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| | Elections in Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A further 9 members were elected from National constituencies - seats allocated ethnically (3 for each ethnic constituency) but elected by universal suffrage. | | | Of the 8 seats allocated to General Electors, 3 were elected from a communal roll and 5 from national constituencies. | | | Of the 22 seats allocated each to indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians, 12 were elected from Communal constituencies and 10 from National constituencies. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Fiji
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| | The Roots |
| | It sets out the Party's thoughts and priorities in the task of rehabilitation and reconstruction and signals the road to a new and better day, in which shall be fulfilled the hopes and aspirations of our people for Unity, national Independence, Stability and Prosperity. | | | The Party thereby ushered in the country a new era of equal opportunity for all Ugandans. | | | Milton Obote, President of the Uganda Peoples Congress 1. |
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http://www.upcparty.net/1980
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| | Indian National Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party, abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. | | | The Congress (I) was routed in the general elections by the Janata Party. | | | Nehru led the Congress Party to consecutively awesome majorities in the elections of 1952, 1957 and 1962. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress
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| | The Epoch Times Epoch Times Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party - Part 2 |
| | According to the Party, its mistakes were all made by individual Party leaders, e.g., Zhang Guotao or the Gang of Four [22]. | | | Hu Yaobang, another party Secretary, who was forced to resign in January of 1987, fought to bring justice to many innocent victims who had been criminalized during the Cultural Revolution. | | | Mao Zedong was judged by the Party as having 3 parts mistakes and 7 parts achievements, while Deng Xiaoping judged himself to have 4 parts mistakes and 6 parts achievements, but the Party itself was never wrong. |
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http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-12-10/24830.html
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| | The War Powers Resolution: After Thirty Years |
| | The congressional view was that the framers of the Constitution gave Congress the power to declare war, meaning the ultimate decision whether or not to enter a war. | | | The resolution was a compromise between Congress and the President. | | | On November 26, 11 prominent law professors filed a brief in favor of such a judicial action, arguing that the Constitution clearly vested Congress with the authority to declare war and that Federal judges should not use the political questions doctrine to avoid ruling on the issue. |
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http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL32267.html
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| | hr1292_95.bill |
| | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. | | | Construction of expedited deportation requirements Section 6533(a) of this title and the amendments made by the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-416, 108 Stat. | | | The Directors of the Passport Office and the Visa Office must be experienced in carrying out the immigration and nationality laws. |
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| | tribuneindia... Himachal |
| | HAMIRPUR, May 20 — Himachal Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal blasted the Congress party for contesting election on the stability plank. | | | He said that if people voted for the Congress party, the nation would be doomed. | | | Mr Shanta Kumar said the mandate was in favour of the BJP as the single largest party in the country after the previous elections, but the Congress forced the mid-term poll on the country. |
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99may21/himachal.htm
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| | ORANGE AGENT - ENDURING PAIN |
| | The ninth National Party Congress was a congress of intellect, democracy, unity and renewal, manifesting the whole nation’s consistent will and great hope at the important stage of entering the new century. | | | The Congress approved the political report, the strategy for national socio-economic development in the 2001-2010 period and the Party Central Committee (8th Congress)’s report on the orientations and tasks of the five-year plan for socio-economic development in the 2001-2005 period. | | | The Congress affirmed a renewal of the Party's leadership in the spirit of the revolution and of science. |
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http://www.vnagency.com.vn/html/special3_ta/special3_ta.asp?NewsID=135677
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| | Rediff On The NeT: Mani Shankar Aiyar on the Era of Coalitions |
| | This is the class which believes it is the Congress' duty to ensure stability by putting national interest over that of the party's. | | | There are three nationals -- the BJP, the Communists and the Congress. | | | The third is rule by the Congress -- probably not entirely on its own, but at the head of a coalition. |
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http://www.indiaabroad.com/news/apr/19mani.htm
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| | The Kathmandu Post |
| | The CIAA has targeted former ministers belonging to Nepali Congress party first by sending letters to 23 of them to be present before the CIAA within seven days beginning last Thursday. | | | Nepali Congress (NC) Central Working Committee (CWC) member Krishna Prasad Sitaula today said that Taranath Ranabhat, Speaker of the House of Representatives, ought to have initiated moves to convene the parliamentary session, as part of the pressure tactics to restore the political process. | | | Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of the CPN-UML, said here today that his party accepts the action against corruption initiated by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). |
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http://www.kantipuronline.com/archive/kpost/2003-5-19/kp_frontpg.htm
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| | Party Divisions - Office of the Clerk |
| | In 14 cases, party control of the seat changed with the special election, and the Democrats ended up with a majority of House seats. | | | Before the first day of Congress, 19 representatives-elect died. | | | Learn about the Clerk, the Capitol, and Congress. |
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http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_History/partyDiv.html
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| | MoJo Blog Index |
