Back ১৯৯৮ৰ ভাৰতৰ সাধাৰণ নিৰ্বাচন Assamese ভারতের সাধারণ নির্বাচন, ১৯৯৮ Bengali/Bangla Parlamentswahl in Indien 1998 German Elecciones generales de India de 1998 Spanish Élections législatives indiennes de 1998 French הבחירות ללוק סבהה (1998) HE भारतीय आम चुनाव, 1998 Hindi 1998年インド総選挙 Japanese 1998 ਭਾਰਤ ਦੀਆਂ ਆਮ ਚੋਣਾਂ Punjabi Parlamentsvalet i Indien 1998 Swedish
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543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in India on 16, 22 and 28 February 1998 to elect the members of the twelfth Lok Sabha. The elections were held three years ahead of schedule after the government led by Inder Kumar Gujral collapsed when the Indian National Congress (INC) withdrew its support in November 1997.[1]
The result was another hung parliament, with no party or alliance able to muster a majority. However, Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Janata Party was able to form a coalition government led by the National Democratic Alliance with the support of the Telugu Desam Party. He was sworn in as Prime Minister with support from 272 of 543 MPs. However, his government collapsed on 17 April 1999 when the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam withdrew their support, after Vajpayee refused to meet the demands of its leaders J. Jayalalithaa, namely halting the case against her disproportionate assets and the sacking of the Tamil Nadu government led by her bete-noire M. Karunanidhi.[2] This led to fresh elections in 1999.[3]
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