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Modi, Amit Shah, Varun Gandhi: BJP now has a poll strategy -
Sanjay Singh, FirstPost
Narendra Modi’s importance to the BJP has finally got an official stamp. He has made a comeback in the party’s highest decision making body, Parliamentary Board and another important body in an election year, Central Election Committee. His close confidante Amit Shah has been made general Secretary and is expected to be given important trouble shooting assignments to signify that he could be a key back room strategist for the party in preparing for the 2014 Parliamentary elections.
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It’s advantage Nawaz in Pakistan -
Imtiaz Ahmad, Hindustan Times
As Pakistan’s polls approach in May, there is still no clear favourite emerging as to who will form the next government. Different polls have given both the incumbent Pakistan People’s Party and Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N party a chance at forming the next government. A poll by the Heinrich Boll Foundation gave the PPP an edge based on ethnic voting trends and household income levels. However this reading now seems to changing as a recent poll by PILDAT, an Islamabad-based electoral watch...
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Netaji’s new politics -
Subodh Ghildiyal, Times of India
Imagine Barack Obama rising to the rostrum at a packed Democratic convention and waxing eloquent about Bush Junior, calling him a better administrator than Bill Clinton and even heeding his advice on what's wrong with the Democratic regime. Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's high praise for the BJP's LK Advani (and his brother Ram Gopal Yadav's eulogy for Atal Behari Vajpayee) earlier this month has left analysts scratching their heads.
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Pakistan's election roller coaster -
Karamatullah K Ghori, NewIndianExpress
Pakistan is in the election mode. Nation-wide polls are slated for May 11, which means six weeks of hectic election fever gripping the land, starting from now.Pakistan’s tryst with democracy has a tragic history. Concomitant to it, its tale of elections reads like a roller-coaster ride, with more downs than ups written into the script. Pakistan’s truck with the election process has stayed locked with its tortured and crooked history of governance.
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Nitish plays the markets -
Aditi Phadnis, Business Standard
Of all politics, it is the keep-all-options-open politics that is the hardest to decode. For those engaged in it, it is akin to having all your savings in equities: if you sell at the right time, you can reap enormous benefits. But what is the right time? And if you buy at the wrong time, you can lose what capital you have. Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar is not known to be a risk-taker, but those who know him say he's playing a risky game. He's keeping all his options open.
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Countdown to 2014 – or 2013? -
Minhaz Merchant, Times of India
The UPA government, adrift at the centre, would like to advance the 2014 Lok Sabha election to October-November 2013. That would serve three purposes. One, avoid the electoral blowback of four likely successive state assembly defeats in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi. Two, give the BJP less time to sort out its Narendra Modi-as-PM-candidate dilemma. And three, nip Mulayam Singh Yadav's Third Front idea in the bud.
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Manoeuvres and rallies as Pakistan's election campaign heats up -
Samira Shackle, New Statesman
Pakistan has finally set an election date. If all goes according to plan – which is far from certain in a country which has never before seen a democratic transition from one elected government to another – the polls will take place on 11 May. And the political parties are not wasting any time. This Saturday, Imran Khan held a “jalsa”, or rally, aimed at demonstrating that he can still summon the numbers.
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Free rice, free cow, free TV, free mobile: The next coalition chaos is nigh -
T J S George, NewIndianExpress
Election bells are ringing and politicians have started running around like plucked chicken. But they will triumph again because a hung Parliament will see horse-traders, bargain-hunters, blackmailers and moneybags putting together another coalition as pathetic as the present one. It might take some more time before an Indian Spring saves us from the Plundering Class and gives democracy a chance.
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Where swing is king -
Mail Today
The Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has, worryingly for the Centre, drawn attention to the importance of regional chieftains in installing a government at the Centre just days after the DMK pulled out of the UPA. After the decline of the Left in national politics, Mulayam has assumed the role of prime mover for the so-called third front formation. This was evident on Monday as the SP leader said at a function in Sangli, Maharashtra, that coalition politics had come to stay and called upon "like-minded parties"...
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Musharraf ends self-exile, returns to Pakistan for polls -
Akhtar Soomro, Mint
Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf returned home on Sunday after more than four years in exile, defying a Taliban death threat and vowing to risk his life to “save” the country. “I have come back home today. Where are those who used to say I would never come back?” the former dictator, who plans to stand in a historic 11 May general election, told supporters at Karachi airport.
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Presidential |
14th June 2013 |
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Presidential |
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