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People want Abdul Kalam to become President again; -
India Today
If people's choice is taken into consideration, former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam should occupy the Rashtrapati Bhavan once again. For, he emerged more popular than 15 others suggested by India Today-Ipsos poll. The missile man of India polled more votes than the likes of Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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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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PTI and PPP: What went wrong? -
Raza Habib Raja, Pak Tea House
I must admit one thing: I had never expected around two years ago that Imran Khan’s Facebook supporters will actually come out on the polling day and vote. In fact not only they came out but they actually instilled passion and enthusiasm in the entire election campaign. Imran has motivated them and touched the raw visceral nerve of the class which previously has largely been apolitical. His appeal also influenced many of the youngsters from major urban cities who all came out during the campaign filling huge venues like Minar-e-Pakistan.
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Social engineering formula helped Congress win Karnataka elections -
Smita Gupta, Hindu
If the three-way division in the Bharatiya Janata Party vote was clearly the single biggest reason for the Congress’ convincing victory in the recent Karnataka Assembly elections, perhaps the most significant element in the latter’s electoral strategy was “social engineering.” The party, senior Congress functionaries say, taking inspiration from the late Devraj Urs, adopted a formula that shifted the spotlight away...
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Pakistan election: Nawaz Sharif 'set for victory' -
Lyse Doucet, BBC
Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif is celebrating with his supporters, amid early signs that his party will be the largest after parliamentary elections. Media projections based on partial results suggest a big lead for Mr Sharif's Muslim League, and he has already claimed victory. The election should lead to the country's first transition from one elected government to another. The turnout was huge but the poll was marred by violence. In Karachi, the Pakistan Taliban said they planted a bomb which killed 11 people and wounded 40 others.
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The road to 272 -
Minhaz Merchant, Economic Times
The 2014 general election will mark 30 years since a political party won a clear majority of 272 seats on its own in the Lok Sabha. Rajiv Gandhi achieved that for the Congress with over 400 seats in 1984. Since then, in 1989, 1991, 1996 and the four general elections that followed, no party has crossed 272 seats in parliament. For 2014, most parties’ ambitions are modest. The Congress thinks 140 Lok Sabha seats will be enough to stitch together a “secular” UPA-3 coalition. The BJP reckons it needs 180 seats to do the same for NDA-3.
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Pakistan's historic ballot -
Rana Banerji, Times of India
Tomorrow's election will signify a strengthening of the democratic process in Pakistan, with a popu-larly elected government completing its full term for the first time, and a constitutionally prescribed transition taking place through caretaker-supervised polls. Accordingly, 272 out of the 342 seats in Pakistan's National Assembly will be elected under the first-past-the-post system. Of these, 148 are from Punjab, 61 from Sindh, 35 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP — previously North-West Frontier Province)...
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Karnataka results analysis: BJP’s mistake was removing Yeddy from Delhi -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
The real issue thrown up by the Karnataka election results is one of leadership and governance. The Congress won because the BJP could not solve the issue of its state leadership. Let’s be clear: this is not about whether BS Yeddyurappa should have been kept back or if the party was right in removing him. The issue is who decides this? Did the Karnataka BJP legislative party decide this or the BJP High Command sitting in the rarefied atmosphere of Delhi?
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