Reborn as a Police Officer in India

Chapter 573 A Desperate Parliamentary Seat

With the arrival of the old immortal, everyone quickly quieted down.

In response to the election, Lao Xian gave a speech, which consisted of some remarks made within their People's Party.

The speech was definitely positive, and he expressed his gratitude for everyone's hard work.

Everyone was in high spirits and extremely excited.

There's no way around it; they'll be in power for three consecutive terms, which is quite astonishing.

Such achievements were only made during Nehru's era.

It is foreseeable that they will gain even more power in the next five years.

Everyone present will benefit more.

At the same time, it can further suppress the opponent.

The Congress Party has caused them a lot of trouble over the years.

Going forward, they won't give the Congress Party many more opportunities.

This country will belong to them in the future.

How can it not be exciting to have a dominant position and hold absolute power?

Often, things don't go as planned.

the more you hope, the harder you fall.

The vote counting process, which lasted three days, quickly yielded results.

On June 4, the final results were announced.

Some are happy and some are sad.

The People's Party headquarters was filled with many high-ranking officials, but the atmosphere at this moment was completely different from that of three days ago.

Everyone looked solemn, some even with anger in their eyes, asking questions with resentment.

Why are there only so many seats?

"You promised over four hundred seats? There are only 203 seats now?"

"Ken is wrong somewhere, the statistics are wrong, that's right, Ken is right."

"We need to check your tickets..."

The People's Party only won 203 seats, a number far below their expectations.

Many people believe there's something wrong with this; either someone is secretly manipulating the data or the statistics are incorrect.

After all, this was really outrageous.

Forget about the previously expected 370 seats; they haven't even reached a majority yet. This means that if the People's Party wants to continue governing, it must unite with its allies.

It needs the seats of its allies to reach a majority, and only then can it become the ruling party.

Although they could still govern in this way, the meaning would be completely different.

Previously, they were the dominant force, holding more than half of the seats, and didn't need to consider the opinions of other allies.

They can no longer ignore the opinions of these allies.

If we don't share the benefits with them, these guys might defect to the Congress Party, which could cause the People's Party to lose its ruling party status.

There was a strong demand for ticket verification, which finally prompted the usually silent Old Immortal to speak up.

There will be no problems with the statistics.

Because Lao Xian knew very well that if any problems were to arise, it wouldn't be the People's Party.

They are so powerful now, it's already good enough that they don't tamper with the vote count. Who else could tamper with it and change their vote count?
So, this result is not a problem.

This time, their People's Party has truly suffered a Waterloo.

Only 203 seats—what a disheartening number!

It's worth noting that they won 303 seats in the last election, but this time they lost 100 seats.

Even the old immortal didn't expect this outcome.

He believes that reaching 370 seats this time will be very difficult.

This is just a publicity stunt; we definitely need to create a strong atmosphere. 370 seats is everyone's goal.

In his view, achieving 350 seats would be very good, and it's something that can be achieved; that's a more realistic goal.

But what's the situation now?
This has utterly humiliated their People's Party.

Wouldn't all those previous promotions have backfired?

The old immortal's words calmed everyone down a bit.

In fact, they knew that there wouldn't be any problems with the vote counting.

It's already good enough that we don't give the Congress Party any ammunition; who would give them any opportunity to do something behind the scenes?
This result, with its dishearteningly low number of seats, is truly unacceptable to them.

Even if the number of seats drops significantly, they can accept it as long as they maintain a majority.

The current situation prevents them from securing a majority of seats, and the consequences could be enormous. If things go wrong, it could lead to a major upheaval in Indian politics.

“Damn Congress,” someone cursed.

The Congress Party won 89 seats this time, an increase of 37 seats from the previous election, making it the second-largest party in terms of seats.

Although this number of seats is less than half that of the People's Party, the fact that one party has suffered a sharp decline while the other is growing shows a trend.

The People's Party still has a strong sense of danger.

On the Congress Party side, most of the high-ranking members of the People's Party originally did not take them seriously.

They felt that the Congress Party had basically no chance.

In the previous two terms, the Congress Party's presence was too weak because they had too few seats to be worth mentioning.

But who could have imagined that the Congress Party seems to be making a comeback? This time the vote has increased, and if it continues to increase in the next general election, and if they can't stop their decline, the votes for the two parties might be almost equal.

In particular, this time the Congress Party is qualified to become the leader of the opposition.

Opposition leaders wield special power and status in India.

Although the Congress Party was the leader of the opposition in the previous two terms, that's just a title.

It can only be said that the Congress Party is the leader and backbone of the opposition.

