The National Election Watch (NEW) is a nationwide campaign comprising of more than 1200 NGOs and other citizen led organizations working together on electoral reforms, improving democracy and governance in India. The campaign is active in almost all states of India and has been doing election watches for the State Assembly and Lok Sabha Elections since 2002. Among others, the Election Watch activities comprise of collecting data in the affidavits filed by the contesting candidates in the elections, collating this information in an easy way for the voters to understand and then disseminating this information via media and other channels. The campaign enables voters to know about the candidates contesting from their constituency and other electoral process information.

Once the data is collected, the focus is more on dissemination of the data through several activities, which can take the form of press conferences, rallies, meet the candidates programs or any other similar programmes.

Please visit the following websites, for more information:

• For Election Watch activites, contacts and reports - adrindia.org
• For details on various contesting candidates or MPs/MLAs - myneta.info

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) is a Non-Political, Non-Partisan and a Non-Governmental Organization whose PIL filed in Dec 1999 culminated in a Supreme Court order on Mar 13, 2003 requiring disclosure of criminal, financial and educational background of all contesting candidates. Since then ADR has been doing Election Watches in almost all State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. ADR continues to works towards strengthening democracy and governance in India by focusing on fair and transparent electoral and political processes. To know more about ADR please visit: www.adrindia.org.

The website myneta.info aims at providing information to citizens of the country regarding contestants during elections (both Lok Sabha and State Assembly) in timely and user- friendly way to enable them to make informed choices. It is taking forward efforts of the National Election Watch campaign to enable people to know their candidates better. This website is the one place to access all the information regarding criminal and financial details of the contestants as declared by them in their affidavits. Users can search for information based on names of candidates, constituency and state. To know more about the background of contestants please visit myneta.info.