Posts Tagged ‘election’

Pune police have installed wireless sets at sensitive polling centres

Times of India: In a step aimed at enhancing communication among police officials during the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday, the Pune police have installed 328 wireless sets at sensitive polling centres and other places.
April 23rd, 2009 | News | Read More

Women candidates dominate the election in Baramati

Times of India: Of the four constituencies in Pune district, Baramati is the only place one where there is no talk of a keen contest. The fight is mainly among women candidates NCP’s Supriya Sule, BJP’s Kanta Nalawade and independent nominee Mrunalini Kakade. Apart from the main women...
April 23rd, 2009 | News | Read More

The process of making a democracy – Punekar youth talks about Elections 2009!

The younger citizens of our country have always considered voting a mere waste of time since time immemorial. They have never even showed the least of curiosity in taking a step toward the polling booths to caste votes. But now they have realised its high time and they need to roll off those beanbags...
April 22nd, 2009 | India, Your voice | Read More

City gears up for election

Indian Express: Around 500 polling stations have been identified as sensitive in the district in the run-up to polling day on April 23. While digital cameras will be installed at 248 polling stations, 118 polling stations have been identified as special.
April 22nd, 2009 | News | Read More

Sonia Gandhi sells Congress and stability from city platform

Indian Express: Only the Congress can provide a stable government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said even as she targeted the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate L K Advani, and showered praises on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a rally in the city.
April 21st, 2009 | News | Read More

Advocate contesting elections for the 50th time!

Indian Express: When advocate Subhash Narhar Godse (59) was getting ready to file his papers as an Independent candidate from Pune last month, his wife Mangal rebuked him: “Why go unnecessarily? This is not our field.”
April 21st, 2009 | News | Read More

Poll tradition could make or mars parties

Sakaal Times: Will city voters continue or break the tradition of keeping the second runner-up at well below 8 per cent of the total votes is the million dollar question in the arithmetic for the coming Lok Sabha election.
April 17th, 2009 | Sports | Read More

Walls and roads are graffiti-free in the city

Pune Mirror: The nation might have plunged into an election frenzy, but Pune seems to be showing no signs of that. Many candidates have jumped into poll fray from the city, but the walls and roads here are poster and graffiti-free.
April 17th, 2009 | News | Read More

Suresh Kalmadi booked for poll code violation

Sakaal Times: City police today booked the Congress Pune Lok Sabha seat candidate and sitting MP Suresh Kalmadi for allegedly violating the model code of conduct by using a large number of vehicles during his election campaign on Monday evening.
April 16th, 2009 | News | Read More

In urban Pune, caste combos still matter

Indian Express: No Lok Sabha election can be about such issues as traffic and public transport, but Pune could prove to be an exception. That is why, leveraging the Commonwealth Youth Games in October last year, sitting Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi ensured maximum funds were channellled towards removing...
April 15th, 2009 | News | Read More
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