Otherwise Labour will enter the election heading for defeat, and deserving to lose.
The Wall Street supporters of Republican candidate Mitt Romney are making a last fund-raising push as the election heads into its final three weeks.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, after prevailing in a squeaker of an election, headed to Paris for Alsatian fare and Côtes du Rhône wine.
When Mahdi Karroubi, another pro-reform candidate in the June election, headed for the prayers, plainclothes hard-line supporters attacked him, shoving him and knocking his turban to the ground, witnesses said.
The influential Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft has blamed David Cameron for the party's failure to open up an opinion poll lead over Labour, as the election heads for a draw that could put Ed Miliband in Downing Street.
"These people [the Gandhis] have destroyed three generations in Amethi," Modi, 63, the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), said as India's marathon election heads into its final stretch.
Moldova's presidential election heads for a runoff vote on November 13.
As the US presidential election heads towards the final stretch, voter fraud and voter registration issues have hit the headlines.
The reform will also enlarge parliament's powers and set up an independent body to supervise elections, headed by a non-aligned public figure.
By comparison, before Republicans took back control of Congress in 1994, they were the ones winning the key special elections heading into the midterms, especially a high-profile one in Kentucky.
