalosiya did. Instead of thinking about the difficulties of his journey and getting demotivated he thought of the ways how he can do it and achieve his dream. His positive attitude towards life and with sheer hard work and dedication he finally made his dream true when he founded his own music company “Artist Mine Music”.
The Rap and Hip Hop culture in India has been in a rage from the past few years and has seen a lot of young talented artist like Emiway who raised from a very simple background. Shubham’s company Artist Mine Music search for these type of underground rappers and artist and promotes and support them.
Having seen the difficulties and struggle in his life Shubham Kalosiya wants to help other struggling artist and rappers in achieving their dreams by providing them with a platform and he also wishes to take Artist Mine Music on the international level.

The counting of votes for General Election 2019, which concluded on Sunday, will begin tomorrow, i.e., 23rd May at 8 AM.  The election was conducted in 7 phases for 543 constituencies of Lok Sabha.  The Election Commission of India (ECI) uses Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) to conduct elections. Since 2000, ECI has conducted 113 assembly elections and three general elections using EVMs.[1]  Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) system was added to EVMs in 2013 to increase transparency and improve voter confidence in the system.  The VVPAT system generates a printed paper slip bearing the name and election symbol of the candidate.  On April 8, 2019, Supreme Court instructed the ECI that printed VVPAT slips from randomly selected five polling stations in each assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency should be matched with EVMs.[2]  In this blog, we explain the election counting process in India.
Who is responsible for counting the votes?
The Returning Officer (RO) is responsible for conducting elections in a constituency, which also includes counting of votes.[3] The RO is an officer of the government or a local authority nominated by the ECI for each constituency in consultation with the state government.[4]
Where does the counting take place?
The RO decides the place where the votes will be counted for the parliamentary constituency.  The date and time of counting is fixed by the ECI.  Ideally counting of votes for a constituency should be done at one place, preferably at the Headquarter of the RO in that constituency.  It should be performed under the direct supervision of the RO.  However, each Parliamentary Constituency has multiple assembly segments.  In this situation, counting can take place at different locations for various assembly segments under the direct supervision of an Assistant Returning Officer (ARO).
Page 431, Handbook for Returning Officer Document 23 Edition 1, Election Commission of India
Counting of votes for each assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency is performed in a single hall.  In each round of counting, votes from 14 EVMs are counted.  In case of simultaneous parliamentary and assembly elections, such as Odisha, the first seven tables are used for counting votes for assembly elections, and the rest for parliamentary elections.
In constituencies with a large number of candidates, it may not be possible to count votes for all candidates in a single hall without overcrowding it.  In such a situation, the number of counting halls or tables can be increased with the prior permission of the ECI.  A hall can also be used for counting votes of another assembly segment after the results of the first segment are declared.  However, counting may be done for only one assembly segment in a hall at any point of time.
What is the counting process?
Counting is performed by counting supervisors appointed by the RO.  Counting staff is appointed through a three stage randomisation process to ensure impartiality.  Candidates along with their counting agents and election agents are also present in the counting hall.
Counting of votes begins with Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballots (ETPB) and Postal Ballots (PB). These votes are counted under the direct supervision of the RO. Counting of EVMs can start 30 minutes after the commencement of PB counting, even if all PBs have not been counted.  At the end of each round of counting, the results from 14 EVMs are declared.
What is the process for counting VVPAT slips?
The ECI prescribes the process for randomly selecting one EVM for each assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency for VVPAT matching.  The verification of VVPAT paper slips is conducted inside a secured VVPAT Counting Booth in the counting hall with access to authorised personnel only.  Any counting table in the hall can be converted into VVPAT Counting Booth after completing EVM vote counting.  Parliamentary constituencies generally have between five and ten assembly segments.
The Supreme Court has decided that VVPAT slips of five randomly selected polling stations for each assembly segment shall be matched with the result shown in the respective EVMs.  This implies that VVPAT paper slips need to be matched for about 25-50 machines for each parliamentary constituency.  This process requires personal supervision of RO/ARO.  The ECI has decided that the counting of five VVPATs will be done sequentially.[5]  The RO can declare the final result for the constituency after the VVPAT matching process has been completed.
What happens if there is a discrepancy between the VVPAT count and the EVM results?
In such a case, the printed paper slips count is taken as final. The ECI has not clarified whether there would be any further action (such as counting of all VVPATs in a constituency or assembly segment) if there is a discrepancy in the counts of one of the five VVPATs.

Source – PRS

Born in Latvia in the year 1995, Linard Zarins is a Spanish based singer and songwriter. He is the most up-and-coming music stars who perform an intuitive blend of both pop and R&B tracks. Owing to his versatile singing expertise, he has multiplied his broad and engaged fan base day by day. Linard Zarins is mainly known for his 2017 appearance in the Latvian version of The X Factor.

With an aim to excel in this profession, Zarins has capitalized his success through a slew of appreciable covers of international superstars like Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Mabel, Justin Bieber, and many more. All the covers are widely acclaimed by his fans and this has been seen on his social pages. Day by day, he organically grew his followers on Instagram and other social platforms.

As his online presence started gaining the attention of producers, other artists, and A&R executives he started getting acclaimed and recognition. Many of the producers and other artists started pitching him to work with him and they are even ready to feature him on their tracks/songs. Few asked him to collaborate with him as a singer. With all these acclamations at one side, Linards Zarins has something as his aim and he then decided to write and release his own music album. This is what made him the stand on the list of emerging artists of the time.

When asked him about his genre and his passion of singing and song writing, he said, “When I write my music, I want to make sure I not only appeal to a greater demographic of music lovers, but also to make sure I’m true to my own style as a musician,” says Linards. “By composing and performing a combination of both pop and R&B songs, I feel I’m able to reach out to a wider audience and express myself organically.”

