India General Elections 2019 Analysis

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Author

Aditya Mangal

Published

May 7, 2019

Keywords

tech, Summary

Project Summary

With a whole lot of buzz in India (and world) about the 2019 General Elections in India, I thought it would be a good idea to do some election analysis of these pivotal elections in India’s history. I’ll start with analyzing the 2019 Election Manifestos of the 2 biggest political parties in India, the Bhartiya Janta Party and the Indian National Congress.

Project Goals

  • Data collection and cleaning for the election manifestos of the 2 parties.

  • Take a deep dive into the following 6 crucial sections of these manifestos for these elections -

  • Economic Growth

  • Employment and opportunities

  • Anti-corruption and Good Governance

  • Inclusion and Diversity

  • National Security

  • Education, Healthcare and Misc.

In the next series of posts I’ll roughly follow the above steps and link them here to this master project summary page. Here goes -