Statewide and National runup to 2014 General elections

[krisna]

many delhities are fed up of ak going with muslim appeasement- some loss expected from undecided educated folkswho will go with good doctor.
expect fordiwal to have a little less seats than claimed.

[fanne]

RajeshA sir please do the needful. Even though Fordriwal Ford Congress has been coined by me, it belongs to all of us and truly everyone has inspired that

[Sushupti]

The FORD congress however is helping Italian Congress against the Bhartiya party. Most of Italian Congress losses should have gone to Bhartiya than Ford.

Great one! FORD Congress! Needs to be propagated over SM!

Ford congress should be nipped in the bud otherwise it will be spread in other metros and then B,C class cities.

[muraliravi]

Ford congress should be nipped in the bud otherwise it will be spread in other metros and then B,C class cities.

That is their plan. If he does well in delhi, they will spread even before LS 2014 with active support of media. If they fail, they will still try after 2014 as congress will be in shatters.

[disha]

^^ yes, but only one seat has to be retained and the rest has to be resigned. Contesting multiple seats also shows underconfidence. Instead even if Modi puts a real donkey as a candidate and says that vote for donkey is vote for me, the donkey will win hands down!!

That is why he was election management chief for a while and then had to defer it to Rajnath Singh. Everybody has to be satisfied - right?

[fanne]

Two places, Lucknow and Patna to energize cadres in both states. (Now LKO can be Varanasi)

[ramana]

Ford congress should be nipped in the bud otherwise it will be spread in other metros and then B,C class cities.

That is their plan. If he does well in delhi, they will spread even before LS 2014 with active support of media. If they fail, they will still try after 2014 as congress will be in shatters.

AAP made some noise about Goa today shiowing thier plans are more than Delhi.

[Prem]

In Delhi Elections, seems no party want to discuss Illegal BaglaDeshi Voters.

[krisna]

can we get this type of no nonsense leaders in India .

[prahaar]

Regarding your question, having a single law for all Indians is a great idea under the current structure. But if you think about it more seriously, applying same law to 1200+ million people would be tyranny. My brain tells me that single law for 1250 million Bharatiyas is great, but as a Bharatiya, this is against the basic concept. In the short run, I guess it is necessary to stabilize the society but in the long run, it is a bad idea. The election cycle is too close for any realistic discussion about same law for all Indians. So may be it is OT.

[Sushupti]

Ford congress should be nipped in the bud otherwise it will be spread in other metros and then B,C class cities.

That is their plan. If he does well in delhi, they will spread even before LS 2014 with active support of media. If they fail, they will still try after 2014 as congress will be in shatters.

AAP made some noise about Goa today shiowing thier plans are more than Delhi.

IMO, idea is to take all the political space back from BJP gained during 90s.

[VikramS]

That is why it is critical that they flop in Delhi.
I hope BJP is taking the bounty-cleric issue to the cleaners, niran jee.

[Sushupti]

Basically party being held hostage to satisfy personal equations of "stateless leaders" with Congress.

What ails the Delhi BJP?

The decision to anoint Dr Harshvardhan, that too after Narendra Modi’s stupendous rally, can only be called a panic reaction. Party spokespersons were forced to admit that he is hardly known to the citizens of Delhi; in fact state unit president Vijay Goel is better known. But he was undone by trying to oust the entire bunch of Advani acolytes.

But regardless of the candidate, the fact remains that the BJP Delhi lacks people who raise the right issues at the right time. They are always missing in every crisis. Else, they make a joke of everything, such as Vijay Jolly gifting onions to Sheila Dixit. In contrast, the AAP discusses every issue threadbare with the people, informing and educating them about the details of every scam.

http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=3005

[muraliravi]

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/preel ... hi/391227/

Nov 27, 2008: Star TV-Nielson Survey

Congress may return to power for the third consecutive term in Delhi, according to a pre-poll survey that claimed that the party will lose its vote share by 4.3 per cent but still manage to pull through.

The survey, conducted by Star TV news channel, claimed that the ruling Congress, which has 47 MLAs in the present Assembly, will get 39 seats in the 70-member Assembly while Opposition BJP will improve its tally from 20 to 27 this election.

Oct 15, 2013: ABP - Nielson Survey (Remember ABP was formerly Star News)

Delhi is a month away from Assembly elections pre-poll survey by ABP-Nielsen predicted 22 seats for Congress and 28 for Bhartiya Janta Party. The news floated AAP would get 18 seats and others will get two seats in the Delhi Assembly polls which is scheduled for December 4.

