Please Please vote!

To the folks from TN who read this blog : Please vote! Reading blogs and commenting on the bad state of affairs will not help much unless you go ahead and cast your vote.

It's raining freebies in India polls - A BBC Report. I was ROTFL on reading the following quote by DMK's economic advisor P Naganathan defending the free TV scheme.

TV is not for entertainment. It is for watching educational programmes

Do people really make quotes like these with a straight face?

TN Elections 06

In case you are one of those like me, trying to get every possible info coming out of TN regarding the elections, then the following links should quench your thirst for information :)
Idly Vadai
Sambhar Mafia
Chennai Today
Arasiyal Talk
Hot Machi Hot
All about politics

Do let me know in case there are some other related blogs out there.

AIADMK has an up-to-date website dedicated for the 2006 Assembly Elections. [Doesn't look like an official one though!]

Anand Sridharan writes about his views on the government planning to raise the caste-based reservation quota for higher education. This is one of the issues that i have a strong opinion about, and i agree 100% with Anand on this.

All about politics has a decent summary of Jaya's second term.

Compared to her first term (1991-96), Jayalalithaa Jayaram's second term was more reasonable. This term had its own share of controversies, personal vendettas, stupidities, blame games, mismanagement, prostrations and what not. But it also had its own share of constructive elements as well. If Jayalalithaa manages to negotiate the incumbency factor & manages to scrape through, this writer feels that it would be the case of people feeling "give the devil its due".

Barkha Dutt has written a nice column at ndtv.com titled "Will middle India speak up?"

Fifty-nine years after India was born, in a country where there are more Muslims than there are in Pakistan, we are still asking Muslims to wear their nationalism like an identity card; we are still asking for proof of loyalty. This is not their failure. It is ours.

I couldn't agree more.