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'Prevent Voting' - new criminal political strategy

15 April 2009 - 6:26pm — Vasanthkumar My...

Candidates are finding dubious means to ensure victory in elections - last assembly elections - a sure shot candidate defeated - another candidate who had no chance at all won with huge margin - How were these managed?

No polls for Sanjay Dutt

31 March 2009 - 3:49pm — mcadambi
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This is a proud day for India! Jai Bharat! No to criminals in politics!

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/great-ruling/441255/ 

The Political Compass - assess your political leanings

24 March 2009 - 4:35pm — s_yajaman

Found this on the net.  http://www.politicalcompass.org/index  It assesses your political leanings along two axes - economic and social. 

Economic leanings form the X-axis going from collectivism (Pol-pot)  to neo-liberalism (Friedman).  Social leanings go from Libertarian to Authoritarianism. 

Do you vote for the person (candidate), or the party (ideology) ?

22 March 2009 - 10:27am
Candidate
51% (46 votes)
Party
49% (45 votes)
Total votes: 91

CPI(M) manifesto - misleading facts and too broad?

22 March 2009 - 9:48am — silkboard

Writing this to point out what fact based means, this post is inspired by TN Ninnan's editorial in Saturday's Business Standard. He picked out a few statements from CPI-M's new election website, and argued that a few of them are not supported by facts, or even observations. Mr Ninnan has picked out certain statements from CPI-M manifesto (here), and taken objections to them:

Is this the answer in india?

20 March 2009 - 8:11am — jennypinto

The Hindu of March 19 had an interesting article : A Gandhian idea gets a British makeover by Hasan Suroor the gist of his story about a new campaign in the UK is "A high-profile campaign, funded by a flamboyant millionaire Tory donor Sir Paul Judge was launched this week with the grand aim of reducing the dominance of the three main organised political parties (Labour, the Conservative

Bribed voters could get 6 months in jail?

16 March 2009 - 7:50am — silkboard

Read with interest in a newspaper this morning that Mr P Manivannan, who is the Returning Officer for Mysore is talking about tough measures to monitor misuse of Liquor and Money in Lok Sabha Elections. See this Biz Standard story: DC strict on curbing Malparctices.

Votebank Ads?

26 February 2009 - 10:50am — Ravi_D

Have you noticed those huge full-page / half-page ads in the news papers the last few days?

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