R K Misra's online initiative ChangeIndia.in. Runs on Joomla and uses Fireboard a forum module for Joomla. The site is hosted at Y! India and E-mail at Google. Changeindia.in doesn't have clean URLs its kind of hard to have custom paths defined in Joomla. No candidates announced for Karnataka elections. RK is a great believer in Private Public Partnership's potential to change India amongst other things he advocates.

lok-paritran.org uses Drupal as the CMS for its site and uses Drupal's in-built forums and looks like they have Gallery integrated into their drupal installation. Though they have clean urls they are not taking full advantage of Drupal's ability to define custom URLs and the clean URLs don't extend all the way to the Forums. Its not clear to me what exactly is Lok-Paritran's agenda, lots of high sounding philosophy and no practical agenda un-like RK's PPP mantra. And shudder they use a M$ Word document to announce their Bangalore candidate list.

Funny how many of us think that Joomla is a pretty CMS but drupal is a workhorse with lots of features and a clean codebase. It would be interesting to draw conclusions about politics of people who use Joomla, Drupal or raw PHP :-)

Jaago.in is built using PHP and shudder these guys are appealing in a very demagogic fashion to the middle class's insecurities and sound downright populist with Rs. 2/KWh electricity provisioning they are promising. There is no candidate list they have announced for Bangalore yet. Their frontpage boasts of a typical GOI like site welcome screen with a enter into link and a flash object.

Wahjava says: so in next elections, no need of polls, just check out the CMS of their site, and compare it on some CMS ranking site, one whose CMS has higher rank should be declared winner :P