Predicting that BJP will get 34 per cent votes, the opinion poll said that other parties and Independents are likely to manage only two seats.

Around 4,000 eligible voters were surveyed for the poll between October 9 and 12.

The survey said the current scenario could change once the candidates are announced by the parties.

It said BJP would have gained another 15 per cent votes if it didn’t have AAP as competitor.

This was one of the surveys that I found was bang on target in 2008 while predicting Delhi. The same news channel and survey agency is now predicting 28 for BJP. My gut is that with a 3 cornered contest, they accuracy will go down a little. Moreover, AAP voters overwhelmingly supported Modi. So my guess is that as election nears and when people will start looking at BJP as the only option to defeat Congress, the votes will move more towards BJP.

But we have to give it to congress and their pet media, for pulling this trick of a manchurian 3rd party every time to divide the BJP vote and making Indian public fall for it.

[Sushupti]

[Sushupti]

[member_23365]

AAP being projected to get 22 seats or more sounds too far from truth.
Here in Canada we have lot of Punjabi(Pindu) population, during last state assembly election in Punjab all Punjabi NRIs were going gaga over Manpreet Badal. He is a honest leader, was trying to fix issues with Punjab in his capacity as Punjab's FM but was sidelined by senior badal when he started opposing populist policies and his clean image was making him a direct competitor for Badal Jr(Sukhbir).
People here and media were saying he will get 15-20 seats.
Based on Haryana's experience about Ch. Bansilal, I used to tell them if he can get 2-5 seats that will be a big feat. In the end Manpreet didnt win any seat. Congress was under illusion that he will cut into Akali votes, but after election Congress blamed Manpreet for their loss.
Now Ch. Bansilal's story,
Bansilal who after parting away from Congress during his first state election under his own party(HVP) in 1991, was only able to get hold of 7 seats. Bansilal was 3 times CM before that. Also was in Cabinet at Center as Railway Minister and Defense Minster. He was also regarded as the creator of modern Haryana. When he become CM Haryana was considered a backward and undeveloped state. Because of his development efforts Harayan was the first state whose villages were electrified and connected with metaled roads back in 70s. A leader of such a proven track record was unable to make impact during his first stint on his own.
We have seen what happened to Keshibhai and Yeddurapa when they formed their own parties.
It is beyond me how AK is going to get 22 seats in his maiden run unless city politics is totally different from rural politics.

[VikramS]

atamjeet: There are more swing voters in urban areas. And AK is hyped up.

[Yagnasri]

There is no media hype, supporting ford money, left mafia and a secret pact with termite queen gang with the others. Fordcheater has all this. So expect something. But as days go by and election day closes near. There will be changes.

[Pratyush]

^^^

Hyped or otherwise, it is a fact that he is one all FM channels in Delhi, and is doing every thing needed to confuse voters. By making it a single issue election.

[Yagnasri]

He will create lot of issues in future also. Party of Ford money to control India just like colored revolutions west created in former soviet union. We can expect him make trouble in national elections also.

Just see how no one grilled him on his meet with that Barily Maulana. He has serious background. But bjp is slowly picking up and may win in Delhi. As a long term he has nothing to offer other than his rant.

[krishnan]

12:45 Maya says will fight alone in 2014, dismisses speculation of alliance with Cong: The Bahujan Samaj Party will go it alone in the Lok Sabha elections, said Mayawati today. "The people don't prefer either the Congress or the BJP."

Mayawati's statement comes after reports of the Congress trying to woo her by allotting three sprawling bungalows in the heart of Delhi.

[Karan M]

>>>Mayawati's statement comes after reports of the Congress trying to woo her by allotting three sprawling bungalows in the heart of Delhi.

There is no limit to which the INC will not stoop. Truly full blown parasites and their supporters were touting their grand old party stuff and how liberal, secular they were. Ack thoo!!

[Singha]

india today has a photo of mayawati-ji looking very stateswomanlike at some dinner table with fine cutlery.

tea leaves are clear - deputy PM or home minister post is on the table!

she & trinamool represent the best hopes of typing up considerable blocks of MPs. plus DMK if anti-JJ sentiments lead to a resounding landslide (TN style) for DMK.

