India Parliament Election
- India will hold general elections to the 15th Lok Sabha in 5 phases on April 16, April 22, April 23, April 30, May 7 and May 13, 2009. The results of the election will be announced in single phase on May 16, 2009.
Polling schedule for the 2009 General Elections
- April 16 - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep
- April 23 - Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Orissa, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand
- April 30 - Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu
- May 7 - Bihar, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi
- May 13 - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, Puducherry
Lok Sabha
- Lok Sabha is composed of representatives of the people chosen by direct election on the basis of the adult suffrage. The maximum strength of the House envisaged by the Constitution is 552, which is made up by election of upto 530 members to represent the States, upto 20 members to represent the Union Territories and not more than two members of the Anglo-Indian Community to be nominated by the Hon'ble President, if, in his opinion, that community is not adequately represented in the House. The total elective membership is distributed among the States in such a way that the ratio between the number of seats allotted to each State and the population of the State is, so far as practicable, the same for all States.
EC to have daily media briefing at 4 pm
- The Election Commission has decided to brief the media at 4 pm on all days till May 16, the counting day -- to avoid controversies and misinterpretation.
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Will voters overcome politicians and political parties?
At this point in time, the country needs a decisive leadership, a clear ideology, a well-granulated plan of action to take it to a different level of progress. Especially because the world's economy is shrinking, which according to the World Bank, could be a contraction of between one to two per cent. India has to hear a different drummer and rise above the mess around it.
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Poorer the state, the richer the neta
Now that election season is upon us, we will be bombarded by all manner of analyses, pre-election surveys on voting behaviour, post-election analyses on whether people voted their caste or just cast their vote; and so on. Till then, it is a good idea to focus on more basic questions: Do political representatives make any difference, to the state they are from, or to the castes they represent (are OBCs in Bihar any better off after 15 years of Lalu-raj?); indeed, are our MLAs/MPs even representative in the true sense of the term; does only money-power matter?.
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Kalam asks parties to field candidates with 'integrity'
Most of India's lawmakers are ill-informed and unsure of their objectives which hampers the nation's progress, former President A P J Abdul Kalam has said and advised political parties to field candidates who have "integrity" and can deliver on development. Watching the Lok Sabha poll fever with keen interest, he appealed to the political parties to place the nation above everything else and nominate people who can "work and succeed with integrity" in the elections. "All the political parties should keep in their mind ...that the nation is bigger than the party or any individual," Kalam told PTI in an interview.
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