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| | Indian general elections, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Before the winning the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan BJP ruled only in three states (Goa, Gujarat, and Jharkhand) and had lost most state elections to Congress. | | | Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governments along with the parliamentary elections. | | | The Election Commission of India is responsible for deciding the dates and conducting elections according to constitutional provisions. |
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| | Parliament of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Indian Parliament consists of two houses - the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha- and the President of India. | | | This is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. | | | Any bill can become an act only after it is passed by both the houses of the Parliament and assented by the President. |
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| | Indian Constitution - definition of Indian Constitution in Encyclopedia |
| | However, a new assertiveness shown by the Supreme Court and the Election Commission suggests that the remaining checks and balances among the country's political institutions continue to support the resilience of Indian democracy. | | | Schedules can be added to the constitution by amendment. | | | Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a Dalit who earned a law degree from Columbia University, chaired the drafting committee of the constitution and shepherded it through Constituent Assembly debates. |
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| | Indian election process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are 545 seats in the Lok Sabha of which 2 are nominated by the President. | | | Convicted criminals are debarred from standing in the elections as well as disfranchised. | | | A few months before the elections, a code of conduct comes into play during which the central and state governments cannot announce any major sops to the electorate to prevent any unfair swings in the voting pattern. |
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| | Member of Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In India, the term Member of Parliament refers to the Sansad or the Indian Parliament chambers of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha MPs to the Lok Sabha are elected popularly by constentuencies in the Indian states and union territories, while MPs to the Rajya Sabha are elected by State legislatures. | | | A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. | | | The Parliament of the United Kingdom is divided into the House of Commons and the House of Lords; though it is often assumed that an MP is a member of Commons, they can be a member of either house. |
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| | Government of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Government of the India, officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, established by the Constitution of India, is a union federal republic of 28 states and 7 union territories. | | | The government exercises its broad administrative powers in the name of the President of India, who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, the Head of State and chief guardian of the Constitution of the Republic. | | | The government has passed a number of laws for the abolition of untouchability, Begar and Zamindari. |
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| | Indian nationality law -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | An application, for registration of the birth of a minor child, must be made to an Indian consulate and must be accompanied by an undertaking in writing from the parents of such minor child that he or she does not hold the passport of another country. | | | This is because during the framing of the constitution, India was partitioned into India and Pakistan (Pakistan being the seceding state) and the constitution framers thought it was necessary to provide in some manner, for the legitimisation of refugee entrants from Pakistan who were previously Indian citizens. | | | A large number of British Overseas Citizens of Indian Origin living in the UK have been approaching us for issue of certificates stating that they are not Indian citizen. |
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| | IPRI :: Islamabad Policy Research Institute |
| | The Election Commission is responsible for the conduct of elections to parliament and state legislatures and to the offices of the President and Vice-President. | | | These elections determine the composition of the government, the membership of the two houses of parliament, the state and union territory legislative assemblies, and the Presidency and vice-presidency. | | | Elections to the Vidhan Sabhas are carried out in the same manner as for the Lok Sabha election, with the states and union territories divided into single-member constituencies, and the first-past-the-post electoral system used. |
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| | India - encyclopedia article about India. |
| | In the 2004 Indian elections the Congress party returned to power after winning the largest number of seats, by a narrow margin. | | | Traditional Indian family values are highly respected and considered sacred, although urban families have grown into a nuclear family system, owing to the socio-economic constraints imposed by the traditional joint family system. | | | The executive arm consists of the President, Vice-President and the Council of Ministers (the Cabinet) headed by the Prime Minister. |
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| | CNN.com - Threat of violence looms ahead of Indian elections - May 9, 2001 |
| | The elections could revive the sagging fortunes of the Congress party, which with its allies is tipped to be on the winning side in at least three of the four key states. | | | However, analysts said the expected victories for Congress or alliances to which it belongs in Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu would help dispel doubts about Italian-born Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's ability to woo voters back to her party. | | | For voters, weary of elections after a run of political instability since 1996 and cynical about the sincerity of their politicians, there is not much to choose among the parties. |
