2019 General Elections News and Discussion

[vijayk]

Between every phase my BP is increasing and becoming more pessimistic and doubtful. Elections are too long

[Singha]

indonesia just conducted a 1 day election combined national and state for 150 mil voters.
but due to paper ballots and long hours of work managing the process some 150 electoral workers died.

imo this month long circus conducted by EC is way too long.

the states that need central paramils in strength are JnK, kerala, WB, parts of UP-Bihar not all, chattisgarh and jharkhand due to naxal , commie and lathait threats. there is hardly any electoral violence in other states....the country has moved on.

so conduct in rest of states in 1 day and use the state reserve police there.

on day2 conduct elections in these states by massing of central paramils.

[Singha]

Aadit Kapadia આદિત કાપડિયા
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Apr 27

Aadit Kapadia આદિત કાપડિયા Retweeted Azmi Shabana

This is a perfect example of how leftists operate. Campaign for a communist, visit/work in a capitalist country and then come home and vote for a socialist congress (assuming that considering Ms Azmi has been advocating for congress in Mumbai). The irony is just incredible.

Aadit Kapadia આદિત કાપડિયા added,
Azmi Shabana
Verified account @AzmiShabana
On my way to Los Angeles straight from Begusarai . Will be there for less than half a day! 50 hrs of travel for a 2 hr meeting.Will rush back to be in time to vote.

[vimal]

We must give credit to Congress for all the silent surgical strikes at night.
This is the reason that Pappu always was saying "This morning, I got up at night". He personally was watching the strikes on his 21" Onida TV in between watching Chota Bheem.

[Hari Nair]

We must give credit to Congress for all the silent surgical strikes at night.

As I understand those earlier actions were limited to just raids on neighbouring posts across the LC. Extremely shallow and very localised and cannot be compared in scale and depth to the coordinated Surgical Strikes. These Congress chaps as usual are exaggerating Big Time by pulling such numbers out of their topis!
Some of them are not even remotely aware of military matters, others were in deep slumber, they now appear to be bleating in desperation.

[sanjayc]

Ok have to openly state Google News etc have either been gamed by UPA or been purchased.

Typed in UP BJP and *all* news is from UPA and anti-BJP from usual suspects. I have to dig around via Google search to get any contrary data. Amazing.

Google News experience has degraded. The results are clearly being gamed. Earlier I used to search for India-related news and it was a pleasure to get so many news links about India from all over the world. Now, same articles keep hanging for days on search results and there is staleness to the results. Most of these articles that keep hanging in search results are critical of India or BJP or Hindus, or written by Goras to promote a patronizing western point of view about India. So, I have begun to avoid Google news and have started going directly to websites of newspapers . Google will pay heavily for this, as some other competitor will emerge giving better news experience to readers. Currently Google thinks it is invincible, but decline will start if search results keep getting manipulated like this and readers will move away to better news search engines.

[williams]

We must give credit to Congress for all the silent surgical strikes at night.

As I understand those earlier actions were limited to just raids on neighbouring posts across the LC. Extremely shallow and very localised and cannot be compared in scale and depth to the coordinated Surgical Strikes. These Congress chaps as usual are exaggerating Big Time by pulling such numbers out of their topis!
Some of them are not even remotely aware of military matters, others were in deep slumber, they now appear to be bleating in desperation.

Actually they have zero credibility and these statements is not going to help a voter to change his/her mind. It only gives Modi to rip them apart in his speeches.

[kit]

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/ ... 0710837623

To investigate how search engine users manipulate the rankings of search results. Search engines employ different ranking methods in order to display the “best” results first. One of the ranking methods is PageRank, where the number of links pointing to the page influences its rank. The “anchor text,” the clickable text of the hypertext link is another “ingredient” in the ranking method. There are a number of cases where the public challenged the Google's ranking, by creating a so‐called “Google bomb” – creating links to pages they wanted to be highly ranked for given query. Google is chosen as the search engine, because it is currently by far the most popular search engine.

Design/methodology/approach
– PageRank, one of the major parameters of Google's ranking algorithm is described, and the author explains how this algorithm is exploited by communities of users to promote a certain web page for a specific query. This process is called “Google bombing.” Recent reaction of Google to this phenomenon is also described.

Findings
– Specific examples of “accomplished Google bombs” show that the public is able to manipulate search results.

Originality/value
– Google, instead of being an unobtrusive information retrieval tool has become highly influential in the web scenery. Some users pay for search engine optimization, while others utilize the power of the crowd to influence Google's rankings. This paper supports the claims of Introna and Nissenbaum regarding the power of search engines.

