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	Indian general elections, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Election Commission of India is responsible for deciding the dates and conducting elections according to constitutional provisions.
		In these elections, compared to the all the Lok Sabha elections of the 1990's, the battle was more of a head-to-head contest in the sense that there was no viable third front alternative.
		The BJP fought the elections as part of the NDA, although some of its seat-sharing agreements were made with strong regional parties outside of the NDA such as Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_general_elections,_2004 (1953 words)

	Indian election process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Due to the immense logistics involved, national elections are held in phases over a month.
		Even though India is a democracy and any citizen can run for election, it is an expensive process, much like the US presidential elections in terms of the need for an enormous amount of resources.
		After the different phases of the elections are complete, a day is set to count the votes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Elections (537 words)

	IPRI :: Islamabad Policy Research Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Elections to the Vidhan Sabhas are carried out in the same manner as for the Lok Sabha election, with the states and union territories divided into single-member constituencies, and the first-past-the-post electoral system used.
		The Election Commission is responsible for the conduct of elections to parliament and state legislatures and to the offices of the President and Vice-President.
		During the election campaign the political parties and contesting candidates are expected to abide by a Model Code of Conduct evolved by the Election Commission on the basis of a consensus among political parties.
	ipripak.org /factfiles/ff50.shtml (9006 words)

	ipedia.com: Indian general elections, 2004 Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The BJP fought the elections as part of the NDA while the Congress, for the first time, had forged an alliance with smaller like-minded parties at the Centre.
		Though pre-poll predictons were for an overwhelming majority for the BJP, the exit polls (immediately after the elections and before the counting began) predicted a hung parliament.
		Before the winning the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan BJP ruled only in three states (Goa, Gujrat, and Jharkhand) and had lost most state elections to Congress.
	www.ipedia.com /indian_general_elections__2004.html (1604 words)

	ZNet Commentary: The Indian Elections 2004: The Vote Against Corporate Globalisation
		The BJP Government which had won elections on the anti-globalisation and Swadeshi plank has made a rapid turn around and announced that Swadeshi is not anti-globalisation.
		The election of 2004 in India was fought not on the BJP's Hindutva agenda of minority baiting, but on the globalisation agenda of "India Shining" through mega-infrastructure projects such as super highways and river diversions.
		Indianness was being defined as absence of greed and self-seeking behaviour.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2004-06/19shiva.cfm (1412 words)

	CNN.com - Threat of violence looms ahead of Indian elections - May 9, 2001
		Election Commissioner M.S. Gill said he had called on the governments of several states to provide Assam and West Bengal with the "maximum ever" armed police presence.
		For voters, weary of elections after a run of political instability since 1996 and cynical about the sincerity of their politicians, there is not much to choose among the parties.
		The elections could revive the sagging fortunes of the Congress party, which with its allies is tipped to be on the winning side in at least three of the four key states.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/09/india.elections (553 words)

	CNN.com - Indian elections expected in April - Feb. 6, 2004
		Elections to the 543 seats of the Indian parliament's Lower House are a mammoth task.
		During the last elections held in October 1999, thousands of contestants from hundreds political parties were on the ballot.
		Elections must be held at least every five years, and the estimated cost of organizing them is $200 million.
	cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/06/india.elections (373 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		The BJP was forced to adopt the coalition concept after the 1996 elections when present Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee failed to prove his party's majority in parliament and had to give up the claim to form the government, despite making a desperate 13-day attempt.
		For instance, the coalition governments in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar that were formed in the past had few objectives and little unity or leadership; most of the partners were too busy back-biting each other, which eventually led to their downfall.
		As a contrast, although India as a country was already extremely IT-savvy in the previous election of 1999, the use of technology by political parties was limited to just three TV channels that were used to unleash their propaganda.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FD10Df03.html (1091 words)

	Congress Emerges Victorious in Indian Elections Upset
		As it turned out, the message of the Indian elections is that, in “the world’s largest democracy,” urban glitter was defeated by the drudgery that remains widespread in rural India.
		Some Indian Muslims who joined the BJP in hopes of becoming part of the winning side today look like political opportunists who lost their bet.
		The main lesson to be learned from the Indian election results is that, regardless of the system’s weaknesses, periodic elections do create an increasingly ingrained political culture and will produce positive results over time.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/July_Aug_2004/0407036.html (1960 words)

