Election fever is spreading like never before amongst the Indian media online. With the 15th Indian general elections scheduled for April-May, Indian digital media companies have launched "Election special" websites to track the polls with maps and statistics, blogs by public figures, RSS updates and interactive features. Here are some of the websites for the season: In India... Yahoo India launched in.elections.Yahoo.com to provide latest news updates and track the election schedule through the states. Users can also use it to write their own manifesto, participate in opinion polls, share their views on various leaders and constituencies and read columns on politics sourced from newspapers like Indian Express and Hindustan Times. The site promises more features soon - manifesto comparisons of various political parties and comic strips. The Hindu's Elections 2009 microsite offers a selection of articles, interviews where users can comment. It also has documents, statistics and graphs related to the elections but why have they have been put up just as plain-vanilla downloads rather than displayed to viewers? Probably the most comprehensive and one-stop shop site on the topic is IBN Live's IBNPolitics.com. It offers RSS updates on election news, blogs by politicos such as Yeddyurappa and even personalities such as Nandan Nilkenani, Sri Sri Ravishankar and Kiran Bedi. A new section called Video debate on the site has been able to entice responses from webcam-enabled visitors on manifestos, Varun Gandhi and the third front. Allowing them to bypass registrations and directly comment was a smart move by…
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