[mmasand]

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/ ... 0710837623

To investigate how search engine users manipulate the rankings of search results. Search engines employ different ranking methods in order to display the “best” results first. One of the ranking methods is PageRank, where the number of links pointing to the page influences its rank. The “anchor text,” the clickable text of the hypertext link is another “ingredient” in the ranking method. There are a number of cases where the public challenged the Google's ranking, by creating a so‐called “Google bomb” – creating links to pages they wanted to be highly ranked for given query. Google is chosen as the search engine, because it is currently by far the most popular search engine.

Design/methodology/approach
– PageRank, one of the major parameters of Google's ranking algorithm is described, and the author explains how this algorithm is exploited by communities of users to promote a certain web page for a specific query. This process is called “Google bombing.” Recent reaction of Google to this phenomenon is also described.

Findings
– Specific examples of “accomplished Google bombs” show that the public is able to manipulate search results.

Originality/value
– Google, instead of being an unobtrusive information retrieval tool has become highly influential in the web scenery. Some users pay for search engine optimization, while others utilize the power of the crowd to influence Google's rankings. This paper supports the claims of Introna and Nissenbaum regarding the power of search engines.

Insightful paper.

[Mukesh.Kumar]

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/ ... 0710837623

To investigate how search engine users manipulate the rankings of search results. Search engines employ different ranking methods in order to display the “best” results first. One of the ranking methods is PageRank, where the number of links pointing to the page influences its rank. The “anchor text,” the clickable text of the hypertext link is another “ingredient” in the ranking method. There are a number of cases where the public challenged the Google's ranking, by creating a so‐called “Google bomb” – creating links to pages they wanted to be highly ranked for given query. Google is chosen as the search engine, because it is currently by far the most popular search engine.

Design/methodology/approach
– PageRank, one of the major parameters of Google's ranking algorithm is described, and the author explains how this algorithm is exploited by communities of users to promote a certain web page for a specific query. This process is called “Google bombing.” Recent reaction of Google to this phenomenon is also described.

Findings
– Specific examples of “accomplished Google bombs” show that the public is able to manipulate search results.

Originality/value
– Google, instead of being an unobtrusive information retrieval tool has become highly influential in the web scenery. Some users pay for search engine optimization, while others utilize the power of the crowd to influence Google's rankings. This paper supports the claims of Introna and Nissenbaum regarding the power of search engines.

How do i download the full paper?

[Snehashis]

General (R) VK Singh was unaware of those surgical strikes and even mentioned Coupta in his tweet.

https://twitter.com/AnupamUncl/status/1 ... 3856628739

http://prntscr.com/nk8deo

Edit : Original tweet - Congress has a habit of lying. Will you please let me know which ‘So called Surgical Strike’ are you attributing to my tenure as COAS. Am sure you must have hired some Coupta to invent another story . - https://twitter.com/Gen_VKSingh/status/ ... 1317363712

[mmasand]

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/ ... 0710837623

To investigate how search engine users manipulate the rankings of search results. Search engines employ different ranking methods in order to display the “best” results first. One of the ranking methods is PageRank, where the number of links pointing to the page influences its rank. The “anchor text,” the clickable text of the hypertext link is another “ingredient” in the ranking method. There are a number of cases where the public challenged the Google's ranking, by creating a so‐called “Google bomb” – creating links to pages they wanted to be highly ranked for given query. Google is chosen as the search engine, because it is currently by far the most popular search engine.

Design/methodology/approach
– PageRank, one of the major parameters of Google's ranking algorithm is described, and the author explains how this algorithm is exploited by communities of users to promote a certain web page for a specific query. This process is called “Google bombing.” Recent reaction of Google to this phenomenon is also described.

Findings
– Specific examples of “accomplished Google bombs” show that the public is able to manipulate search results.

Originality/value
– Google, instead of being an unobtrusive information retrieval tool has become highly influential in the web scenery. Some users pay for search engine optimization, while others utilize the power of the crowd to influence Google's rankings. This paper supports the claims of Introna and Nissenbaum regarding the power of search engines.

How do i download the full paper?

PM me with your email.

[Singha]

recalling the 8 victims of a massacre 16 years ago on may1

https://twitter.com/chathootti/status/1 ... 9519064071

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5iL32-XkAQ0cjv.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5iL4YtWAAIMoB2.jpg

[kit]

How do i download the full paper?

