Similarities and Differences Between Indian and American Elections By Deepak Parvatiyar April 10, 2015 Rate this post 1 Vote In his first media interview, eight months after becoming the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi quipped that he found it “amusing” how people, who did not talk about a ‘Modi wave’ in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, “are now engaged in intense discussion” regarding such a wave. He was replying to a question on the perceived end of the ‘Modi wave’ in Delhi assembly elections. How India Elects Its Prime Minister? Obviously, the last general election was remarkable for the fact that it was contested very much on the pattern of the presidential elections in the United States of America. It was all about the creation and marketing of Brand Modi – the BJP’s PM candidate, a la the US presidential elections. This was very unlike the Westminster system of democracy, modelled after the politics of the United Kingdom, that India follows. In the UK
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