Besides, he also said “Though performing these covers really helped to launch my career, I was very grateful to garner the attention of reputable producers, other artists, and A&R executives,” states Linards. “They all wanted to work with me to develop my own music and collaborate, which led me to release my own work.”

With all his passion and expertise, he has released his debut single, Good Thing, which mainly reflects on the vast array of emotions he felt in past relationships. 

The Linards Zarins song has intimate connections, where the listeners can connect to the moments of pure happiness and bliss, even in the times of soul-crushing stress and sadness, pride, and excitement in between. He encouraged is fans stating “Through Good Thing, I want to help listeners to understand that through turmoil, there is still hope and lessons to be learned,” says Linards. “We must all go on and prepare for future exciting new adventures in love.”

Digital Entrepreneur: Today Branding, Promotion and Digital marketing are becoming the need of an hour to survive in this competitive world. Yes, you can sell your product, can do personal promotion which can make a person famous and we can see many examples today how people get famous online. Smart work can help businessman earn fast and big due to digital marketing and for that, you need a person with sound knowledge who can work smartly and make a solid campaign for online marketing to take you from zero to millionaire. We are taking here about Digital Entrepreneur who drives business throughout the world online. 

JP Silwania, 20( Now student at Ramjas college , Delhi University): In this competitive world you need to be smart to sell your product and make a mark in this Digital world. His Company Smartplay Media  is Leading Brand in Digital Marketing. At the Age of 20,JP Silwania Have Achieved An Honour of Digital Marketing Expert in very Less time Span. Worked with Leading Brands T-Series, Sony India,  Drake, Badshah, and Many More in Very Short Period of Time. Digital Marketing to grow in India: Today world is getting used to mobile and internet every guy is now having a mobile with internet facility it is like a new habit of India. JP Silwania feels India is yet to understand the power of online marketing and has jumped into this business early in India and he feels more people become aware of this online benefits his business will grow even bigger. 

JP Silwania and his team:  JP Silwania has dedicated team he knows this work needs a good team and luckily he has that. Company website https://smartplaymedia.com/ from where clients can contact him. JP Silwania  and his team have worked for many Companies, Firms and Celebrities their Motto is simple to make people famous through an online platform and they are doing it successfully.

Nikhil Wairagar who is known for the movies like Jalsa , Gatmat , headline and also for his famous song Bai Wadyawar Ya  from movie jalsa , now turns into direction. He is going to direct his direction debut movie “Hero” in upcoming days. 
As Gatmat movie which was written by Nikhil Wairagar himself and which was presented by Avdhood Gupte, got good response by the audience . And now he is working on a project named HERO which  is also written by him and he is going to direct it for the first time . He is working in film industry from more then nine years and he thinks that working in acting field he has learned many things related film making , so he confident that he has chosen a good subject for his direction debut. He is working on a script from 6 months and now ready to go on floor soon .
His upcoming movies like “tu fakta ho mhan” and “Tanga palti ghode farar “in Which he has done acting in a lead role are also in Post production level and will also release soon .Nowadays Marathi film industry is going on top level and breaking many box office records,He thinks bringing unique films will make Marathi industry grow more stronger, so he has also chosen a unique concept for direction, the casting of the film will soon be finalized , this film will go on floor in September for shoot. The more details about the movie will be declared soon.

NEW DELHI: After the conclusion of the long-drawn seven phase polling on Sunday, leading exit polls predicted the return of Narendra Modi government at the Centre with easy and clear majority.

If exit polls predictions come true on May 23, the day when results will start pouring in, it would be a first for the BJP-led NDA coalition to have another go at governing the country for a second five-year term.

The Congress-led UPA coalition was predicted to see its tally of 60 seats of 2014 of more than doubling but exit polls indications are that it would not prove to be a strong challenger to dislodge the Modi government from the Centre.

In the most crucial state of Uttar Pradesh which sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha, ABP News exit poll predicted 22 seats for the BJP while 56 to SP-BSP alliance and two to the Congress. Poll of Polls projected 55 seats to BJP in UP and 23 to SP-BSP tie-up and two to the Congress. In the last 2014 polls, BJP had bagged 71 seats in the State on its own.

All leading exit polls on Sunday evening indicated a comfortable majority for the ruling BJP led NDA dispensation, strongly projecting its return to power in the 17^th Lok Sabha elections.

As the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections concluded on Sunday, all eyes turned to the projections being made by the exit polls by several news channels and surveys for the 542 seats that went to polls.

Times Now-VMR exit poll predicted 306 seats for the BJP-led NDA ruling dispensation. It projected 132 seats for the Congress-led UPA while gave others 104 seats.

Republic-C Voter projected 287 seats for the BJP—NDA coalition and 128 for the Congress-UPA.

According to News Nation predicted 282-290 seats for the BJP-led NDA, 118 – 126 seats for UPA and 130-136 for others.

According to surveys, BJP seems to have regained lost ground in three crucial Hindi heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh which the Lotus party had lost last years in assembly polls to the Congress. The exit polls indicate that BJP could win 22 out of 25 total seats in Rajasthan, 25 out of 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh and seven out of 11 seats in Chhattisgarh. In the national capital of Delhi, exit polls predicted a clean sweep for the BJP on all seven Lok Sabha seats.

The first phase of polling had kicked off on April 11 and the long drawn campaign and polling amidst heat and dust proved to be a long drawn and tiring affair for the political bigwigs as well as the people who turned up to cast their votes. A 90-crore strong electorate was registered in 2019 general elections, showing an increase of nine crore electors as compared to the last polls in 2014.