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	Elections in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It involves a number of step-by-step processes from announcement of election dates by the Election Commission of India, which brings into force the 'model code of conduct' for the political parties, to the announcement of results and submission of the list of successful candidates to the executive head of the state or the centre.
		The President of India is elected for a five year term by an electoral college consisting of members of federal and state legislatures.
		Electoral Process in India takes at least a month for state assembly elections with the duration increasing further for the General Elections, as the sheer size of the electorate and immense logistics require the general election be conducted in a number of phases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_India (1429 words)

	Pakistani Kashmir elections a farce: India
		India reiterated Monday that the elections scheduled to be held in Pakistan-administered Kashmir next month would be a farce, like in the past, due to the stiff conditions laid down on candidates.
		"This confirms that the elections in the so-called 'AJK', scheduled to be held on July 11, will be a replay of the earlier exercises in which the people did not have the freedom to vote for political parties and candidates of their choice.
		"Besides, the forthcoming elections in the so-called 'AJK' underline the absence of any form of representative government in the so-called 'Northern Areas' of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, the residents of which are deprived of even their basic right to vote, as elections have never been held there," the spokesman pointed out.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060612/360950.html (259 words)

	Asia Society: Publications - The Twelfth Election of India's Lok Sabha
		India's internal market was considered by the first generation of leaders and economists to be large enough to make international trade virtually irrelevant, and central planning was deemed superior to reliance on markets for economic development.
		India is looking for what may be called a mature friendship--a friendship that emphasizes, even celebrates, what is common between the two nations, but can also survive their differences.
		India's political institutions may have reached a level of maturity at which even a 13-party government can function for a year and a half, but that is a mixed blessing.
	www.asiasociety.org /publications/update_indian_elections.html (9873 words)

	Indian Elections \| Elections 2005 \| State Elections in India
		Elections in India seize everybody's imagination, locals as well as outsiders, because of the sheer excitement they offer.
		On a serious note, Indian Elections have definitely turned in the right direction, with the Election Commission of India increasingly becoming pro-active resulting in the conduction of "organised elections", which in normal course would have been close to being a sham (as was seen in a few notorious States).
		Elections were held for the Parliament along with Assembly elections for four States, viz; Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa and Sikkim.
	news.indiainfo.com /spotlight/elections (191 words)

	India's Identity Crisis
		Elections have not been held in the state lately, and the state is governed through Presidential rule.
		Eighty-three percent of India’s population is Hindu, while 12 percent of the population is Muslim.
		Despite the substantial presence of minorities, the BJP believes that since India is the only country with a majority Hindu population, it ought to be a Hindu state.
	www.yale.edu /iforum/Spring1996/IndiaSpr96.htm (1286 words)

	India's Elections: The Dawn of a New Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Italian born Sonia Gandhi is expected to be invited as the law requires by President Abdul Kalam to form the new government, her party having won the single highest number of the popular vote.
		In India's democracy, majority opinion matters: people elect their leaders unlike certain other democracies where minorities buy their way to power, or cases where six or seven chosen judges do the selection even by a majority of just one vote.
		But while the upper classes participated in a "Shining India", the masses of the population India is a land of villages were left further behind.
	www.caribvoice.org /Opinions/KP/india'selections.html (501 words)

	India hails Afghan elections- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday hailed the Presidential elections in Afghanistan as a "historic milestone" in its journey towards peace, stability and prosperity and said New Delhi was looking forward to strengthening traditional ties with it.
		They had "demonstrated through this process their support for the establishment and consolidation of democracy and conclusively rejected the ideology as well as the sponsors of obscurantism, hate and violence," the spokesman said.
		He said India was looking forward to working closely with Afghanistan to further strengthen the traditional ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/883936.cms (231 words)

	The Hindu : Reinventing India for elections
		Elections need issue-based campaigns on the things that matter to the least advantaged; and not the gimmicks of parties falling over one another to capture power.
		The calculated rise of the BJP was on a fundamentalist Hindu platform to gain dividends in State elections in principally north India and Maharastra, and in national elections.
		India's elections need issue-based campaigns on the things that matter especially to the least advantaged; and not the gimmicks of parties out to capture power.
	www.hindu.com /2004/02/21/stories/2004022101401000.htm (1365 words)

	CNN - Pivotal Elections: India
		India's prime minister is appointed by India's president after the election.
		India's current prime minister and leader of the Indian National Congress, the party of Nehru and the Gandhis which has lead the government for 40 of the last 44 years.
		India's Communists support public sector industries but are not opposed to private investment in limited areas.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/pivotal.elections/1996/india/index2.html (802 words)