Although the Congress Party's vote count was lower than that of the People's Party, it still ranked second, which was significantly more than other opposition parties.

Coupled with the Congress Party's own established foundation, it naturally became the leader of those opposition groups.

However, this "leader" is not the same as the opposition leader in the legal sense.

To become the leader of the opposition, one needs at least 55 seats in the federal parliament.

In the previous two elections, the Congress Party's campaign situation was extremely bleak, with fewer than 55 seats in both elections. Naturally, it was unable to become the leader of the opposition and enjoy the power that came with this position.

Now, the Congress Party has 89 seats, which is enough to become the leader of the opposition.

The leader of the opposition party is the leader of the largest opposition party in parliament and enjoys specific powers and responsibilities granted by the constitution and laws.

They are given the same salary and benefits as cabinet ministers, making them equivalent to cabinet ministers.

Besides these, there are many other powers.

For example, one can monitor government spending, question government policies, supervise executive power, request review of major policies, and delay the legislative process, etc.

With these powers, the ruling party can no longer ignore protests from the opposition.

Previously, the People's Party didn't care about the opposition at all. Even if they made any protests, they were just protests and had no legal effect, so they were almost ignored.

Because the ruling party has the right to ignore these things.

But now it's different; the opposition leader has that power to create checks and balances.

There are also powers under special circumstances.

The president has the power to appoint advisors, which means that when the president appoints important positions, such as the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation or the director of the law enforcement agency, opposition leaders are legally entitled to be consulted.

These special positions require approval from the current government and then appointment by the president.

This is procedure. Although in India, the prime minister holds the real power, many things still require the president to make the final announcement.

If opposition leaders object to these appointments, even the president must carefully consider them.

Why have the two People's Party administrations been so powerful, using the law enforcement bureau's various attacks to leave the opposition with almost no chance to fight back?

It's precisely because the Congress Party has had fewer than 55 seats in both terms that it lacks the power of an opposition leader.

Without this power, it will be even more difficult to check the power of the People's Party.

Now that the Congress Party has become the leader of the opposition, the power of the People's Party will be greatly limited.

Not to mention, the People's Party didn't even have a majority of seats to begin with, so it has to give up a lot of power and benefits to its allies here.

This means that even if the People's Party wins the ruling power this term, its power will be far less than that of the previous two terms.

Those present had enjoyed the enormous benefits of being in power, and they certainly didn't want to lose their ruling party status.

Once lost, much power is lost as well.

Not only would they lose out on their own interests, but if the Congress Party came to power, they would likely target them relentlessly.

After all, they know very well how they have treated the opposition over the years.

They can do these things when they are in power, but when others are in power, they will retaliate a thousandfold.

That would be their nightmare.

"And that People's Party, they actually have 60 seats, how is that possible?"

The People's Party is definitely the dark horse of this election. It only had a few seats in the last election, but suddenly it has surged to its current position, becoming the third most popular party.

Such a surge in performance is truly unexpected.

You should know that they had never taken the women of the People's Party seriously before.

This reflects inherent discrimination against women.

Even though politicians claim to respect women, in practice, women are still discriminated against in various ways.

They simply don't believe that a political party dominated by a few women can accomplish anything.

Even with Rodon's support, they didn't take it seriously.

In his view, even if Kanina and her team get a few more seats than in the previous election, it won't exceed ten, which won't have any impact on their People's Party.

But now things are different. Since they don't have a majority of seats, they need the support of other allies.

Based on the previous election, they secured 303 seats, while their allies won a total of 50 seats.

Logically, the number of seats for allies this time should be about the same, around 50.

The problem is that the People's Party's seats have surged, taking up many seats from its allies. This means that if the People's Party were excluded, their total number of allies would definitely not reach 50.

Even if they had 50 seats, with their current 203 seats, they would still have less than 260 seats, which is not enough to form a majority of seats to form a government.

This means that the choice of which side the populist party takes becomes extremely crucial.

Although the People's Party is still considered their ally, everyone knows the truth.

Everyone had some opinions about Rodton becoming the director of the CBI, especially Old Man and his group, who wanted to take control of the CBI.

According to the previous plan, after winning this election, they would target the CBI, marginalize Rodton, and prevent him from entering the CBI's power center.

This means that the civilian party will definitely fall out with our side.

Previously, they wouldn't have cared about the People's Party. If they fell out, so be it. Even if the People's Party sided with the Congress Party, they wouldn't care.

Because in their view, the People's Party's few seats would not affect the outcome at all, and were dispensable to them.

Now, the People's Party's seats are playing a decisive role, so who would dare to say that Rodton should be kicked out of the CBI's power center?
(End of this chapter)