In recently concluded election in Iran, on 12th June 2009, the incumbent, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won in big margin against his opponent Mir Hussein Moussavi. But since the result was declared, there has been lot of protest going accusing the ruling party of rigging the election.

People of Iran has been widely using internet as medium of protest and Twitter has been used to syncronize as well and exchange messages among protesters. This is a significant development in Iran, a country which western media portrays as a regressive government and western governments accuse of developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) aimed at western world.
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Finally, the voting process in India got over yesterday after the fifth and final phase of voting. There was not any big issue for this election. Most probably this election campaigning saw record laws in terms of political opportunism. 10 incidents which were highlight according to me in this election:

1. Hate speech and imposition of NSA ( National Security Act) on Varun Gandhi, BJP Candidate, Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh.

2. Failure of Congress and its leading partners RJD and LJP to form alliance in Bihar.

3. Failure of Congress and SP ( Samajbadi Party) to form alliance in UP.

4. Break up of BJP and BJD alliance in Orissa.
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Recently, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav has accused Congress Party of being a party to Babri Masjid demolition along with BJP and other Hindu Extremist parties!
Here is the news:

“Bol rahe Babri Masjid girane wale… Aur Congress party bhi hai girane wala, bachaya nahin” (about Babri Masjid demolition, Congress party is also responsible for it, it did not save it), Yadav said during an election rally in Manigachi in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, about 150 km from Patna, in an obvious reference to the Congress government then ruling at the Centre. Source and Complete Story Here.

Babri Masjid was demolished on 6th December 1992. Many in India termed this to be black day for Indian democracy as well as a blot on secularism in India. No death reported during the Babri Masjid demolition. There was a serial blast in Mumbai in March 1993 and a rioting which resulted in death of more than 200 people. Also there were reports that many temples in Bangladesh and Pakistan were demolished in response to the Babri Masjid Demolition.
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I belong to a village called Ukhamati. This is 2009 and in our village we do not have:
1. Electricity
2. Water Supply
3. Proper Road.

Every year I spend at least two months in my village. Rest of the time I travel or live in other cities like New Delhi, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Kolkota, Ahmedabad or Indore. After reading about various election manifesto by political parties in the run up to the 2009 Loksabha election, I have been thinking about my village.

Some parties talking about broadband connectivity to every village, some parties about providing TV to every household. I am wondering what about my village ?

I remember, I saw the concrete electric post in my village way back in 1984. The posts were erected and now they are gone. As per my recent information, our village Ukhamati Continue reading →

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A Sikh Journalist, Mr. Jarnail Singh has thrown a shoe at P Chidambaram, Home Minister, Government of India, at press conference held at 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi.

New Delhi: A journalist threw a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram at a press conference on Tuesday, protesting against the minister’s reply on his question on CBI’s clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 Sikh riots case.
The shoe did not hit the minister and the journalist, a senior reporter with Dainik Jagran, was taken into custody. Source

Here is the video too :

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Indian general election is going to be held in April – May 2009 for 15th Lok Sabha.

India has the largest number of voters. News about election has been headlines in many news papers, TV News Channels all over India. Many political alignment taking place at many parts of the country. Even I have put up POLL, asking visitors to this site ( if any) to vote, who would form the next government. According to me, NDA should form the government. Though many poll surveys predict UPA win and forming government, but I am sticking to my thinking. Here are my reasons:
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