India elections to hang on small, regional parties

Updated April 14, 2009 11:47:36

On Thursday, India will embark on the world's largest ever democratic voting exercise, with the first of five polls to choose the country's new parliament.

Analysts are predicting another hung parliament. And with both major parties having lost key coalition allies in the last year, the big question is how smaller and regional parties will align themselves.

Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speaker: Ashraf Engineer, associate editor at the Hindustan Times in Mumbai

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