	The 1999 Indian Parliamentary Elections and the New BJP-led Coalition Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Market reforms were not a significant issue in the elections, reflecting the near consensus among political parties in support of economic liberalization.
		The election results brought Vajpayee's National Democratic Alliance a majority in India's 545-seat Lok Sabha, with 299 of the 537 seats contested and 41% of the vote.
		Indian newspapers and magazines carried extensive coverage of the campaign and the election results, with Frontline (biweekly from Chennai) providing particularly good data and analyses.
	inic.utexas.edu /asnic/hardgrave/Elections1999.html (1249 words)

	Indian elections produce unstable parliament
		The traditional party of the Indian ruling classes, the Congress, was able to avert an ignominious performance with the entry of Rajiv Gandhi's widow, Sonia Gandhi, into its campaign.
		With these elections, the rules of the game were unevenly amended in favour of the ruling-class parties.
		The election rules have been reshaped to keep out younger and weaker parties that truly represent the socially and economically weaker sections of society.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1998/311/311p19.htm (1484 words)

	Press Releases :13th Lok Sabha Elections info available on-line at www.indian-elections.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The web-site, compiled and managed by a panel of experts is predestined to be the most comprehensive site on elections and will cover a range of topics including news, views, previews and reviews on the last election of the millenium.
		Another star attraction will be the Discussion Board on Elections which offers visitors to share and discuss matters regarding their areas of interests, experiences, etc. This open forum provides a platform for people from across the globe to debate on the on the issues governing the election and voice their opinion.
		Indian political history is to be written on the Net, and the opportunity for brands is immense through such a site.
	www.indiamart.com /press-section/releases/indian-elections.html (540 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		The election campaigns have been, for the most part, unremarkable as far as substantive political issues are concerned.
		Daniel Lak, the BBC correspondent in Delhi, argues that the only real election issue is whether or not the instability that has characterized much of Indian politics since the 1980s will be brought to an end with the election of a sufficiently strong government.
		This paper discusses the shift in voting patterns of Scheduled Castes (SCs) since the 1996 elections, and attempts to explain why SC voters, once "captive follower[s] of the Congress," are now not committed to any particular party, but instead trying to create a distinctive political niche through the electoral process.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=1661 (1126 words)

	Countercurrents.org India Elections 2004-Home Page
		Although the BJP led coalition was comprehensively beaten in the recent elections one should not look away from certain important factors.
		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.
		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)

	Bhartiya Janta Party,BJP,India
		Throughout the Congress regime it remained one of the major opposition parties, guiding the rout to be taken by the opposition.
		During 1986 elections it made it's presence felt in a string way and after that the popularity has been rising by the day.
		In 1996 it emerged as a single largest party in a hung parliament and then in 1999 came into power as a part of NDA Alliance under the leadership of Shri.
	www.indian-elections.com /partyprofiles/bharatiya-janta-party.html (309 words)

	Hard-line pro-Hindu rhetoric colors Indian elections \| csmonitor.com
		At the time, most Indian politicians decried it - and the subsequent riots that claimed the lives of 6,000 nationwide - as acts of Hindu chauvinism.
		But since independence, Indian politicians have used these communal divides as a form of power, unifying members of a common religion, race, or caste against a perceived enemy within the country.
		In a recent interview with the Delhi-based Asian Age newspaper, Modi said this election is a choice between nationalism and terrorism - and denied that the Hindu riots of last spring could be equated with terrorism.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1212/p07s02-wosc.htm (906 words)

	Hindu nationalists make gains in Indian elections / Ruling party deals major setback to Congress Party
		The results, seen as a prelude to general elections to be held next year, were an unexpected boon for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
		Indian voters are strongly anti-incumbent, so in one sense the turning out of the Congress Party was no surprise.
		"This is the first election you've seen in India that is a quality-of- life election," said Shekhar Gupta, the editor of the Indian Express newspaper.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/05/MNGT93GV3P1.DTL (651 words)

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		Indian Elections: Lok Sabha Election and State Assembly Elections.
		Schedule for General Election to the Legislative Assemblies 2005
	www.indian-elections.com (598 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Stories: 'APHC (Ansari) not to participate in Indian elections'
		Replying to a question, he said our policy is very clear that Indian elections are not the solution of Kashmir dispute.
		He said, there is no letup in Indian suppressive activities in occupied Kashmir and this ground situation should be changed by Indian government, he added.
		We have informed Indian deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani during the dialogue that without the resolution of Kashmir issue, peace would not prevail in the entire South Asian Region, he added.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/03/31/top7.htm (400 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Gandhi triumphs in Indian election
		He called the elections early amid an economic boom and Pakistan peace moves but failed to impress poorer voters.
		The BBC's Adam Mynott in Delhi says it is the huge unspoken mass of Indians, largely ignored by the BJP and who have no electricity, poor sanitation and filthy water who have spoken.
		In an address on national television Mr Vajpayee said he accepted the verdict and said it was a demonstration of India's strong democractic roots.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3712201.stm (810 words)

