Pakistan: Tripping on its own feet -
Anirudh Bhattacharyya, Hindustan Times
A United States State Department spokesperson recently remarked that her country has "no favourites" in the Pakistan elections that are due in exactly a week. That's hardly startling - as the US starts pulling up stakes from the Af-Pak region, they will have little at stake in who governs from Islamabad. |
Uttar Pradesh crucial for BJP -
Varghese K George, Hindustan Times
The BJP's campaign for Delhi next year will depend heavily on Uttar Pradesh - a political forecast that actually is not so far-fetched. The BJP now has 115 members in the Lok Sabha. Unless it adds at least 50 more in the next election, it stands no chance of coming to power at the Centre. |
Empower the election commission -
Nripendra Misra, Mail Today
The credit for conducting free and fair elections in the "Great Indian Democracy" goes to the institution of the Election Commission. It is a constitutional body created as per Article 324 of our Constitution. The Founding Fathers had envisaged the necessity for such an institution to safeguard parliamentary democracy in the country. |
Karnataka: Dalits, Muslims keep Congress on the edge -
DK Singh, Indian Express
While Vokkaliga and Lingayat communities dominate the electoral discourse and strategy in Karnataka, it's Dalits and Muslims who are giving sleepless nights to poll strategists of the Congress, the favourite in May 5 elections. As per the party's internal assessment, it is falling short by half-a-dozen seats to reach the magic figure of 113 in the 224-member Vidhan Soudha. |
All downhill for Cong in Uttarakhand -
Sanjay Singh, Indian Express
With all eyes on Karnataka, a crucial poll result in Uttarakhand has quietly gone under the radar. Thirteen months after it came to power in the state, the Congress this week lost control of all its six municipal corporations. It also lost from the Gairsain nagar panchayat, selected as the site for a new Assembly building with great expectations by Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna. |
Coming soon — a third pole in Delhi politics -
Surajit Dasgupta, Pioneer
The avowedly “clean” Aam Aadmi Party is ready with its first list of poll promises for Delhiites. It assures the people a break from drudgery under professional politicians while committed workers routinely impress citizens by taking local authorities to task for their failures. |
NDA to President: check ‘visible drift’ in external affairs -
B Muralidhar Reddy, Hindu
A delegation of the National Democratic Alliance led by the working chairperson, L.K. Advani, has sought the intervention of President Pranab Mukherjee to halt the “visible drift in the management” of the country’s external relations as reflected in the handling of the Sarabjit Singh episode and the Chinese incursions. |
Who Are the Candidates in Pakistan's Election? -
VOANews
On May 11, Pakistan will hold national elections to to elect members of the country’s national assembly and four provincial assemblies. After decades of military rule and political instability, this will be the first time in the country's history that a civilian government will transfer power through the ballot box. Here are brief profiles of several candidates and influential politicians representing several political parties in the upcoming election. |
Eye on Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi calls for a Congress-free India -
Johnson TA, Indian Express
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi used the second and final leg of his campaign for the BJP for the May 5 Assembly polls to set the tone for the coming Lok Sabha elections by launching an attack on the Congress and UPA on a gamut of national issues, including foreign policy in the light of the death of Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan and Chinese incursions. |
Do richer candidates do better? -
Karthik Shashidhar, Mint
Ever since the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) published its report on assets of candidates for the forthcoming assembly elections in Karnataka, there has been significant outrage in the mainstream media about the significant increase in declared assets of candidates who had also contested in 2008. |
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