As the campaigning closes down for the 24th April round of polling, the campaign would be over for almost more than 2/3rd constituencies in this general elections. 24th April will witness the largest number of constituencies going on to poll.

1984 will always go down as the year of bad memories. The massacre of innocent Sikhs following the assassination of Indira Gandhi remains a black spot on Indian democracy. The fact that the innocents can be killed in thousands is terrible. What is worse is that the guilty went unpunished.

The Lok Pal appointment controversy refuses to die. The UPA government has framed rules under the Lok Pal Act. The rules prima facie run contrary to the Act. This is already a subject matter of a challenge before the Supreme Court.

The former West Bengal’s Governor deserves to be complimented for his comments on the Central Bureau of Investigation. Gopal Gandhi was invited to deliver the DP Kohli Memorial lecture which is annually organized by the CBI.

Narendra Modi, the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate, in an interview to the television news agency made a significant comment. The next government will function on positive agenda and not be vindictive.

A leading news channel Monday gave the results of their tracker opinion poll.  This poll gave to the BJP 226 seats in parliament and to the NDA an absolute majority of 275 seats.