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Websites
in Kerala have latest information on past
One claims Idukki candidate is still state EC
Biju Govind
Kochi, May
1: Our sympathies if you are following the Kerala elections
on state government-run websites. For if meaty content is what you
wanted consider these sites as good as dead.
Here’s why: Information Kerala Mission’s keralaelection.com
has just a scroll text: ‘‘This site is under construction.
We’ll be back in a week’s time with widespread information.’’
There are two other links — IT and Kids and IT@Palakkad —
no way connected to the polls.
The state’s Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT)
has created electionkerala.net. The site gives you details about
anything and everything but the election scene — an education
seminar conducted in December 26-30 last year, information on school
curriculum or IT related programmes.
C-DIT registrar-in-charge G. Jayaraj assures the site will be updated
as soon as they get the required data. ‘‘We will most
probably do it in a phased manner in a couple of days,’’
he says. If you thought the official websites of the Election Commission
of India — eci.gov.in and india-election.com — would be
the saving grace, consider this: The site has details of previous
elections in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Kerala
and not a line on the countdown to May 10.
The Elections 2001 page of india-election.com has statistics of
previous Assembly elections and General Elections held in 1996:
highlights, performance of political parties, profiles of constituencies
and candidates, polling stations, number of women candidates and
results.
Seckerala.org wants its viewers to believe that M.S. Joseph, who
resigned as State Election Commission to contest the Idukki seat,
is still holding office. For your general knowledge, it has webpages
on the last panchayat polls with partywise break-up of seats in
the gram, block and district level.
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