Archive for July, 2007
UPA-Left names Ansari for Vice-President
The former diplomat, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, was on Friday unanimously declared the United Progressive Alliance-Left candidate for the August 10 Vice-Presidential election. The name of Mr. Ansari, Chairman of the National Minorities Commission, was announced by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at a meeting of the UPA-Left Coordination Committee here.
Over the last two days, Communist [...]
How India’s presidency works
India holds an election for a new president on Thursday. Here are some key facts about the office.
* The president is elected to a five-year term by an electoral college consisting of members of both the houses of parliament and the state legislative assemblies. The winner of Thursday’s vote will be announced on Saturday.
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India is waiting for Next President
India is set to elect its first female president Thursday in an election that has seen more controversy and mudslinging than any recent contests.
Pratibha Patil, governor of the northwestern state of Rajasthan, is the candidate of the ruling Congress party and its allies, but her nomination has surprised many political observers because she lacks [...]
Prez Poll began today
Polling began this morning to elect a new President, climaxing a month-long bitter campaign which saw the worst mud-slinging in the run up to choose the successor to A P J Abdul Kalam. The polling started dot at 10 am in the Parliament House amidst tight security and strict vigil by the Election [...]
Voting not must: Election Commission
The Election Commission on Tuesday said that the UNPA cannot direct its legislators to abstain from voting in the presidential election. The observation was made quoting Article 171 C of the Constitution.
The NDA had objected to the UNPA’s move to abstain from voting saying large parts of the electorate would remain unrepresented.
In a clarification, [...]
India to elect a new president Thursday
The voting, marred by weeks of mudslinging involving candidates Pratibha Patil, 72, and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 83, will begin at 10 a.m. in the parliament building for MPs and in state assemblies across the country for MLAs, the members of the state legislative assemblies. The exercise will end at 5 p.m.
Although 4,120 MLAs and [...]
The Congress pick could be a Muslim.
Leaders of Left parties have been holding informal consultations over the electoral battle due in August. The Left has said it would begin the exercise of finding a ‘widely accepted’ candidate Thursday.
The Left, which was keen to evolve a consensus on a vice president between the UPA and the eight-party United National Progressive Alliance [...]