The Constitution of India provides many Fundamental rights to its people and one among those is Power of Voting and at the same time the people are not provided with the right to decide “NOT TO VOTE”. Why should we vote?  Most of the people are voting not for choosing their favorite or best candidate but they are thinking that their vote will be counted for prohibiting some one else entering in to the power.

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The recent issue of the much awaited IPL cricket tournament and the elections clashing has forced the IPL organizers to shift the venue to another country.
Due to the recent terorist attack at Pakistan has forced the organizers to provide extra security to the cricket team and the venues, but due to the elections in line, some of the state governments are unable to provide security.
IPL organizers feel it would unfair to cancel the event or move the schedules, so they have decided to move to either UK or south Africa. The final location is expected to be announced today

Stupid politicians and politics, What has congress done for AR Rahman or Pookutty that helped them to win the Oscar or are responsible for creating slums in Mumbai, could be..

Trust politicians to claim credit, even for something they have not contributed tsaid.o. And if it happens to be an election year, everything is game, including the Oscars. On Monday, the Congress claimed credit for some of the country’s recent achievements, including Slumdog Millionaire’s success. "All this has been possible because of the conducive environment and good governance of the UPA," party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi

Congress claims Slumdog credit

Mohamed Nasheed popularly known as Anni has been elected as the Next President of Maldives. He has bagged 54.04% of votes as per the provisional results of the Runoff Elections in Maldives.

The runoff elections of the 2008 presidential elections were contested between Dhivehi Rahyithunge Party (DRP) presidential candidate Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) presidential candidate Mohamed Nasheed (Anni). Atolls Minister Ahmed Thasmeen Ali contested the runoff as the running mate of DRP’s candidate. Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik, chairperson of the Maldives National Congress, contested the runoff elections as the running mate of MDP coalition’s candidate.

The election results shows that the people of Maldives were desperately looking for a new President. MDP was backed by all the other contestant who had contested for the first phase of elections.

Today the final and crucial election for the President of Maldives has started at 09.00am and will go till 08.30pm. The contestants are the President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party, DRP, Mohamed Nasheed, Anni of the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party, MDP.

The counting of votes will start as soon as the voting is over. The first phase of elections was on the 8th of October in which none of the candidates got the 50% mark and so the run off elections were called.

I will be posting live updates on elections, so follow me on Twitter

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Today is the last day for the Campaign for the Presidential Polls in Maldives. This is a much awaited historical event for Maldives as this is the first ever multi-party elections in Maldives.

In the first round of elections none of the candidates got more than 51% votes, so this has gone to a Run Off elections. The candidates for the Run-Off Elections are Existing President, Gayoom from DRP and Mohammed Nashid (Anni) of MDP. In the last elections results where showing President Gayoom as the most popular candidate and Anni as the second one. Hopefully the results should be out by the afternoon of 29th October.

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I was just moving around today as its Friday and Off day for me and took some pictures of the campaigning for the Presidential elections in Maldives. The elections are to happen on the 28th October, just 4 days left. The campaigning is at the peak, you will find interviews, press releases, allegations, going on VTV and DhiTV.

This is the final Run Off elections for the President of Maldives and is very crucial.

MDP campaigning, vehicles and large number of Maldivian citizens are spending lots of time and money for this election, which is the first multi-party election in the history of Maldives.

At Orchid Magu in Male’

Something interesting, I could not understand what is written, but I can see the picture of Sai Baba, a worshiped God for Indians. If somebody can translate this, it would be appreciated.

I will be updating the Election Results as soon as the counting starts on twitter, so follow me on Twitter.

Both the candidates contesting for the Maldives Presidential Election are busy with election campaigns. Every night we can find some experts talking about their candidate and lots of supporters participating the campaign meetings. Campaigns are telecasted live on the television. In VTV, we usually find campaigns meeting of Anni.

The Run Off Elections will be held on the 28th October 2008. The candidates are the Existing President, Gayoom and Mohamed Nashid (Anni).

The run off elections in Maldives has been changed to October 28th from October 29th as the O Level examinations are to be held on 29th. The schools are used for the elections so it will be difficult to organize the election when the exams are going on.

The Election Commission informed that the runoff presidential elections will be held on the Tuesday 28 October 2008 from 9am and 8pm.