| | It looks like this administration is not only tired of international courts impeding on its power, but our own Supreme Court, not to mention Congress. | | | Prompted by an international tribunals decision last year ordering new hearings for 51 Mexicans on death rows in the United States, the State Department said yesterday that the United States had withdrawn from the protocol that gave the tribunal jurisdiction to hear such disputes. | | | So, Bush declared that Texas state courts grant a new trial to Medellinand some 51 Mexican nationals currently in a similar situationin the name of the principles of the ICJ, but then effectively took the enforcement power out of the Supreme Court and ICJ's hands. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/blog
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| | Text of S. 25, McCain-Feingold, 105th Congress |
| | Representatives of the United States of America in Congress | | | of a national committee, and an officer or agent acting on | | | party, or by an agent or officer of any such committee or |
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http://www.nationalcenter.org/McCainFeingold.html
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| | NEWS FLASH ARC 55- Nepalnews.Com |
| | Kathmadu, July 26: Chairman of the Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala exercising the authority provided by the constitution of the party, reconstituted the Central Committee of the party today. | | | In the newly reconstituted apex body of the Nepali Congress, there are thirty members, including the chairman and other five elected members as per the constitution of the party. | | | According to the constitution of Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party, two MPs have to be elected from each five development region. |
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http://www.nepalnews.com/contents/archive/mainnews/arc55.htm
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| | Vermont Green Party News Page |
| | He stated that the party’s goal is now to move beyond the Presidential candidate debate that has created rifts in the national party and was the primary cause of confusion and division in the Vermont meeting. | | | Bush has not stated his position yet, but Congress members are signing on to support the Federal Marriage Amendment, seeking to enact President Clinton's anti-gay 1996 Defense of Marriage Act as a constitutional prohibition against same-sex marriages. | | | But he is little-known outside California, where he received about 3 percent of the vote as the Green Party's candidate for California governor during the 2003 recall drive that led to the ouster of Democrat Gray Davis and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger. |
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http://www.vermontgreens.org/news.html
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| | Manifesto - Congress party, Lok sabha elections, Indian national congress, Congress achievements, Rozgar, woman child, health care education, Minorities, Dalits and Adivasis, Panchayati Raj, National Security, regional development |
| | For the Congress, Indian nationalism is all-inclusive and cosmopolitan, a nationalism that draws creatively from every facet of Indias rich and variegated heritage, a nationalism that is not narrow or bigoted but celebrates the contribution made to our composite culture by each of the religions of the land. | | | It is the Congress that abolished zamindari and ushered in land reforms. | | | The truth is that the NHAI was established by the Congress government in 1995. |
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http://www.joincongress.com/about/manifesto.asp
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| | South Asia |
| | He was the son of Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer, and the leader of the Indian National Congress Party. | | | The Indian National Congress Party became the dominant political movement pushing for Indian independence from Britain. | | | The Kashmir National Conference was independent of the Indian National Congress, but it maintained close ties and generally pushed for the same policies as the Indian National Congress Party. |
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http://www.cet.edu/earthinfo/sasia/SAdef.html
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| | Asia Times |
| | It helped the Congress stress the point that it is a national party running governments from the deep southern state of Kerala to northwestern Kashmir. | | | The voters of Gujarat recently rejected the Congress party's soft Hindutva campaign led by former BJP leader Shankarsinh Waghela and instead elected his former protege and BJP leader Narendra Modi, the alleged mastermind behind the last year's massacres. | | | It is this that seems to have led to a rethink in the Congress party's higher echelons. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EF07Df01.html
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| | The Khalsa Day Parade: April 10, 2004: Sikhism |
| | Indian National Congress Party :- Congress, also known as the `Soft Hindutva' wing of the Sangh Parivar, it practices Hindutva under the deceptive guise of Pseudo-Secularism. | | | Bharatiya Jan Sangh, Indic Race Party:- Founded in October 1951 with the Bengal Brahmin Shyama Prasad Mookerjee as its president, who had resigned from the allied `soft' Brahminist Congress in Apil 1950[ Chandra ] was president until he died in 1953. | | | The second president, the Brahmin Mauli Chandra Sharma resigned in 1954 to protest against RSS domination of the party. |
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http://khalsadayparade.org/hinduterrorism.htm
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| | congress4india - Power To The People Discussion Site For the Indian National Congress Party - Official site aicc.org.in |
| | The fact the all 13 Congress MLAs chose to attend the rally by defying a party whip, and that 36 of the 62 Congress MLAs refuse to attend the CLP meeting called by Mr Chandy is being seen as the signal of the inroads Mr Karunakaran has made. | | | Rahul's mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi was a back-bencher on Monday as the treasury benches applauded Rahul by thumping desks. | | | He is still confident of being re-accommodated by the Congress as a Cabinet minister at the Centre although reports indicate that Prime Minister Singh is not particularly favourable because of the cases against Mr Soren. |
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http://www.congress4india.com
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| | Indian national congress - President - Smt. Sonia Gandhi - BIO |
| | Mrs Sonia Gandhi is the President of the Indian National Congress Party which has made a remarkable comeback in the recently concluded general elections for the 14th Lok Sabha. | | | In response to widespread demands from the Congress Party, Mrs Gandhi entered public life before the 1998 Lok Sabha election, when she campaigned vigorously on behalf of the Party. | | | Mrs Gandhi spent most of her life largely as a private citizen, except for the years, 1984 to 1991, when her husband, Rajiv Gandhi was Prime Minister and leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
