SMA Kazmi Tribune News Service January 10, 2011 Uttarakhand is perhaps the only state in the country that has seen the decline of a regional political party since it came into being on November 9, 2000. Since the country attained Independence, and particularly in the…
Read more »Results from the National Election Study for the 2009 parliamentary elections have been aggregated and analyzed by Dr. Annpurna Nautiyal of Garhwal University. Charts of some of the salients points have been drafted and are shown below: Popularity The previous Tiwari government was marginally more…
Read more »BD Kasniyal, Tribune Pitthoragarh, May 19 Villagers of Kumaon, disappointed with their elected representatives for failure to provide them water, roads and electricity, boycotted the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections. The EVMs installed in their polling booths did not register a single vote. The villagers of…
Read more »Rajeev Khanna, Indian Express Sun May 17 2009 Dehradun: Converting the prevalent anti-incumbency mood to its advantage, the Congress swept the hills, winning all five seats. It was a major setback for the BJP that is in power in the state assembly and had campaigned…
Read more »Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / Dehra Dun May 04, 2009 Although both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the two main parties in Uttarakhand, are targeting each other for not improving the economic health of the hill state, politics on the real…
Read more »By Our Staff Reporter Garhwal Post, August 4, 2008 Ramnagar, 3 Aug: The Uttarakhand Parivartan Abhiyan has held a two day political meeting in Ramnagar. The main aim of the meeting was to build a political alternative in the state. The Central Convener of the…
Read more »S M A Kazmi, Indian Express Tue Apr 15 2008 DEHRADUN, APRIL 14: Rajni Rawat, the head eunuch of Dehradun, has turned the April 19 mayoral elections, into a colourful affair. A large number of eunuchs, particularly those who have won elections in various parts…
Read more »Kuldip Nayar Gulf News, 04-Mar-07 THE voting pattern in India is undergoing a change beyond conjecture. There were times when Pakistan or Kashmir would be an issue in every election, provincial or central. Then it was the phase of slogans like the state’s constitutional rights…
Read more »Sidharth Mishra | New Delhi Daily Pioneer, March 1, 2007 At the end of the month-long election campaign, a general consensus prevailed that the BJP, though it would remain far ahead of the Congress, would fall short of the halfway mark. The matters were not…
Read more »As expected, the winning party was able to squeak through with a small percentage margin of victory, but with a large haul of seats. In this case, the BJP with a third of the vote, won half the seats. The actual margins were similar to…
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