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Dont let the blockbuster voter turnouts for the recently concluded assembly elections fool you. Numbers for the coming general elections will not be anywhere close. And that worries the chief election commissioner VS Sampath enough to list it as his top challenge, more than even the prospect of poll violence. Voter turnout will be a real challenge, Sampath told Hindustan Times on Friday at a Washington DC think tank event after his first public remarks on the assembly elections. We as the election commission will have to take up a major task as we believe larger voter turnout makes for more meani
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stanley cup must be in by June 1, and the commission will be working backwards from that date to hold the polls staggered over a number of phases. Sampath, who joined the commission in 2009 and became the CEC in 2012, said turnout tends to be lower in national elections compared to assembly polls because of the sheer size of the parliamentary constituencies 鈥?each with around 1.5 million voters. Political mobilisation is more robust in smaller contests. Delhi turnout was 66.10% compared to 57.58% in the last election, Chhattisgarh 77% over 70.34%; MP 72.66% to 69%; Rajasthan 75.65% to 66.49%; and Mizoram 83.41% to 80.42%. This was not solely because of the enthusiasm whipped up about Arvind Kejriwals Aam Aadmi Party, which was contesting only
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Ignoring India s concerns, the United States appears all set to offer Pakistan a $2 billion new military assistance package to figh
nike dunk t extremists, but an India-type civil nuclear deal is not on the cards. HT Image We re not in any discussions with the Pakistanis on civil nuclear cooperation, Frank Ruggiero, deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, told reporters on Tuesday ahead of a three-day Strategic Dialogue with Pakistan. The dialogue led by US Secretary of State Hil
stanley cup lary Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi culminates on Friday. Pakistan s army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani will also take part and hold talks at the Pentagon. The Pentagon and the Pakistani military have been talking about a framework for security assistance, he said. We specifically worked with the Pakistanis over the summer to identify what would be the types of military equipment and so on, That will be a topic of discussion at the strategic dialogue, Ruggiero said declining to spell out details of the proposed aid package. But CNN said the package totals as much as $2 billion over five years. The package will be in the form of financial aid under the American Foreign Military Financing FMF programme, which in turn will help Pakistan purchase weapons and defence equipment like helicopter gunships
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