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http://www.aicc.org.in/sonia_bio.htm
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| | Hammorabi: 01/01/2004 - 01/31/2004 |
| | The Baath party with Saddam's neurotic, dictator, dubious, totalitarian and criminal personality changed this and introduce the Baath as the sole party in the army. | | | He had no political party and don't like to do so and he is not Khomeni but he was and still against Khomeni's views about involving religion in political. | | | It should not break the law or be used aganist the nation. |
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http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/archives/2004_01_01_hammorabi_archive.html
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| | Indian National Congress,Congress I,INA,Congress Party India News |
| | The oldest Indian political party, the Indian National Congress was formed in 1885 and was the most powerful force behind the country's struggle for independence It also held power for most years after independence. | | | The party has also been instrumental in the making or fall of non-Congress governments at the centre when it was out of power. | | | The Congress popularity nose-dived mainly due to the involvement of its leaders, including Narasimha Rao, in the vote buying case during a confidence vote and other corruption charges. |
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http://www.indian-elections.com/partyprofiles/congress.html
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| | Prime Minister of India - Biocrawler definition:Prime Minister of India - Biocrawler |
| | The early years were dominated by the Indian National Congress party, which held the premiership for the first thirty years of India's independence. | | | Manmohan Singh was named the Prime Minister-designate on 19 May 2004 after party president Sonia Gandhi declined the post. | | | In this system, the Prime Minister is generally the leader of a party (or coalition of parties) that can gain a majority in the lower house (Lok Sabha) of the Parliament of India. |
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http://www.biocrawler.com/biowiki/Prime_Minister_of_India
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| | India - Political Parties |
| | JMM is an ally of the Indian National Congress Party and participates in the current national government. | | | It is a recognised political party in the state of Maharashtra. | | | JSS is a political party in Kerala (currently sitting in the state government), formed through a split in CPI(M). |
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http://flagspot.net/flags/in}.html
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| | GN Online: Congress-TMC merger to have minimal impact |
| | The decision by the Tamil Manila Congress to merge with the parent body, the Indian National Congress, on August 1 is a sign of changing times in Tamil Nadu, but its fall-out on the strong Dravidian parties is expected to be minimal. | | | The Congress party could shift its alliance from the AIADMK to the DMK. | | | But the key issue of leadership of the party at the state level may have been put to rest by Vasan, who announced he does not want leadership of the state unit of the Congress party after the merger and prefers to be a member of the AICC. |
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| | Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Afghanistan |
| | The links between the political leaders of the North-West Frontier Province and the Hindu leaders of Congress were such that a majority in the North-West Frontier Province assembly originally voted to go with India in the partition, a decision which probably would have been rejected by the voting majority in the province. | | | The clearest manifestation that Abdur Rahman's had established control in Afghanistan was the peaceful successor of his eldest son, Habibullah, to the throne on his father's death in October 1901. | | | Afghanistan ordered nondiplomatic personnel from all belligerents to leave, and a loya jirgah called by the king supported his policy of absolute neutrality. |
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| | Wisner: Congress Party Victory Wont Set Back Indian Relations with Pakistan, U.S. - Council on Foreign Relations |
| | The reason: its thin margin of victory, which may soon lead to a series of new national elections in which Congress would again compete against the defeated incumbent, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). | | | Frank G. Wisner II, a former U.S. ambassador to India, says the return to power of a coalition government in India led by the Indian National Congress party may slow— but not alter— Indian economic reform and efforts to improve relations with Pakistan. | | | The instinct of the Congress-led coalition, particularly the leaders of the Congress Party, will be inclined towards stability. |
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http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=7023
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| | International Trotskyism-India |
| | The significance of this in India was its strong and continuing opposition to the Indian National Congress Party. | | | Thus, the Fifth Congress of the RCPI (Tagore) passed a resolution in 1948 which argued that "since organizing world revolution is possible only through a world party, the development of a revolutionary International is one of the most essential tasks of the revolutionary proletariat of the world in general, and our party in particular. | | | The Peasants and Workers Party was virtually wiped out in the election, with the result that Khadilkar joined the Congress Party and became a deputy minister in the Nehru government. |
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http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/alex/works/in_trot/india.htm
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| | Environment Activist Beaten up - Protest Petition |
| | The Environment Activist Beaten up - Protest Petition to Chief Minister of Maharashtra, PM of India and other Union and State Government ministers and Indian National Congress Party Functionaries was created by and written by Sudhir Badami. | | | To: Chief Minister of Maharashtra, PM of India and other Union and State Government ministers and Indian National Congress Party Functionaries | | | May this act of yours be a signal to all other Congress leaders and party workers and any one else that no one is above the law and acting unlawfully or not in the interest of the citizens or the environment would never be tolerated. |
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http://www.petitiononline.com/eabup/petition.html
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