[member_25682]

RajeshA sir please do the needful. Even though Fordriwal Ford Congress has been coined by me, it belongs to all of us and truly everyone has inspired that

Me likes. tweeted - Two words have a strong punch. Also asked if Ford Congress is better or would it be better to call it Congress(F)

[Yagnasri]

DMK is still in a very bad condition in TN. Amma will be getting good seats. I do not think DMK cross even 10.

[vivek.rao]

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/mayaw ... 131109.htm
Mayawati says she will fight alone in 2014 polls

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Saturday said her party would contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on its own.


"Regarding the Lok Sabha elections I will like to clarify that my party will not contest in an alliance with any other party in the country. Our party will contest on its own with full preparations," Mayawati told reporters in Lucknow.

"With this the reports that our party can have outside or internal alliance with the Congress or BJP are all rumours. These are being spread as a part of planned conspiracy to mislead our people and damage the BSP," she alleged. Mayawati claimed that her party would perform very well in the elections and play an important role in the mission of social change.

She said the way BJP leaders L K Advani, Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh were trying to outdo each other would only work in favour of the BSP. "The way the trio of Advani, Modi and Rajnath were trying to outdo each other, would also help the BSP in achieving its target to a great extent," she said. The BSP supremo claimed that in upcoming Lok Sabha elections her party would be number one in Uttar Pradesh. "I have full faith in the people of the state and all the workers of the party," she said. She said that before the Lok Sabha polls the BSP was contesting assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh independently.

Mayawati said she would visit the four states soon, but the dates would be announced later. She alleged the Samajwadi Party government in the state has failed to maintain law and order and was triggering riots in connivance with the BJP. "As the time of Lok Sabha elections come nearer, the SP and BJP, in a bid to give political advantage to each other as a part of tacit understanding, will vitiate atmosphere by spreading communal poison," she alleged.

[RoyG]

Mayawati will go with Congress eventually.

[chaanakya]

if anti-JJ sentiments lead to a resounding landslide (TN style) for DMK.

I don't see any anti JJ sentiments in TN. If anything people feel DMK will be routed in GE-2014 as well and it would be well deserved one.

[Muppalla]

Mayawati will go with Congress eventually.

Absolutely. At this time it is all calculations. After elections are declared then the actual alignments will start. Mayawati will go with INC if there is any chance of UPA coming back.

[Muppalla]

Rahul Gandhi's Kanker rally gives BJP a scare

If crowd is a benchmark of popularity, Rahul Gandhi stole the show over BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi by several notches at Kanker on Friday.

Creating a flutter in the BJP camp, Rahul’s rally, aided by the presence of wily tribal leader Ajit Jogi, managed to pull at least three times the size of crowd that had come to hear Modi on Thursday.

Congress had planned its strategy well. While it kept Jogi to hit back at Modi and BJP, Rahul Gandhi was there to talk about development policies of the Congress government at the Centre, especially with regard to tribal and land rights, employment guarantee, food security and other schemes targeted at the poor, youth and women. The strategy succeeded pitting Jogi against Modi and leaving as the Messiah of poor.

Braving sharp sun, the crowd waited anxiously to hear a sharp rebuttal of Modi from Jogi. The Gujarat CM had on Thursday ripped through “scam- ridden” Congress government amid cheers from the crowd.

Undoing the damage, Jogi took the fight back to the BJP camp by speaking in chaste Chhattisgarhi, interspersing it with extempore couplets that spoke of Sonia and Rahul’s “great deeds” for the poor.

He mocked at the BJP for picking points from the Congress manifesto and amid loud applause announced Congress’s populist food security scheme. Speaking in the end on a well-prepared pitch, Rahul delivered his usual trademark speech on development agenda of the Congress with ample dose of tribal rights. Free-wheeling talks with at least a dozen groups of people from all the three assembly constituencies of the Kanker district – Bhanupratappur, Antagarh and Kanker – showed that while Raman Singh enjoys a clean image, same is not true for his ministers and the state machinery.

The well oiled PDS system developed by Raman Singh that ensured his win in 2008 may not prove enough this time for BJP to woo the population that yearns for more freebies. “BJP government has lied to us all these years. They had promised to give us bonus of Rs250 per quintal of paddy per year but gave us only in the first year and now in the election year. There are no jobs for the youth,” said Bishnu Poya and Dharam Sodi, farmers from Lakhanpuri village of Bhanupratapur constituency.

Lokeshwar Nagesh of Bardewari village, Kanker was unhappy for not getting job in police. “I qualified five times but did not have money to get enrolled. I want change,” said Nagesh.