	CNN.com - Violence strikes as Indian elections begin - May 10, 2001
		Analysts see the legislative assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal and the federally administered territory of Pondicherry as a test of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi's ability to woo voters back to her troubled Congress opposition party.
		Vajpayee has rejected suggestions that the polls are a virtual referendum on his coalition government, which was knocked sideways in March by an arms bribery scandal.
		It was the first time that the independent Election Commission had made wide use of electronic voting machines, though they were in place in only four constituencies in Assam.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/10/india.elections.01 (780 words)

	GN Online: Talks to continue after Indian elections
		Pakistan and India yesterday mapped out a timetable for substantive talks that would begin after India's general elections in April, pledging to resolve all bilateral issues, including the dispute over Kashmir, to the satisfaction of both.
		Khokar released the text of a joint statement laying out a schedule for a series of meeting at various levels that would culminate into a meeting between foreign ministers of the two countries in August to review the overall progress.
		The eight-point agenda and modalities for the dialogue were out during joint secretary-level talks on Monday and Tuesday, marking the return of the arch-rivals, which came close to a fourth war in 2002, to the negotiating table.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=111387 (670 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		Perhaps the first time that technology was used in such a large scale to influence voters was during the Gujarat elections in December 2002, when its principal proponent, Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who belongs to the BJP, won the elections.
		The BJP again made full-use of its tech expertise during elections in the crucial states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh that were held on December 1, 2003.
		In Delhi, the strategies of the BJP and Congress were similar as the incumbent, Congress Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, is known for her proclivity toward technology.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FD08Df04.html (1062 words)

	RunOfTheMillBlog : EVMs and Indian Elections
		This is one of the reasons (apart from security) as to why the election was conducted over a period of three weeks.
		The cool thing about this election is this: If EVMs work for India, it should work for every democratic country for conducting polls (and it will work for china too, if and when china becomes democratic.) When it comes to polls, India should be the benchmark, just by its sheer size and the population.
		I dont know how many of you are aware, but when SA became republic, Indian Election officials were called in to help them set up a system...
	blogs.msdn.com /ramkoth/archive/2004/05/31/144842.aspx (704 words)

	State Elections in India 2005 \| Indian Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This election gains significance, perhaps because it is seen as the first fight after UPA emerged as a major coalition against the BJP-led NDA.
		The parliamentary elections held last year (2004) threw up major surprises and shocking defeats, while the icing on the cake was the action that was witnessed when Sonia Gandhi turned down the offer to head the world's largest democracy.
		Will the election in these three States throw up surprises, or will it be a vote on UPA's performance or will it just be another election that works against the incumbent Governments, only time can tell.
	news.indiainfo.com /spotlight/elections/stateelections/2005 (4031 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of ...
		Following the win, Gandhi became the target of a campaign led by the BJP to criticize her foreign origins and it has been reported that her son and daughter were against their mother taking up the position for safety reasons.
		If you see what has happened after the elections, after the people of India made it clear that their mandate was against communalism, their mandate was against economic reforms.
		We have also gotten these reports of some Indian workers who were working for a western contractor in Iraq, who alleged that they were kept there against their will, hardly being paid.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/05/19/1449239 (2383 words)

	Election Trivia,Interesting Facts About Indian Elections,Election Day Trivia,Know About Elections
		The latest to join, N Gopalaswamy, is an IAS officer from the Gujarat cadre and, therefore, speaks Gujarati.
		" The highest voting percentage in any general elections has been 62.2 per cent in 1957, the lowest was in 1967 when only 33 per cent cast their vote.
		In the last general elections in 1999, 59.99 per cent had cast their votes!"
	www.dinesh.hostultra.com /election-trivia (574 words)

	Government - Politics
		Election Commission of India - includes information on the parties and candidates, press releases, and poll updates.
		Election Review - Indian Elections 1999 - Indian parliamentary election results and latest political developments.
		National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS) - social change resource centre that aims to strengthen people centered public advocacy, so as to empower people who are struggling for the creation of a ju...
	www.91india.com /8/87.cfm (497 words)

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