PM me with your email.

pretty much sure this manipulation of google search was Sam Pitrodas idea

as well as surprised the Modi camp is not paying attention to it

[jamwal]

How many seats will BJP win in New Delhi this time ? My guess 7.

I have to use this SEO thing in my line of work. Technology keeps on changing and getting a website ranked higher for some search query is dependent on a lot of factors which is not fully made clear by Google. Just high number of backlinks is not a great way of doing that. It also takes some time and lots of work. Seems like Thungbandhan media and parties have spent considerable manpower and resources in promoting their agenda online.

[chetak]

General (R) VK Singh was unaware of those surgical strikes and even mentioned Coupta in his tweet.

https://twitter.com/AnupamUncl/status/1 ... 3856628739

http://prntscr.com/nk8deo

Edit : Original tweet - Congress has a habit of lying. Will you please let me know which ‘So called Surgical Strike’ are you attributing to my tenure as COAS. Am sure you must have hired some Coupta to invent another story . - https://twitter.com/Gen_VKSingh/status/ ... 1317363712

[vijayk]

Akhilesh Sharma अखिलेश शर्मा
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I am surprised that some journalists say this is a no wave election or voters are silent. May be they are not meeting with real people on the ground. For such journalist friends, May 23rd can be a shocker!

Abhigyan Prakash
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Replying to @akhileshsharma1
In UP for sure there is a remarkable turnaround for BJP only n only because of Modi...infact it has reduced the negativity around Yogi so this is BJP s big advantage here...I am writing only for UP as you know because of my special series I am on my focused on UP thru my travels

anyone knows what is negativity about yogi?

[Mukesh.Kumar]

How do i download the full paper?

PM me with your email.

Saar can't PM on forum. Could you share your mail Id?

[Mukesh.Kumar]

How do i download the full paper?

PM me with your email.

Saar can't PM on forum. Could you share your mail Id?

[mmasand]

PM me with your email.

Saar can't PM on forum. Could you share your mail Id?

Here is the link to the paper: https://we.tl/t-93udRHVmtV

It will expire in 2 days. Anyone should be able to open it.

[chetak]

this should have been in someone's election manifesto

we have helped to radicalize enough traitors by foolishly allowing public funerals in cashmere even of foreign and paki terrorists

bodies should be disposed of quietly and without fuss in unmarked graves or better still simply cremated. After all, "terrorists" have "no religion", right

RVAIDYA2000 @rvaidya2000

Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka
Terrorists bodies disposed off without any ritualas--India to learn:)) RT

8:46 pm - 3 May 2019



twitter

Stupid & weak Indian Govts allowed huge funeral possession of terrorists Burhan Wani& Yakub Memon , only to insult the nation &it's Armed forces.

[vijayk]

Since voting in all BJP strongholds and currently BJP won seats, lot of negative campaign being launched by PAPPU/IndiaToday/NDTV/IBN/Google/FB/Twitter/Economist/BBC. scary what future holds for democracies with terrorist infested left media becoming openly anti-semtic, anti-Hindu and pro Terrorist

[chetak]

[chetak]

[Singha]

https://www.aninews.in/news/national/po ... a4.twitter

amit shah claims bjp will win 73-74 in UP but not 72

so either it will be big letdown or the final prep of operation uranus is done for phase5,6,7 with generals shah and yogi shock armies poised north and south of lutyens to cross the yamuna from east and link up @ dhaula kuan to complete the pincer.

marshal modi stares impassively through his telescope from his bunker at the dark front ahead while in the forests, thousands of artillery and katyushas are packed into every clearing, their long barrels pointing west and crews standing by near mountains of ammo boxes...1000s of laden inflatable rafts and motor boats line the forests on edge of the river, tense men cradling their kit. in a holding pattern behind the nord and south fronts, swarms of IL2 sturmoviks gather like nightjars and owls in the dark skies.

the clock strikes 7am and he takes a deep breath and utters one command - "now... comrades now!"

[Nishn]

Could some one please tell me Would there be any impact on voter turn out for seats/polling stations due to the cyclone that just happened ?
Hope it doesn't negatively impact predicted outcomes for the incumbents.

[chetak]

twitter

Courtesy @INCIndia this sickular demon ZNaik had the audacity to lecture IAS probationers in Massourie as a guest faculty. Courtesy @narendramodi he cannot dare rest his foot on the pious Indian Soil.

[vnms]

Google is filled with liberals all the way to the top. They actively go after conservatives. They have demonetized scores of conservative channels on YouTube on the slightest pretexts. At the same time, they ignore whatever antifa says.

They do manipulate their search algorithms. They are constantly tweaking it.

