Indian Election Latest News Wrap-up

Lalu Prasad Yadav
Railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav filed his nomination from Patliputra, the newly-formed Lok Sabha constituency.

Sajjan Kumar’s brother Ramesh Kumar
Congress announced ticket for Sajjan Kumar’s brother Ramesh Kumar from the South Delhi constituency and DPCC president J P Aggarwal from North East Delhi.

Kalyan Singh
After 16 years of Babri Masjid demolition, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh said that he very much wanted to prevent the razing of the sixteenth century mosque, but stopped short of apologising for failing to do so.

L K Advani
L K Advani, Prime Ministerial candidate for BJP, demanded that the government should make efforts to bring back the black money that is deposited by Indians in several foreign banks and also raise the issue at an upcoming G20 meet.

Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury, the CPM Politburo member, said that the Third Front will rethink on the Indo-US nuclear deal if voted to power.

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Recent News on Indian Election 2009:
So far richest candidate is Deepak Bhardwaj of BSP
First phase of Lok Sabha polls begins amid tight security
Election Commission gags electronic media on poll coverage

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First phase of Lok Sabha polls begins amid tight security

INDIAN ELECTION NEWS: The first phase of polling out of five of elections to Lok Sabha has begun on Thursday on a moderate note. This phase of election polls will decide the fate of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi and Yashwant Sinha and TRS president K Chandrasekar Rao.

The voting began in 124 constituencies that is spread across 15 states and 2 union territories. In most places the polling will close at 1700 hrs and in naxal-infested areas at 1500 hrs.

More than 14.31 crore voters are eligible to cast their ballot across 1.85 lakh polling stations in the 124 constituencies set up by the Election Commission and secured by tens of thousands of police personnel.

In today’s poll 154 assembly segments in Andhra Pradesh and 70 in Orissa have also been included.

All over is 20 seats in Kerala, 11 in Chhattisgarh and 2 each in Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, 13 out of 40 seats in Bihar, 16 out of 80 in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra 13 (48), Andhra Pradesh 22 (42), Jharkhand 6 (14), Orissa 10 (21), Assam 3 (14), Manipur 1 (2) and Jammu and Kashmir 1 (6). Single seats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Mizoram and Nagaland are also being covered in this first phase of election.

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Election Commission gags electronic media on poll coverage

INDIAN ELECTION NEWS: To avoid any type of misuse of electronic media, the Election Commission said on Tuesday that the electronic media cannot telecast anything that has the tendency of influencing voters in areas where elections are to take place, in the 48 hours preceding voting.

Election Commission has also banned dissemination of results of opinion and exit polls by the media in a separate order. This gag on the electronic media is issued under section 126 of the Representation of People's Act. It prohibits displaying of any election matter on television or any related medium 48 hours before poll. This step is taken because it has been seen as unsuitable for multi-phase elections as well as innocent of the ways the media functions.

The TV channels with their satellite uplink beam programmes of all-India relevance which are completely uncircumscribed by the geographical division that the commission wants to enforce.

The step also carries the danger of harassment of the media by local authorities. We can cross check the case of a national news channel that may show a programme on starvation deaths in Andhra Pradesh or else impact of Salwa Judum in the Chhattisgarh which, like most of others, have multi-phase polls.

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IPL seeking for bullet-proof buses scheduled during the Indian elections in April-May

INDIA PREMIER LEAGUE NEWS: Indian Premier League (IPL), which was in news due to unavailability of proper security forces scheduled during the election months in India is now shopping for bullet-proof buses and cars to protect the star players. The fate of the IPL tournament still remaines uncertain on Friday.

Reports in media says that a South African private security firm hired by the multi-million dollar Twenty20 league had approached a local company to buy 16 buses and 64 SUV's. The vehicles are worth approx 3.1 million dollars in all.

Additional protection issue came last week in the wake of the deadly attack against the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan on 3rd of March this year. The attack killed eight Pakistanis and have also injured seven players.

News also comes that with demand high from Indian politicians campaigning for next month's Indian general elections, the IPL may not be able to buy shielded vehicles at such a short notice.

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The report comes as the Indian Premier League remained embroiled in a row with the Indian government over security issues.

The IPL scheduled opening is on April 10 and is scheduled to end up by May 24. The elections in India will take place in five phases from 16 April to 13 May and the vote counting date is 16 May.

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