Page 79-96: "The Fourth Morning"

Intro: This chapter is called "The Fourth Morning" because of Balram's heard a radio show about Fidel Castro, Cuba's communist leader, and he started writing afterwards.
Now i will tell you about what happens on the named pages.


Summary:
Balram starts telling today with a little flashback: It's election time at his former hometown Laxmangarh.
The opponent parties, the Great Socialist's party, the All India Socialists Front (also called Leninist Faction, a party by Laxmangarh's landowners) and some others compete against each other. They try to get votes by posters and people on trucks, shouting their slogans with megaphones. A government-member comes to the town to count people beeing able to vote. Balram don't knows his age and the man determined his age to be 18 (as he does with every boy so their vote can be counted). On the election-day, just one man goes to the booth to vote, but he is beaten up till death and the commissioner announces, that everybody votes for the Great Solicist's party (which made a deal with the landowner's, the Stork's now the president of the Laxmangarh branch of this party). The explanation for that ist the corrupt system in India. The people don't go out to vote, but their votes will be selected by the people with the most influence ("Jungle law replaced zoo law"), if you try to vote despite, you will get killed.

Slide-in: Is the Great Socialist a real person?
I don't think so. I searched for a solution at the internet and the best answer i found is "(The Great Socialist is probably) ...a product of various Indian politicians with dubious moral quality."

Back to the main story: Balram's working for the Stork.
The Great Socialist visits the Stork's home and they're talking about a deal. Balram couldn't find out, what exactly they are talking about but afterwards, he hears about Mr. Ashoks plans leaving Dhanbad and going to Delhi. Only one driver can be taken to Delhi and there would be more wage. Balram finds out, that Ram Persad is a Muslim and because of the Stork's family hates Muslims, Balram has something to set him under pressure and finally gets this job.
The part ends with Balram driving Mr. Ashok, Pinky Madam and Mukesh to Delhi. They passed a lot of these buses, the workers from the countryside use to get to the cities trying to earn some money before the rains (see link).


Links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_India#Monsoon (A text about the monsoon ("the rains"))