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Choice for Prez could be between 2 A’s, Ansari and Antony -
R Jagannathan, First Post
It speaks much for the latent narrow-mindedness of our political culture that the prime qualification for the job of India’s president is not competence or integrity, but his or her communal identity. So one should not be too surprised if Vice-President Hamid Ansari makes it to the top job since he is a Muslim. Of course, he is a good man, but that is not why he is being chosen. Five years ago, Pratibha Patil was trotted out from the Congress stable not because her CV was right, but because of her triple identity fit: as a Hindu, it would stop tongues wagging about all the top jobs going to minorities...
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Andhra's primacy on the Congress map -
Aditi Phadnis, Business Standard
Amid all the self-congratulatory backslapping in the Congress over the Karnataka electoral triumph, there were some sober voices from Andhra Pradesh - Karnataka's neighbour. They warned the Congress not to be complacent: what had happened in Karnataka to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could happen to the Congress in Andhra Pradesh, where it is in power. In Karnataka, the BJP lost 13.4 per cent of its voters. However, the Congress managed to gain just 2.46 per cent...
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For Iran, a suitable president -
Ramin Jahanbegloo, Indian Express
As the next Iranian presidential election of June 14 draws closer, the Islamic Republic is confronted with a crisis on a multitude of fronts. This includes an economy on the verge of collapse due to the harsh international sanctions, a sharp decline in the value of the Iranian currency, the uncertain outcome of the country's nuclear dossier, intensification of Iran's factional feuding, and regional transformations in the post-Arab Spring Middle East.
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With Modi as leader, BJP will sweep UP in LS polls: LensOnNews survey -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH NARENDRA MODI moving to the forefront of national politics and receiving accolades for every speech and every public appearance that he makes, it’s only a question of time before the BJP announces that it will fight the next Lok Sabha polls under his leadership as its PM candidate. Possibly the announcement will come as early as at the two-day national executive meet at Goa on June 8-9. Against this backdrop, a poll has been conducted by the popular news...
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Three polls, one message: No alternative to Modi for BJP -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
Three opinion polls this week on the national political mood have three simple messages embedded in them – two for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and another for the Congress. The polls – one by AC Nielsen for ABP News, another by C-Voter for Headlines Today, and a third by GFK for CNN-IBN – clearly indicate that the Congress is slipping, and slipping badly, in urban India, and possibly all over the country too.
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Manmohan should be replaced as PM, UPA has lost credibility: Poll -
CNN-IBN
As Congress-led United Progressive Alliance completes four years in office on May 22, what is the mood in urban India? In a 12-city poll conducted by CNN-IBN in age group of 18 years or more, the verdict is emphatic and overwhelmingly against the current regime. The poll reveals that UPA government has lost credibility and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh no longer enjoys confidence of urban India.
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ABP-Neilsen survey: If polls held today, NDA may erase UPA -
Business Standard
If polls were held today, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will get a mere 136 Lok Sabha seats, according to a survey done by ABP News-Nielsen. The main opposition, National Democratic Alliance, is likely to get 206 seats, while others parties will get 167 seats. Neither the UPA nor the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA will get the magic number 272 in the general elections if they were to take place today. Left parties together will get 34 seats. The NDA may try to form the government, but will need 66 more seats for that.
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Reverse gear on electoral reforms -
Jagdeep S Chhokar, Mint
The resignation of Ashwani Kumar as law minister has brought cheer to a group of people who do not have much to do, at least directly, with the coal block allocation controversy. These are people working on electoral reforms. This is because ever since becoming law minister, Kumar had been consistent in his stand that all was well with the electoral system and nothing needed to be fixed. If anything, some things needed to be undone.
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Congress to struggle in Bihar, Maharashtra, Delhi, UP: survey -
Anuja, Mint
If the national elections were held now, the Congress party will not fare well in electorally significant Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi and Maharashtra, a survey by television news channel ABP News and market researcher Nielsen has found. The four states together send 175 parliamentarians to the 543-member Lok Sabha, the lower House of India’s Parliament. The Congress will not increase its tally of 47 seats in these four states if the general election, due in 2014, were to be held now, the survey said.
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Back to the Future in Iran's Election -
Sahar Namazikhah, Reza Marashi, National Interest
As the field of candidates for Iran’s presidential election takes shape, the most intriguing entry into the race is Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. His candidacy is a threat to all other candidates—and more critically, it presents a major challenge to Iran’s most powerful man, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Despite the generational changes that have shaped the Iranian system in recent years, Rafsanjani’s challenge to Khamenei may take this election back to the future.
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BJP needs to get its message right -
Swapan Dasgupta, Pioneer
In his autobiography which, unfortunately, has never received the importance it deserved, former British Prime Minister (a man who never lost an election) Tony Blair made a distinction between “activists” and “normal people”. He was alluding to the tendency of committed political workers who take an active interest in the inner workings of a political party having agendas and priorities that are far removed from everyday concerns of ordinary voters who troop to the polling booth once every four or five years.
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