	Politics of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to its constitution, India is a "sovereign socialist secular democratic republic;" the largest state with a democratically-elected government.
		Like the United States, India has a federal form of government, however, the central government in India has greater power in relation to its states, and its central government is patterned after the British parliamentary system.
		India's bicameral parliament (also known as the Sansad) consists of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_India (1693 words)

	Countercurrents.org India Elections 2004-Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The elections have seen the rout of the BJP from the political arena.The monster of communalism still stalks Indian society and has the potential to catapult its practitioners to power.
		Elections 2004 are going to be a defining moment for Indian democracy.
		Despite the recent victories in the assembly elections one can say that in electoral terms the BJP remains just where it was in the last round of national elections.
	www.countercurrents.org /indiaelections.htm (1770 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Forum Title -- The Indian Elections -- March 20, 1998
		In a sprawling election that spanned three weeks and drew over 300,000,000 voters, the BJP won the highest number of seats-- 178-- but still fell almost 100 seats short of a majority.
		For the first time, India's lower house of parliament will be guided by the BJP who support "Hindutva," a philosophy which embraces India as a Hindu country.
		Throughout this year's elections, the BJP has done its best to distance itself from more extreme interpretations of hindutva, toning down its anti-Muslim rhetoric and selecting a party moderate to become the next prime minister.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/march98/india_3-20.html (714 words)

	India debunks sham elections in Pakistani Kashmir - India News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		India debunks sham elections in Pakistani Kashmir - India News
		New Delhi - India Wednesday denounced 'the lack of credibility' in elections held in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Islamabad's claims of self-governance in the Northern Areas.
		Ridiculing the elections that it said gave the lie to Islamabad's claims of autonomy and self-governance in an area India claims is part of Jammu and Kashmir, the spokesperson went on to detail instances of omissions and commissions in the elections held Tuesday.
	www.indiaenews.com /india/20060712/14636.htm (529 words)

	Ruling party in India seen seeking elections - The Boston Globe
		HYDERABAD -- India's ruling party is expected to ask Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to dissolve Parliament and call for national elections as soon as March, a party spokesman said yesterday.
		Vajpayee, who is enjoying a surge in popularity, already was in campaign mode yesterday, attacking main political rival Sonia Gandhi of the Congress Party before thousands of supporters in the southern city of Hyderabad.
		India holds national elections at least every five years.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/01/12/ruling_party_in_india_seen_seeking_elections (663 words)

	India Elections - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, ...
		At least once every five years, India's Election Commission supervises one of the largest, most complex exercises of collective action in the world.
		India's elections in the 1990s involve overseeing an electorate of about 521 million voters who travel to nearly 600,000 polling stations to chose from some 8,950 candidates representing roughly 162 parties.
		India's party system is in the throes of historic change.
	photius.com /countries/india/government/india_government_elections.html (312 words)

	Elections in India: The Stupid Manifesto at (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For people in earlier societies, the only form of changing their destinies was a violent revolution and voting in a booth definitely does not compare to the way a revolution can appeal and stir the raw human emotions.
		Just like the US elections affect the entire world because the US wields so much power in the world, elections in West Bengal affect the entire country because that’s where the communists get their power to be an irritant for the entire country.
		India is on its way to great economic might but despite all the hype and hoopla, the journey has only just begun and the leftists are keen to throw the baby out the baby with the bath water.
	www.arthshastra.com /archive/elections-in-india-the-stupid-manifesto (435 words)

	India Cosmopolis
		In India, inflation is at an all-time low and farmers could bring in a record harvest, although the natural catastrophes and their subsequent costs may have destroyed part of that success.
		During the election campaign, the Congress Party leaders did not clearly specify what type of coalition they were looking for.
		Among the topics Max-Jean Zins touches: AIDS in India, the castes, the rural population, the linguistic diversity, Islam, the Congress Party, the Gandhi-Nehru-dynasty, etc.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo1/india.htm (1121 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If so, it may come as a bolt from the blue for the prime minister and the Congress president that Antony is no push-over in the defence ministry, one of the few ministries in the Union government which needs a minister with a mind of his own.
		Kasuri’s statements in the last few days reflect a belief in Pakistan that, with elections in Uttar Pradesh not too far off, Pakistan can be converted into a domestic political issue — at least beneath the surface — in some state elections in India.
		What India is facing today is a rerun of what Russia was up against after the collapse of the USSR: a major objective of the West then was to discredit, cripple and eliminate Russia’s — and the Warsaw Pact’s — considerable ability to produce world-class weaponry.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1061101/asp/opinion/story_6940281.asp (1115 words)

