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Let the numbers do the talking

Numbers are bi-polar. They hide as much as they reveal. Some Observations here.  Numbers are from  http://eci.nic.in/ . (Data as of May 17th 9:00 AM IST) Total Registered Voters  : 81,45,91,184  (Nearly the entire population of US (32+ Cr), Pakistan (18+ cr), Nigeria (17+ cr) , Japan(12+ cr) put together) Total Votes                  : 54,07,25,627  (66.38%) (Nearly the entire population of brazil, Russia, Mexico and Germany put together) Rest                            : 27,38,65,557   ( Where were you all.. Including me..!!!!) AAP Votes                    : 1,13,23,443  (2.0% Vote share) (Remember BJP was formed in the 50's, grown in the 70's, won just 2 seats in the 84    elections. The 30 years of that era can be equivalent to 3 years of this era with all the communication channels and media. So not bad factually for an 18 month old party.) AAP Votes in TN :          : 2,03,151 / 4,05,78,699  (~0.5% Vote Share) (Seriously a better