Over at Amethi, the capital of the Targetary Republic of India, leaders of several smaller regional parties have come together for a meeting. The agenda is to discuss pre-poll alliances. These parties do not want to be part of the 2 big alliances: NDA (Na..
For as long as history was being written and read , India has been very very very secular and accomodative of all fabrics of spritual realization that people practised and professed. There never was an intolerant India for as long as I can remember. Infac..
Let us split the expectations into two, simple and advanced. Let me start with the simple. The person who will be PM should be gritty, tough and clever. Being well dressed is a bonus , I am yet to see anyone other than the Late Rajeev Gandhi who looked li..
The day has come, in another 2 months time we will be beckoned to bestow our votes to the party, which will be given the mandate to rule us. Its high time you recognise the merit of those who you will vote to power. Its pretty vivid to all of us that neit..
While you vote to elect a representative to the Government (State or Centre) in an election, this time you could encounter a new option in the candidate list on the Electoral Voting Machine as “None of the Above“. The Election Commision has suggested..
Just as the present UPA government completes its term in office shortly, it obvious that it would like to highlight the work done in its term. What I am seeing is that a government that criticized the NDA’s India Shining Campaign now has its own way of..
Be it the RJD-LJP fallout from the UPA in Bihar or the disassociation of BJD from an 11 year alliance with the BJP or for that matter, the formation or the formation of the Third Front; all have one basic statement underlying their activities i.e. to beco..
HyperActiveX - came up with that title on a conversatin thread on FB. And, this was in context of Mr.Advani - the leader of the BJP - who has decided to use the net to reach out to audiences that extensively use the net. (’younger audiences’ :) In ty..
Channels like NDTV have cleverly interwoven election stories in very connected and relevant sequences that make it a delight watching them all day !! I am not joking , I mean it . Take the now infamous Varun Gandhi episode . That was tracked from source t..
Advertising campaigns of some of the political parties this season have become creative this season.The BJP, targeting the youth , has managed to put up an advertisement in the home page of ORKUT!! You can find a picture of Mr. Lal Kishan Advani portraye..
Elections are on the way to come.So much campaigning to attract voters..so many promises..Variety of speeches to attract voters..BUT the question is where are the voters..Illiterate and poor people does not know what to do with their valuable vote so they..
The Great Indian Political Battle – Part 2 Post Independence , The erstwhile kings of India were stripped of all their powers . Replacing the kings were the democratically elected ministers , who wield the real powers in a country. Government of a de..
Welcome to the world’s biggest democratic battlefield and this is Mr. R covering the political battle for you. In another 6 weeks time or so , we shall know the new political equations that would lead India for the next couple of years and shape its..
India is a Hindu Nation and no one can deny that - Mr Mohan Bhagwat made a brilliant start at his new job today as he took over the leadership of RSS. First day’s first utterance got him instant headlines. While many of you might be disgusted at that st..
Well, the latest scion of the famed Nehru-Gandhi family strikes, and how. By shouting that we muslims have dangerous sounding names, that if you see us at night you will get afraid, that he will cut our hands if we (supposedly) strike on our Hindu country..
And this desire of his has set the whole BJP shivering. Shekhawat, who was a senior leader of the saffron party till 2002, when he won the Vice-Presidential elections as the NDA candidate. After the completion of his tenure as VP, he has not joined the BJ..
Naveen Chawla, a 1969 batch IAS officer, belonging to the Delhi & Andaman Nicobar cadre held several important assignments before being appointed Election Commissioner on May 16, 2005. Shocked at the appointment of Naveen Chawla as an Election Commissione..
With the number of political parties increasing manifold, as the mosquitos do in the monsoon, India has now become used to the system of coalition politics wherein no single party gets a majority (any single party can not get it 'coz of the large number o..
According to a survey, around 65% of the population of India is of the age group 20-45. So by this figure, one can easily conclude that India as a whole is a young country. Okay.... India is young. But what about those in power? If you follow Indian po..
This is the second in a series of blog posts, looking at the various individuals who are in the running to be the Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy. Despite India having a multi-party system with over 132 political parties, there are 3 main..
