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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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Pak election: Punjab will be the game-changer -
Najam Sethi, Mail Today
The first elected parliament and government in Pakistan's 66-year history have completed their mandated five-year-term and gone home. This is a great achievement. Generally speaking, it means that our political elites have finally recognised the value of setting and playing by the core rules of the game of electoral democracy. A clutch of constitutional amendments, with the help of the Opposition - empowering the Prime Minister at the expense of the President...
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Karnataka: State of no choice -
Saritha Rai, Indian Express
The Karnataka Congress is a party in search of a leader. It is a party in pursuit of an election mission statement, a manifesto. It is a party chasing the elusive glue to stick its divergent factions together. Yet, and this is none of its doing, many expect the party to pull off a victory in the just-announced assembly elections in May. Some Congressmen may choose not to see the irony in this situation.
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Congress victory in Karnataka civic polls -
Imran Qureshi, Outlook
The top leadership of the Congress may at last have reason to smile. The party’s victory in Karnataka’s urban local bodies election comes after nearly six years of badgering by the BJP’s electoral triumphs across the spectrum—from panchayat to assembly elections. And all thanks to the common party worker, who was given the power of decision-making, without a penny of funding from the state party leadership.
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BJP plans Modi-led yatra -
Business Standard
Considering Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s immense popularity and his control over the party cadre, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s central leadership has decided to hold a Modi-led nationwide yatra to mobilise voters. Though party leaders have said they wouldn’t announce the National Democratic Alliance’s prime ministerial candidate before the general elections, the yatra is expected to project Modi at the national level, leaving little doubt the Gujarat chief minister would lead the party if the BJP comes to power in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
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A Modi wave in the making? -
Swapan Dasgupta, Pioneer
India’s metereological department may well have a mixed record of accurately forecasting the weather. However, when it comes to identifying changing political patterns, the well-entrenched Establishment of the National Capital is usually on the ball. The past few weeks have witnessed a remarkable churning that would have been unimaginable in 2012. The Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who had, at best, been viewed as an effective State leader who enjoyed niche support in the social media but who...
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Paper trail: Wisdom dawns at last on the poll panel -
A Surya Prakash, Pioneer
After standing on false prestige and even becoming vindictive against those who suspected the integrity of electronic voting machines, the Election Commission of India has finally acceded to the demand that the machines must issue a paper receipt to voters. The commission’s decision — made known to the Supreme Court in February in response to a petition filed by Mr Subramanian Swamy, president of the Janata Party, that EVMs be scrapped — is a major victory for all those who were campaigning against electronic voting machines because the latter lacked transparency.
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