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  <title><![CDATA['Caste in politics has been a channel of mobility']]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/20/spec-caste-is-still-important-in-india.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA['Why would the Bahujan Samaj Party nominate a Gujjar to fight from South Delhi and the BJP respond by nominating another Gujjar from the same seat?']]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:20:37 +0530</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA['MLAs  &amp;  MPs better think beyond caste']]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/20/spec-mla-mps-better-think-beyond-caste.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[In 2007, Mayawati won extensively in OBC strongholds and lost in some SC ones — those who voted for her were actually voting someone else out]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:07:07 +0530</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dr Singh knows how to get his way]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/19/loksabhapoll-manmohan-singh-has-ended-indias-strategic-isolationism.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA['Dr Manmohan Singh's contribution is to end the strategic isolationism of India.' K Subrahmanyam, the doyen of India's national security experts, on the prime minister.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 11:02:49 +0530</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why UP is the biggest surprise this election]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/18/loksabhapoll-why-up-is-the-biggest-surprise-this-election1.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[Disaster Mayawati must be a warning signal to the ever growing queue of prime ministerial aspirants.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:59:28 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/18/loksabhapoll-why-up-is-the-biggest-surprise-this-election1.htm</guid>
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  <title><![CDATA[Congress faces stronger Opposition, rising dissent in AP]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/18/loksabhapoll-congress-faces-stronger-opposition-in-ap.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[The Congress performance in Andhra Pradesh in the Lok Sabha poll may have been impressive, but party leaders are worried about the results of the assembly election, which turned out to be below their expectations. Though the Y S Rajasekhar Reddy-led Congress swept back to power, winning 157 seats in the 294-seat assembly, the party failed to secure an absolute majority.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:35:04 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/18/loksabhapoll-congress-faces-stronger-opposition-in-ap.htm</guid>
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  <title><![CDATA[UP's stunning win: Congress will keep both BSP and SP at bay]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/16/loksabhapoll-congress-will-keep-both-bsp-and-sp-away.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[With a stunning tally of 21 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress has stumped each of its political rivals in the country's most important political state -- the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. It will given the Congress leadership the strength to keep both the BSP and SP away from the United Progressive Alliance.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 20:39:15 +0530</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Verdict 2009: Rahul UP and rising]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/16/loksabhapoll-how-rahul-gandhi-planned-congress-triumph.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA['Rahul is not in a hurry. He believes he has time on his side. He wants to fight the battle in the long term, and believes the only way to do it is to reinvent the organisation.']]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 18:05:58 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/16/loksabhapoll-how-rahul-gandhi-planned-congress-triumph.htm</guid>
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  <title><![CDATA[Trinamool agent allegedly bashed up by CPI-M cadre]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/may/14/slide-show-1-video-trinamool-agent-allegedly-bashed-up-by-cpm-cadres.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[Rana Moitra, a Trinamool Congress polling agent, in Kasba, which falls under the Jadavpur constituency in Kolkata was allegedly beaten up by the Communist Party of India-Marxist cadres during the final phase of polling in West Bengal on Wednesday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 15:53:58 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/may/14/slide-show-1-video-trinamool-agent-allegedly-bashed-up-by-cpm-cadres.htm</guid>
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  <title><![CDATA[Will 'winds of change' blow away CPI-M in rural Bengal?]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/11/loksabhapoll-will-winds-of-change-blow-away-cpim.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[Bengal's picture-perfect villages have been home to the hammer-and-sickle for an astounding three decades, but now that the rural idyll is cracking, the Left Front is being forced to confront the sight of the three-petalled symbol of the Trinamool Congress and the sounds of rebel voices rising against its perceptible clout.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2009 18:22:45 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/11/loksabhapoll-will-winds-of-change-blow-away-cpim.htm</guid>
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  <title><![CDATA[Karat's acid test and Left Front's greatest gamble]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/13/loksabhapoll-karats-acid-test-and-lefts-gamble.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[Karat's magnificent effort to launch a national third alternative may simply fall apart. If the Third Front refuses to hold after May 16 and if the CPI-M fares badly in both Bengal and Kerala, the party will substantially lose its bite. If the CPI-M stands firm, however, Karat's party will roar like a lion in Delhi's concrete jungle.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:00:34 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/13/loksabhapoll-karats-acid-test-and-lefts-gamble.htm</guid>
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  <title><![CDATA['There is no Bengal line or Delhi line']]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/12/loksabhapoll-cpim-leader-biman-bose-explains-party-line-on-government-formation.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[The Left party workers are keenly aware that the election for the 15th Lok Sabha is the severest test for the party ever since it took power in Bengal 32 years ago.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:02:49 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/12/loksabhapoll-cpim-leader-biman-bose-explains-party-line-on-government-formation.htm</guid>
  <atom:published xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-05-12T16:02:49+0530</atom:published>
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  <title><![CDATA['I have come here to canvass, not to beg']]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/12/loksabhapoll-constituency-profile-tuticorin-in-tamil-nadu.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[Pollsters say Jayalalithaa will sweep Tamil Nadu, but in Tuticorin she may bite the dust.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 14:07:58 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/12/loksabhapoll-constituency-profile-tuticorin-in-tamil-nadu.htm</guid>
  <atom:published xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-05-12T14:07:58+0530</atom:published>
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  <title><![CDATA['Muslim factor' in Bengal may surprise complacent CPI-M]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/12/loksabhapoll-muslim-factor--in-bengal-may-surprise-complacent-cpim.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[There's more to being elected from Calcutta North than the ability to turn a phrase around different consonants at the same time, and Mohammed Salim is keenly aware of this fact.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 13:43:38 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/12/loksabhapoll-muslim-factor--in-bengal-may-surprise-complacent-cpim.htm</guid>
  <atom:published xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-05-12T13:43:38+0530</atom:published>
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  <title><![CDATA[Don't dismiss Laloo just yet]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/11/loksabhapolls-it-may-be-unwise-to-write-off-laloo-yadav.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[While it is true that the overall situation worsened and the state got deeper into the quagmire of backwardness during the RJD regime, yet the party bags many credits for bringing about a fundamental change in Bihar's society and politics as well.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:30:39 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/11/loksabhapolls-it-may-be-unwise-to-write-off-laloo-yadav.htm</guid>
  <atom:published xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-05-11T09:30:39+0530</atom:published>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bengal poll results will sink or save Left Front]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/11/loksabhapoll-bengal-results-will-sink-or-save-left-front.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[Clearly, there are few states as important as West Bengal with 42 seats, and the all-important question in Kidderpore on Saturday and all other nights in the run-up to May 16 is, will the fabled party machinery of the Left Front hold its 35 seats in the Lok Sabha?]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 08:53:29 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/11/loksabhapoll-bengal-results-will-sink-or-save-left-front.htm</guid>
  <atom:published xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-05-11T08:53:29+0530</atom:published>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sikh PM is a big Congress draw in Punjab]]></title> 
  <link>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/08/loksabhapoll-sikh-pm-is-a-big-congress-draw-in-punjab.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[The PM's popularity in Amritsar, where he arrived with his family as a refugee from Gah in the Chakwal district of Pakistan's West Punjab during partition in 1947, is high not only because he is a Sikh. He is also seen as a man of immense integrity who is devoted to the country, has given India a global reputation in several ways, including the nuclear deal, and has ensured significant and sustained economic growth.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 11:17:12 +0530</pubDate>
  <guid>http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/may/08/loksabhapoll-sikh-pm-is-a-big-congress-draw-in-punjab.htm</guid>
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