This week, Meira Kumar became the first woman speaker of Lok Sabha, the directly elected lower house of the Parliament of India. It was really a historical day for Indian democracy. She is a five time Lok Sabha member. However she was Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the last [...]

16th May 2009 was an a historical day for Indian History. On this day the results of Indian General Elections 2009 was declared and Indian National Congress led United Progressive Alliance got 250+ seats, Bharatiya Janata Party conceded defeat, and acknowledged that they could not be the single largest party or a single largest alliance. [...]

Indian General Elections are over and results are out. In this elections around 714 million Indians voted which is an increase of 43 million over the 2004 election. The total expense of this election was Rs.1,120 Crores. India’s oldest political party Indian National Congress became the single largest party with 206 seats. After the [...]

Indian General Elections 2009 results are out. The Congress party’s has shown spectacular performance in General Elections and secured its biggest win since 1991. The Congress party-led coalition is likey to win 261 seats, which is still short of majority by 11 seats. However the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led opposition alliance is lagging behind at [...]

Leads: UPA(Congress Party): 253, NDA(BJP): 162, 3rd Front: 83, Oth: 45. So this is the status of Indian General Elections at 3:06pm Saturday (IST). The verdict of Indians seems to be pretty clear this time. And the verdict is stable, strong and independent Government. The Indian business community is happy to see that Left front [...]

Do you remember the shoe attack on former US president George Bush? Actually months after an infuriated Iraqi reporter flung a shoe at US President George Bush, its now our home minister Chidambaram’s time to face the shoe. Last week, Chidambaram, who was speaking in a press conference about 1984 riots in which hundreds of [...]

In the Indian General Elections 2009, BJP is all set to make full use of internet and open source technologies in its election campaign. This week, BJP has published its IT Vision document. In the document, the party has made big promises for IT community of India. After coming back to power, BJP will actively promote [...]

Yesterday, India’s election commission announced that the India will have general elections in April-May this year, starting from April 16. This was announced by CEC Gopalaswami at a press conference, also attended by Election Commissioners Navin B Chawla and S Y Quraishi. This time, around 714 million people are eligible to participate in the election [...]

On January 28th, 2009, Election Commissioner Dr. S.Y. Quraishi announced that the elections would be held between April 8th, 2009 and May 15th, 2009, though the exact polling dates would only be announced in due course. So the fever of Indian elections is on the way. Let’s be prepared for the fever. Since independence, elections [...]