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| | Politics of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The dynamics of the Indian society are quite different from what is usually seen in the "developed world" which necessitates certain "unusual" and "uncustomary" (as compared to the so called "developed world") interrogation methods in India in order to be most effective in enforcing the law of the land. | | | Formation of coalition governments reflects the transition in Indian politics away from the national parties toward smaller, narrower-based regional parties. | | | States have their own elected government, whereas Union Territories are governed by an administrator appointed by the union (federal) government. |
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| | Opposition shuts Indian parliament - (United Press International) |
| | Governors in Indian states are appointed by the president at the recommendation of the federal government. | | | India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance is protesting Jharkhand state governor Syed Sibte Razi's decision to invite a minority Jharkhand Mukti Morcha party to form the new government despite not having the required strength on the floor of the house. | | | While the NDA won 36 seats and showed the support of five independent lawmakers in the 81-member house, Razi invited JMM leader Shibhu Soren to be the next chief minister although the JMM had won 26 seats in the election results declared over the weekend. |
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| | Analysis: Criminals in Indian Parliament - (United Press International) |
| | He was flown to the national capital New Delhi and ushered into Parliament where he took the oath as a member and swore to abide by the Indian Constitution. | | | According to a new Indian law, election candidates have to declare their criminal record. | | | And these lawmakers are rubbing shoulders inside Parliament with the likes of Nikhil Kumar, a former director general of police who spent the greater part of his life putting many Shahbuddins behind bars. |
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| | Biographies of the Attorneys General |
| | Butler was district attorney of Albany County from 1821 to 1824. | | | Kleindienst was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Richard Nixon on June 12, 1972. | | | Crittenden was attorney general of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1810. |
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| | Indian elections produce unstable parliament |
| | The traditional party of the Indian ruling classes, the Congress, was able to avert an ignominious performance with the entry of Rajiv Gandhi's widow, Sonia Gandhi, into its campaign. | | | For the past few elections, the two parties had won seats relying on the formidable strength of the ex-chief minister, Laloo Yadav, and his party. | | | This election marked a gradual shrinkage in the electoral base for both CPI and CPI(M). |
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| | SAWNET: Legal Issues for South Asian Women |
| | Indian Supreme Court rules that both mother and father will be treated as the natural guardian of the minor child, modifying the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act. | | | The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that children from a second marriage are entitled to their shares in the family pension after the death of their father even if his first wife is alive. | | | Family and Marriage laws in India, including the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, the Indian Christian Marriage Act of 1872, the Foreign Marriage Act of 1969. |
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| | India-09.htm |
| | The Indian Evidence Act and the CCrP also prohibit the use of coerced confessions. | | | Most extrajudicial killings carried out by Indian security forces in Kashmir occur after "crackdowns"â cordon and search operations during which all the men of a neighborhood or village are called to assemble for an identification parade in front of hooded informers. | | | Although Indian law requires that everyone taken into custody must be produced before a magistrate within twenty-four hours, in fact, detainees are rarely produced at all. |
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| | MongoliaOnline - Parliament speaker stays India |
| | Tomor-Ochir met with the Chairman of the Supreme Chamber of the Indian Parliament and Vice-President of India Mr. | | | A Mongolian Parliament delegation headed by Speaker S. Tomor-Ochir is attending an international parliamentary conference dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Indian Parliament. | | | Sri Bhairon Singh Shehavat and Honorary President of the Internatioanal Parliament Association Mrs. |
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| | The 1999 Indian Parliamentary Elections and the New BJP-led Coalition Government |
| | In the state assembly elections in Karnataka that accompanied the parliamentary vote, a Congress victory enabled the party to take power in the southern state. | | | Before the campaign had even begun, the Congress was confronted by crisis, as the powerful Congress leader from Maharashtra, Sharad Pawar, challenged Sonia's leadership on the grounds of her Italian birth, and broke to form his own Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). | | | Indian newspapers and magazines carried extensive coverage of the campaign and the election results, with Frontline (biweekly from Chennai) providing particularly good data and analyses. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Indira Gandhi |
| | Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party or Congress (I), abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. | | | Jawaharlal Nehru (à¤&;, JavÄharlÄl NehrÅ«) (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964), also called Pandit (Scholar, Teacher) Nehru, was one of the most important leaders of the Indian Independence Movement and the Indian National Congress, and became the first Prime Minister of India when India won its independence on August... | | | In 1964, the year of her father's death, Indira Gandhi was for the first time elected to Parliament, and she was Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the government of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died unexpectedly of a heart attack less than two years after assuming office. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Asian Indian |
