The Gandhi voted in the fourth round of Indian elections electoral

New Delhi, 7 may 2009. - The entire Gandhi family in New Delhi today deposited their ballots in the fourth and penultimate phase of Indian elections, which took place under intense heat and some isolated incidents of violence.
Schools were closed at 17.00 local (11.30 GMT), according to the Electoral Commission, ten hours after opening.
This time, the polls were called Indians 94.6 million registered in 85 districts of the northern states of Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Kashmir, Rajasthan and Uttar, in eastern Bengal and the capital territory of Delhi.
In the Indian capital, cast their votes the leader of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi and her two children Priyanka and Rahul, although both the mother and the offspring attend as candidates for two rural districts in the north.
Sonia Gandhi came accompanied by the head of Government delhi, Sheila Dikshit, and both showed the cameras his index fingers with indelible ink signal officers to mark the ballot box to prevent voter fraud.
His son Rahul, who many say as a future prime minister of India, came to school under a cloud chamber and given an opportunity to respond with a "we'll see" to a voter who asked him point blank if this hypothetical play either position, the agency IANS.
More trouble was the head of the Electoral Commission, Navin Chawla, who had to wait and fight in New Delhi in short-sleeved shirt, to cast their vote because the home address contained in the voter list was incorrect.
"You only vote for a candidate or party, is also a vote for democracy. Like an ocean is made ​​up of drops of water, democracy is made ​​for every vote, "Chawla said after casting his vote, according to PTI.
"There's nothing exciting, except that, after five years, you have to press a button," he told Efe Gagandeep Singh delhi student, who voted in a million-electronic machines ready for these elections.
The streets of Delhi woke deserted, with shops, offices and entertainment venues closed because the government declared a public holiday, after two days in which also banned the consumption of alcohol.
As in previous election days, the heat of summer is having an impact: two people died from heat stroke while waiting in line to vote in the town of Midnapore (Bengal), where several violent incidents took place.
According to a police source quoted by PTI, a group of rioters threw a homemade bomb to a voter who was returning home in the demarcation of Jangipur, presented by Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
And in a village in Rajasthan, police shot and killed one person when a mob tried to steal an electronic voting machine.
The elections were divided into five phases for security reasons, which did not prevent 21 people were killed in Maoist guerrilla attacks or separatist groups during the first two stages, 16 and 23 April.
After the fourth round of voting, are 457 the number of seats already decided, of the 543 that make up the national parliament.
Subject to strong competition and no clear favorite, the various parties have resorted to an aggressive strategy that has included the use of new technologies in their dispute for each vote of the 714 million voters to the polls.
In the network, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (the party of Gandhi), the opposition LK Advani, leader or "Dalits" or untouchable Mayawati curious star athletic games where they compete for victory, ignoring the fact that the two former having 76 and 81.
And there are many unsolicited text messages that make specific requests to vote for this or that party, or calls for participation as they did last week several film stars yet, in due course, abstained.
"Run, run to vote. Voting ends at five o'clock. India needs your vote. Remorderá will not vote in consciousness forever. Do not be a Pappu (a popular character inelegant). Have fun, "read today one of those messages.