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Campaigning for by-elections for two assembly seats in Tamil Nadu ended
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Other, Politics, Trichendhur, competition, election, tamilnadu on December 18th, 2009
Campaigning for by-elections for two assembly seats in Tamil Nadu ended Thursday, an official said. The polls are scheduled to be held Saturday.
Political parties and candidates wound up their campaign in Vandavasi and Tiruchendur assembly constituencies at 5 p.m.
The by-elections will see three-cornered contests with the DMK, the AIADMK and the DMDK fighting for the spoils.
A total of 39 contestants are in the fray — 14 in Vandavasi and 25 in Tiruchendur.
For the first time in the country’s polling history, the Election Commission has decided to match the images of voters captured by the web camera installed in the polling booths with those stored in its central servers to eliminate bogus voting.
As during the August by-elections for five constituencies, the commission will record the polling process live through the web cameras and monitor it from control room here.
While Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin was the star campaigner for the DMK, Leader of the Opposition and AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa and actor-politician Vijayakant were the star attractions for their respective parties.
The two Left parties – the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Communist Party of India which contested in the August by-polls – have this time announced their support to AIADMK candidates while PMK asked its cadres not to vote.
Though charges of bribing the voters with cash, liquor, dhotis, saris and even mobile phone recharge coupons flew thick and fast, Chief Electoral Officer Naresh Gupta said it is difficult to pursue the allegations.
Gupta said 11 companies of paramilitary forces – five from the Central Reserve Police Force and six from the Karnataka State Reserve Police – will be deployed for poll security duty.
The island nation has been urged to give voting rights to Tamils:Wickramasinghe
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Other, Politics, competition, election, illegal on December 16th, 2009
Sri Lankan opposition party leader Ranil Wickramasinghe today said the Election Commission in the island nation has been urged to give voting rights to Tamils in the forthcoming polls to be held there in January next year.
Talking to newspersons at the airport here, the leader of UNP, who was on his way to Colombo from New Delhi, Mr Wickramasinghe said the opposition parties in Sri Lanka had urged the Election Commission to accord voting rights not only to the Tamils living in the camps set up by the government, but also to those who had moved out and were staying with their relatives.
”We are hopeful that the Election Commission will see eye to eye with us”, he said, answering a spate of questions on the current situation in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the war between the Lankan army and the LTTE.
Asked for his comments on retired army chief Sarath Fonseka’s accusation that some top LTTE leaders who had offered to surrender were killed at the behest of officials of the Rajapaksa government itself without informing him, Mr Wickramasinghe said Fonseka had said so because he wanted to remove any blot against his name as he happened to be the army chief then.
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