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Criminality a long-term trend in Indian polls, proves 2014 -Zia Haq

-The Hindustan Times   An increasing number of candidates facing criminal charges are being fielded by India's political parties at all levels of Elections, including state polls, data from over a 10-year period shows. Underlining the seriousness of the issue, two new studies suggest stronger correlation between wealth, crime and winning ability. Overall 17% of the candidates contesting the 2014 Elections have a criminal background, up from 15% in 2009, when the previous...

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Why India's migrants are unable to vote -Atish Patel

-BBC   Delhi: A record number of people have taken part in India's general election, now in its home stretch with just one round of voting left before results are announced on 16 May. Part of the reason for the increase in turnout in the five-week-long polls, which began on 7 April, can be attributed to the Election Commission for successfully encouraging more women and low-caste Indians to vote. But many remain excluded. Because Indians...

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Women in Party Politics -Shamika Ravi and Rohan Sandhu

-Brookings India Working Paper   The Women's Reservation Bill, which proposes to reserves 33 per cent of seats in Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies for women, has been doing the rounds of Indian Parliament in various forms since it was first introduced by the Deve Gowda government in 1996, failing each time, to pass. But during all these years that political parties have been passing the buck for their comprehensive failure...

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UPA-2’s costly mistake: failure to curb rising prices-Asit Ranjan Mishra

-Live Mint   A key reason for the surge in anti-incumbency faced by UPA has been its failure to curb inflationary pressures New Delhi: A key reason for the surge in anti-incumbency faced by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has been its failure to curb inflationary pressures for most of the regime's second tenure. While inflation based on wholesale prices averaged 6.1% during UPA-1 (2004-2009), it was a percentage point higher at 7.1%...

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The rains may just sail the next government’s boat -Sanjoy Narayan

-The Hindustan Times   Once the remaining two phases of India's seemingly never-ending Elections are done and dusted and the results are declared, for whoever it might be that wins and gets to form the government, the first thing on the agenda should be to get down on their knees and pray to the rain gods and wish that the monsoon doesn't disappoint this year - that it comes on time and...

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