New Delhi, March 19 -- The year 2024 is all about voting. 76 of the 196 countries in the world will be engaged in the national elections. The people will be selecting the leaders who will govern them for the next few years. Nearly four billion people residing in these countries will be voting in the elections of which almost one billion will be in India. Interestingly these four billion do not include China's 1.4 billion who just a few weeks back confirmed their leader in their communist system. Countries like Pakistan and Taiwan have already elected their leaders in the early part of 2024. It is a year that celebrates the festival of democratic expression.

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