[Hari Seldon]

^^ RG pulling 3x namo rally size? wow.

maopests must have had a hand in ensuring turnout, maybem who knows... then ones who came to hear NM did so against maopest menace.

But this could well herald the tide turning in Cong favor at long last in CHT.

[Shanmukh]

Anant Kumar and Advani playing spoilsport with Yeddy.

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/news/bjp ... duct-yeddy

This BJP internecine warfare seems an endless thing. Anant Kumar cannot win Bangalore South if the educated class, that is steadfastly pro-BJP and have been so for the last 17 years. And his stubbornness is annoying them no end. I have no idea what the man wants to achieve, but he has dug his heels in, and Advani is supporting him.

[hanumadu]

^^ RG pulling 3x namo rally size? wow.

maopests must have had a hand in ensuring turnout, maybem who knows... then ones who came to hear NM did so against maopest menace.

But this could well herald the tide turning in Cong favor at long last in CHT.

Looks like a lifafa article. There is no clear shot of the crowd in this video, but it didn't look like much.

[Karan M]

Yeh lo... every attempt possible..

http://m.outlookindia.com/items.aspx/?a ... cebook.com

[gakakkad]

the article perhaps meant 3% of modi's rally.. if you look at the video at 30s onwards and 1:25 onwards you get an indication of the thin attendance..there are empty chairs behind the bamboo barrier..no decent panoramic view has been offered.. one of the views seems to be quite blurred,quite possibly on purpose to hide the thin attendance..

[Sushupti]

Mayawati will go with Congress eventually.

Absolutely. At this time it is all calculations. After elections are declared then the actual alignments will start. Mayawati will go with INC if there is any chance of UPA coming back.

This PeeVee guy is pretty much on the dot as far as UP/BIhar is concerned. Read bottom up.

[vivek.rao]

Arvind Kejriwal’s big Delhi roadshow gets lukewarm response by Nishtha Grover

The Aam Aadmi Party’s familiar drill, ‘jhaadu lagao, beimaan bhagao‘ got a lukewarm response in Old Delhi on Sunday morning. The public interaction rally appeared to be more of an appeasing tactic than a show of what the party stands for. Roadshow gets lukewarm response. AAP’s entourage moved through their first stop, Majnu ka tila, armed with the brooms and Gandhi topis, volunteers shouting slogans to get attention. The road show started with a few party leaders including Kumar Vishwas and Prashant Bhushan leading the bandwagon. It appeared that the leaders were trying valiantly to create an action replay of the crowd frenzy they whipped up during the 2011 and 2012 anti corruption movement rallies. Kumar Vishwas stood amidst the crowd and urged onlookers to join their rally. “Aam Aadmi Party came into existence for the aam aadmi, we promise a clean government, Arvind and all of us promise to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill, we need your support. Jhaadu ko vote do, beimaan ko saaf karo,” he pleads. Arvind Kejriwal himself is missing in action till 11 am. Crowds (mostly volunteers) celebrated the anti corruption poster boy, who addressed those present with his trademark frankness. “We want an honest government, the Aam Aadmi Party is the aam aadmi’s party, we will bring a change only if we get voted by you all,” he said. The road show was aimed at testing the waters, to feel the pulse of voters on the ground. The party used all its power and muscle in this exercise, but the cavalcade didn’t  have fancy cars or jeeps, it had humble vehicles of volunteers and party leaders. On their way to Methai Pul, the AAP rally faced a hurdle. According to the Election Commission guidelines, more than ten vehicles are not allowed in election rallies, and the party was clearly violating the rules. The cavalcade had to be cut short to only ten vehicles. The road show continued after a small break. Volunteers reasoned that the thin crowds were because it was a Sunday. “People are with AAP even if they are not here in large numbers. We know we have their support, the crowds will turn up as we proceed,” said the party worker.

[Karan M]

India ko bachao, AAP ko jhaadu do.

[Lilo]

Yeh lo... every attempt possible..

http://m.outlookindia.com/items.aspx/?a ... cebook.com

Though the CongIs brought about above banning of exit polls with malicious intent, I feel it is a good thing for desh in the long term. Only thing is... BJP must make sure this is not a one off exception by EC to benefit CongIs or otherwise and must insist on this norm before every election.
With the paid media of ours - the lesser its ability to influence election time narratives .. The better chance there is for a free and fair election occurring (in the real spirit of the phrase) with minimum influence of black money, foreign govts, and other internal monied subverters