Dead and Standing for Election
Lal Bihari, the founder and head of the Association of Dead People — and winner of the 2003 Ig Nobel Peace Prize — is standing for elective office. See a video news report here.
See a further news report about it here.
And that’s not all. As head of the Association, Lal Bihari is encouraging other members to show a little life. One of them, Shivdutt Yadav, is standing for election against India’s prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee. See details here.
Prime Minister Vajpayee is himself an Ig Nobel winner, having been awarded an Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.