Other than the actual Lok Sabha elections many interesting things keep happening on the sidelines, a case in point being these two polling officials who have gone viral on the Internet. They have gained sudden popularity and are receiving friend requests on social media and are being approached by total strangers for selfies and pictures. […]

All India Survey On Governance Issues And Voting Behavior, conducted by the Association For Democratic Reforms gauged voting behavior of nearly 2.7 lakh respondents. The main aim behind this survey was not to predict the poll outcome or encourage any political propaganda. But to asses the voters’ expectations and priorities as far as the government is […]

The state of Uttar Pradesh has population density and diversity, highest number of Rajya Sabha seats, 912 women for every 1000 men and memories of Badaun which linger. What it also has are women who have exercised their voting rights in a democracy to heavily influence the future of our country. In India’s most populous […]

A 35-year-old woman from Pakistan, who is not allowed to cast her vote there as she belongs to a persecuted community, managed to exercise her franchise for the first time in the Punjab elections this time. Tahira Maqbool had got married to a man hailing from Gurdaspur’s Qadian town in 2003 and got her Indian citizenship in. April 2016.

Gujarat, which will go to polls either at the end of this year or early next year, has few first-time women voters. In the 18-19 age bracket, women voters only form 37 per cent of the 4.48 lakh first-time voters. According to the records by Election Commission, compared to 2.81 lakh male voters, only 1.66 lakh […]