| | Law, Constitution, Political parties (Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress), Foreign relations, Elections, Political divisions | | | Indian writers in modern times have been the cynosure of wide acclaim, both in Indian languages and English. | | | Indian music is represented by a wide variety of forms. |
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| | Indian National Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Congress (I) was routed in the general elections by the Janata Party. | | | The President of the Indian National Congress is in effect the party's national leader, head of the organization, head of the Working Committee and all chief Congress committees, chief spokesman and the Congress choice to become the Prime Minister of India. | | | Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party or Congress (I), abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. |
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| | Information Management in the Indian Parliament - Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments |
| | The Parliament Library has holdings of about 1 million volumes, including debates of the Indian Parliament, the State Legislatures of India, and Foreign Parliaments, reports of Central and State Governments and the United Nations and its allied agencies, Gazettes of Central and State Governments, and other documents. | | | There is a Library Committee of Parliament consisting of six Members of the Lok Sabha, including the Deputy Speaker, and three Members of the Rajya Sabha nominated annually by the Speaker. | | | The Constitution provides for a separate Secretariat for each House of Parliament under a Secretary-General who will report to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha or the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha as the case maybe. |
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| | Congress - encyclopedia article about Congress. |
| | Created in 1885, the Indian National Congress became the nation's leader in the Independence Movement, with over 15 million Indians involved in its organizations and over 70 million participants in its battles with the British government. | | | The U.S. Congress The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. | | | The Basotho Congress Party The Basotho Congress Party is a pan-africanist and left-wing political party in Lesotho, led by Molapo Qholeba. |
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| | Indian Self-Government Process Evaluation: Preliminary Findings |
| | Thirty three Indian governments have engaged in negotiations and concluded at least one and sometimes two Compacts of Self-Government with the United States between 1990 and 1995. | | | Indian governments are emphasizing social and economic development at the expense of political development, this possibility suggests the future weakening of governments and their becoming dependent on federal agencies. | | | Indian governments will gain insights from this study into the effectiveness of their decisions and they will gain insights into the negotiation process with the United States and whether this process should be changed to achieve established goals. |
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| | ZNet Commentary: The Indian Elections 2004: The Vote Against Corporate Globalisation |
| | Indianness was being defined as absence of greed and self-seeking behaviour. | | | The BJP immediately returned to its xenophobic campaign of foreign origins, even though the Supreme Court had ruled that Sonia Gandhi as a citizen of India could not be prevented from occupying the highest electoral office in the country. | | | It was a vote for self-reliance, basic needs, human dignity, economic justice. |
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| | Indian election process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are 545 seats in the Lok Sabha of which 2 are nominated by the President. | | | Convicted criminals are debarred from standing in the elections as well as disfranchised. | | | A few months before the elections, a code of conduct comes into play during which the central and state governments cannot announce any major sops to the electorate to prevent any unfair swings in the voting pattern. |
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| | Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia |
| | In Delhi, the strategies of the BJP and Congress were similar as the incumbent, Congress Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, is known for her proclivity toward technology. | | | The BJP again made full-use of its tech expertise during elections in the crucial states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh that were held on December 1, 2003. | | | Perhaps the first time that technology was used in such a large scale to influence voters was during the Gujarat elections in December 2002, when its principal proponent, Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who belongs to the BJP, won the elections. |
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| | rediff.com: Terrorists attack Parliament; five intruders, six cops killed |
| | Vajpayee is understood to be in Parliament, conferring with his Cabinet colleagues, Home Minister L K Advani and Defence Minister George Fernandes. | | | Both Fernandes and Law Minister Arun Jaitley confirmed that while terrorists had in fact penetrated the compound, they had failed to enter the main building. | | | Seventy-five minutes after the attack, the Parliament building continued to be sealed as security forces were said to be searching for one of the militants holed up inside the complex. |
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| | Parliament of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Usher of the Black Rod, an official of the Senate, formally summons the Commons to the Senate. | | | In that year, the British Parliament passed the British North America Act 1867, uniting the Province of Canada (which was separated into Quebec and Ontario), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single federation, called the Dominion of Canada. | | | Where a Government has lost the confidence of the House of Commons, the Prime Minister is obliged to either resign (allowing the Governor General to appoint the Leader of the Opposition to the office), or seek the dissolution of Parliament and a new general election. |
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