India Votes

It's often the case that we like to vote for the right candidate without any partial treatment to any particular party/candidate but fail to do so, as we don't have access to the information to make that informed decision. For all of us, who fall in this category, please have a look at this video..

Few links that one should explore are:-
http://nationalelectionwatch.org/
http://www.myneta.info
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Elections'09 and the youth

Almost all of us have witnessed the charisma of Obama on various news channels, and how he just sweeped the youth of their feet by his inspiring speeches, which finally became the prime reason of his historic victory.

And now it's election time in India. Seeing the results by courting the youth in America, the political parties here have already set their eyes on how to gather more public attention especially of youth. If the 2004 general elections was fought on the platform of the aam admi, then the forthcoming 2009 Lok Sabha elections is going to be all about luring the young voters.

Rahul Gandhi nowadays is going full throttle campaigning Gujrat. Even back here in Delhi, and at many other metropolitan cities, like Bombay and Lucknow huge banners of Rahul Gandhi have been put up alongside bridges or at crossroads. I have also seen some of the other ministers posters like that of Kapil Sibal & Pranab Mukherjee in markets, and other public places.

But the one that has both shocked and impressed me most is the "Advani for PM "campaign. Consider this, Mr. LK Advani, even at 81 years of age is running for the post of prime minister. Now that's something commendable. I doubt if any country had an older prime minister or president than this. He has started trying out weights at a gymnasium :P, launched a personal website(on his 81st bday), chats online to reach out to students.

I usually get these ads on Orkut. And on some digging I found that advertisements similar to these goes to approximately 2000 websites mostly visited by Indians via google adsense. That's quite a lot of easy bucks for google.

Actually, all this is a positive sign. Hopefully political parties will now start taking youth more seriously and won't just play pitiable vote-bank politics after all we comprise approx. 30% of India's population. what's your say?? Cheers!!!.