[Lilo]

Lilo ji, does ritam have a website equivalent, I would prefer a browser based option. right now I depend on BR and twitter.

No Rahul ji it doesnt have a desktop version as of now.
You can run it in emulator extension like ARC Welder to run it in chrome (it came out ok when i tested in ARC Welder).

[VikramA]

on twitter from a non political normal neutral observer:
As more and more journalists reporting from the ground are signaling the existence of a Modi wave, the Lutyens cabal has slowly started moving towards the center from their left lib positions. While the mad prince blabbers more weird stuff, distancing has begun.

[chetak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzvux8psylQ


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[Peregrine]

Missiles maketh the man

Nationalist fervour is likely to secure a second term for Narendra Modi

His polls improved after he launched a bombing raid on Pakistan

The scale of an Indian general election can be hard to grasp. With close to 900m registered voters and 1M polling stations, it is as if every country in the European Union, plus America, Canada and Mexico, as well as Japan and South Korea, were all to vote together. Yet the process generally runs smoothly. The voting this time started on April 11th and is divided into seven phases, to reduce the burden on election personnel and police. The use of nearly 4M portable, battery-operated voting machines will make it possible to tally all the votes on a single day, May 23rd.

The counting may run with symphonic precision, but the rest of the proceedings are pure cacophony. With 8,000 candidates from more than 2,000 parties vying for seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, this is less a national election than 543 separate battles. Rules on election spending are loose and often flouted. Estimates of the cost of this year’s contest are as high as $10bn. Since mid-March the Election Commission has seized some $500m of cash, gold, drugs and alcohol it suspects were intended for bribing voters.

The daunting cost of entry gives candidates with high profiles or deep pockets an advantage. Small wonder that so many are former film and sports stars, gangsters, fat cats or dynasts. The expense of contesting also inflates hopes among poor voters: in one southern state, villagers recently besieged a party office, furious that a middleman who had “sold” their votes paid them only 500 rupees ($7) out of the 2,000 he had pocketed from the candidate for each vote. High costs may also serve to raise the heat: in the past few weeks candidates have variously accused each other of theft, treason, bigotry, support for terrorism and a host of other sins.



Along with scale and intensity, this election packs suspense. India’s first-past-the-post system allows a seat to be won with well under half of the vote, provided other candidates do even less well. Five years ago the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) converted a 31% vote share into a tidy 52% of seats, while its big rival, Congress, squeezed a paltry 8% of seats out of its 19% of votes (see chart). Wild swings are possible: at the last election, in the country’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, had the bjp’s two biggest rivals, the Bahujan Samaj Party (bsp) and the Samajwadi Party (sp) joined forces, they would have cut the BJP’s seat tally there by nearly half, stripping away its majority. Chastened, the pair, which represent two different slices of the lower castes, are now in alliance.

Excepting astrologers, Indians understandably tend to be wary of political predictions. In the past three general elections, professional pollsters have fallen wide of the mark. Still, there is consensus about the broader outcomes of the contest. No one expects the stars to align so perfectly for Narendra Modi, the prime minister, as they did in 2014, when the BJP won 282 seats on its own. Everyone expects the rival Congress—the only other truly national party—to rise from its dismal 44 seats, but still to remain a distant second. Most expect regional parties, including the bsp and sp, to take about a third of the seats.

Given the advantages he enjoys, Mr Modi is widely tipped to win. The prime minister himself is a talented and tireless campaigner, delivering relentlessly on-message blasts of boosterism mixed with searing swipes at his enemies. Another leg-up comes from having vastly more money. Some of this is unaccountable, but one measure is the value of donations via “electoral bonds”. Since this vehicle for anonymous political gifts was created by the BJP in the name of “transparency” last year, some 95% of all bonds have gone to the ruling party.

Being in power also helps. As elections approached, Mr Modi’s opponents have found themselves targeted by tax raids or police probes. Midway through voting the home ministry has suddenly decided to respond to a public query, dating from 2015, questioning the citizenship of Rahul Gandhi, whose family has led the Congress party for five generations and India for much of the time since independence. Meanwhile, a government programme to compensate small farmers, introduced in February, miraculously placed cash in their accounts in time for the vote. To be fair, some other parties have been just as crass: West Bengal, run by the fiercely anti-BJP Trinamool Congress, has blocked leaders from the rival party from landing helicopters on “its” turf.