	India describes POK elections as lacking in credibility - Irna
		Elections have never been held in those areas and its residents have never enjoyed the basic political right to vote, said Navtej Sarna, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs in a press briefing here Wednesday evening.
		Besides disqualifying all political parties and candidates who failed to meet the condition of declaring their allegiance to the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan from contesting the elections, Pakistan had also not allowed international observers to monitor the election process, the spokesman said.
		The elections could therefore, neither be called free and fair nor an exercise in self-governance, he added.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/line-20/0607135018124957.htm (437 words)

	CTV.ca \| India concludes parliamentary elections
		Vajpayee's coalition, led by his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, went into the elections bolstered by a booming economy, moves toward peace with rival Pakistan and pledges to further modernize India.
		Forty-eight people died in election violence, less than half the deaths that occurred in the last elections in 1999.
		That would put the NDA far short of the 272 seats needed for a majority of the 543 elected seats in the lower house, called the Lok Sabha, and even further short of its 1999 showing of 305 seats, when the alliance consisted of 22 parties.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20040511/india_elections_040511 (625 words)

	Elections in India - Sify.com
		India is the largest democracy in the world.
		Elections to Parliament and State legislatures are held under the supervision, direction and control of a constitutional body - the Election Commission of India.
		Elections to local bodies - Panchayats and Nagarpalikas - are the responsibility of the State Election Commission.
	sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13283858 (501 words)

	CNN.com - Mega vote begins in India - Apr 20, 2004
		NEW DELHI, India -- India's marathon general election is under way, with as many as 650 million people set to cast their votes over the next three weeks.
		Tens of thousands of election officials backed by police and soldiers opened polling stations across India on Tuesday for the first phase of the elections in the world's biggest democracy.
		Meanwhile, Muslim militants in Kashmir and leftist guerrillas in the impoverished eastern and southern parts of the country have urged people to stay away from the election, saying it was not a solution to their grievances.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/19/india.poll/index.html (630 words)

	CNN - Pivotal Elections: India
		All but a few of the 543 parliamentary seats were determined after voting in the third phase of India's multi-stage general elections came to a close May 7.
		India's political future in doubt as Rao resigns - May 10, 1996
		India election generally peaceful - May 7, 1996
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/pivotal.elections/1996/india/index.html (384 words)

	INDIA: parliamentary elections Lok Sabha, 1989
		Elections were held for 525 seats in the Lok Sabha on the normal expiry of the members’ term of office.
		The election dates were announced on 17 October 1989.
		Gandhi stressed that the unity of India was the biggest issue for his party, warning that the country would be unstable under opposition rule.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2145_89.htm (414 words)

	India welcomes elections in Iraq
		Welcoming the elections in Iraq as an important development in its transition to full sovereignty, India on Friday hoped that peace and political stability would soon be established in that country and expressed its readiness to cooperate in reconstruction efforts.
		"The elections held in Iraq on December 15 represent a significant step forward in the Iraqi political process," the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement in New Delhi.
		The ministry said it was noteworthy that all sections of the Iraqi population participated in this election and it would lead to a more inclusive and broad-based council of representatives.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/dec/17iraq.htm (172 words)

	British Elections Any Lesson for India? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In India, the third party coalition was issuing conditional support in 2004 to a minority government with threats of “barking and biting” by its leading cadres, which wiped off the savings of thousands of small investors as the stock markets collapsed.
		In India, leaders continue for generations- transition processes are usually undemocratic and arbitrary, not to mention to ceaseless acrimonious bickering for power.
		India being a federal country is no excuse for national issues to be rejected- even the 2004 Presidential elections in the United States showed how opinionated the country was over Iraq.
	www.saag.org /\papers14\paper1385.html (1954 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| From Our Own Correspondent \| India drama reveals a true Gandhi
		It was a triumph for their leader, Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, particularly as she had been mercilessly attacked during the campaign by her opponents because of her foreign origin.
		Wax seals on the locks of the strong-room at the election counting office in Delhi had been broken, the key had been turned in the padlock, and a dozen election officials sweating in 100-plus degree temperatures had heaved the electronic voting machines onto tables in the heavily guarded counting arena.
		Sonia Gandhi had remained calm and resolute and she had won the election in the face of this vitriol.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3735511.stm (952 words)

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