President Election
Neeraj Shekhar is SP candidate from Ballia constituency
Neeraj Shekhar, son of late prime minister Chandra Shekhar, will be the Samajwadi Party candidate from the Ballia Parliamentary constituency, the by-election for which is expected soon.
The announcement of Shekhar’s candidature was made by SP leaders Janeshwar Mishra, Ram Gopal Yadav and Amar Singh at a joint press conference in the presence of Shekhar. [...]
Former diplomat Ansari elected India’s vice-president
Mohammad Hamid Ansari, a former diplomat and academic, was elected India’s new vice-president on Friday.
A nominee of the ruling alliance, Ansari, 70, defeated opposition-backed rival, Najma Heptullah, by 233 votes for the largely ceremonial post. He is India’s third Muslim vice-president.
An electoral college of members of parliament elects the vice-president, who also acts as [...]
AFTER THE INDIAN CENTURY- Indian democracy is not free of perversions
Taking a broad view of how humanity had performed in the 20th century, The past century with despair. The century of wars, the Holocaust, Hiroshima, depressions, the scourge of AIDS, environmental degradation, and other forms of exploitation was savage enough. Yet, in the midst of the misery, principally of Western making, one country stands [...]
Indian politics gets more fractious
As Pakistan goes through unprecedented turmoil under the confrontation launched by religious fundamentalists, India too is moving towards greater, if admittedly low-intensity, political strife and fractiousness. That is the most significant portent from the recent presidential election in India, undoubtedly the most contentious in its Independent history. The election for the first time installed [...]
FACTS AT A GLANCE — VICE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2007
The election to the Office of the Vice President, to be held on 10th of this month, is the thirteenth. The earlier elections to this office were held in the years 1952, 1957 (both uncontested), 1962, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1979 (unopposed), 1984, 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2002.
Under the provisions of Article 66(1) of Constitution [...]
Is Patil the right leader for India?
As the US debates its readiness to accept a woman such as Hillary Clinton as president, India has already done so, with the election of Pratibha Patil. Although in India the presidency is primarily a ceremonial post that carries less weight than that of prime minister (the position once held by Indira Gandhi), it [...]
It’s still a triangular contest for Vice President
A triangular contest was on the cards for the vice presidential election Aug 10 as the three candidates who were cleared following the scrutiny of papers remained in the fray Thursday, the last day for withdrawing nominations.
The ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), along with the Left Front and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and [...]