Despite holding so many cards, Mr Modi had begun to look vulnerable earlier this year. Congress appeared to rise from the dead in December, toppling bjp governments in local elections in three states across central India. Fatigue with Mr Modi was growing, as well as anger among such important groups as farmers, small traders, minorities and the better-educated. The lapdog media grew noticeably less fawning. There was talk of opposition parties banding together under Mr Gandhi in an all-out bid to beat the BJP.

But the winds then shifted again, this time in Mr Modi’s favour. On February 14th 20-year-old Adil Ahmad Dar ploughed his bomb-laden car into a convoy of paramilitary police in the disputed state of Jammu & Kashmir, killing 40 of them. The attack, claimed by a Pakistan-based terror group, spawned a surge of national emotion that crested two weeks later, when Mr Modi ordered the retaliatory bombing of an alleged terror base deep inside Pakistan.

Mr Modi has mercilessly milked nationalist sentiment, threatening to rain missiles on the enemy in a “night of killing” and scorning his opponents as wobbly-kneed defeatists. Although many Indians, especially those far from the border with Pakistan, find local issues more pressing, the unrelenting bombast has flummoxed Mr Modi’s opponents. Instead of coalescing, they have drifted apart. If the BJP and its closest allies fail to win a majority, he will almost certainly be better placed than Mr Gandhi to court a clutch of regional parties to form a coalition. “If this election were about the fundamentals, Modi and the BJP would be in a pickle,” says Milan Vaishnav of Carnegie, a think-tank. “But given Modi’s popularity, the security dimension and the opposition’s foibles, my sense is the bjp has found a way to make lemonade out of lemons.”

Cheers

[Manish_Sharma]

Kejriwal sets up another "being slapped" session for himself in Delhi Karampura... desperate times demand desperate measures

[vijayk]

These morons will be crapping all over on May 23

Translation - all the pundits will get a shock of their life

VDPAssociates

इन सब राजनीतिक पंडितों के आँख तो मई 23 को ही खुलेंगे .चौंकाने वाले नतीजे जो आने वाले है
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Akhilesh Sharma अखिलेश शर्मा
@akhileshsharma1

I am surprised that some journalists say this is a no wave election or voters are silent. May be they are not meeting with real people on the ground. For such journalist friends, May 23rd can be a shocker!!

[abhijitm]

Kejriwal's slapped-me drama begins

[fanne]

where where please share video. Real or not even placebo has its benefits

[fanne]

These economist (or atlantics or libtards or whatever they are called), cannot predict their mata Hillary election and have come to predict India's election. Bunch of Chut***, they can shove their colonial entitlement along with the brown sahibs/sahibas up their a$$

[fanne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5rUOiavJ8w

Sad ji being greeted by public

[CRamS]

Peregrine, why do you give publicity to that colonial rag Economist? Many years ago after I got my first job in US still as a brainwashed product of many of India's colonized tutors, I used to subscribe to Economist, NYT, and Wall Street journal as a sign of 'sophistication' and even used to show off by quoting from those newspapers. Call me a tube light if you will , but it took me a long time realize that all these western publications putting out drain inspector crap about India with a condescending anti-Hindu tone, that when it comes to India, these are rags spewing the ventriloquist voices of Lutyen chutiyas smoozing with white reporters in AC 5-star hotels in Lutyen Delhi and elsewhere.

The other day, I saw an interview that Nalin Kohli did with a Jihadi anchor called Mehdi Hasan with a Brit accent on that western-funded Islamic outlet Al Jazaeera. Why KohliJi subjected himself to that torture is a mystery to me, but he was calm and answered with grace even though he didn't counter punch in a convincing manner. Kohli was mercilessly badgered on the same themes, BJP hates Muslims, Muslims are being lynched, there is "Hindu terrorism", and guess what? Mehdi Hasan chutiya as one of his data points quoted UndY on number of instances of so called 'hate speech' under ModiJi . I read somewhere that Islamist elite RAPE like Rana Ayyub and Saba Naqvi who enjoy all the luxuries of Lutyen's India are his regular guests spewing bile on BJP and ModiJi, make India look like ISIS. Moment you invoke ISIS in a condemnatory manner, every Islamist becomes 'moderate'.

In fact, the following tweet from SwapanDa re-iterates my view

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I don’t think anything will be served by getting shirty over The Economist editorial. It has been written with inputs from India’s beleaguered liberals whose voice matters in the West. Indians should do their duty & uphold national self-interest. A Modi victory is the only answer

[vijayk]

Dr Praveen Patil
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2019 would probably be remembered by history as the beginning of the end of feudal politics in India, as many political dynasties are likely to bite the dust!

In-Depth analysis of phase 4

I cant't wait for it to happen