Statewide and National runup to 2014 General elections

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 07 Mar 2014 19:01

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Thiruma Vck quiting Dmk allnce called urgnt mtng

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VCK chief Tiruma reportedly met PT chief KrishnaSwamy y'day! Dis resentment in the allianc surfacs after Stalin denies joining NDA postpol!

DMK alliance gets a hit in TN!

vivek.rao · Post by **vivek.rao** » 08 Mar 2014 03:05

so many parties in TN.

Is AP heading there too?

KKR party,CON party,BJP,TDP,Jagan Looter party,Loksatta,Pawan party

Now each actor and each caste will have its own party?

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 08 Mar 2014 06:06

Bad news on the MH front. Seems MNS is gonna contest the LS polls after all...

MNS to target Shiv Sena, skip contest with BJP (TOI)

MUMBAI: Raj Thackeray has declared total war against his cousin Uddhav Thackeray in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Bitter over the Shiv Sena spoiling the BJP's recent overtures to his MNS, Raj has firmed up a strategy that is aimed chiefly at the Shiv Sena, avoiding a direct contest with BJP candidates in the city and its peripheries, party sources said.

"We will chiefly contest seats where the Sena has put up its candidates. The Sena is on our radar," said an MNS MLA after attending a party conclave at his chief's Shivaji Park residence on Friday. The list of candidates will be announced at a party meeting in Mumbai on Sunday, the MNS's sixth anniversary, he said. The party is expected to contest 15-20 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

What could escalate tension in the Sena-BJP combine is the BJP seeking the MNS's support for the upcoming elections to the Maharashtra legislative council. Senior BJP leaders Vinod Tawde and Ashish Shelar held talks with the MNS president in this regard on Friday.

According to party sources, MNS MLA Bala Nandgaonkar will take on the Sena's Arvind Sawant, Congress's Milind Deora and AAP's Meera Sanyal in Mumbai South.

Aditya Shirodkar will contest from Mumbai South Central against the Sena's Rahul Shewale and Congress's sitting MP Eknath Gayakwad. Aditya is the son of Rajan Shirodkar, a close confidant of the MNS chief.

Was hoping its only media mischief and FUD but doesn't seem like it. IMO, RajT is compromised - the establishment has dirt on him and he has no choice but to dance to Dilli's tunes... always to the NDA's detriment.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 08 Mar 2014 06:28

Hari Seldon wrote:Bad news on the MH front. Seems MNS is gonna contest the LS polls after all...

MNS to target Shiv Sena, skip contest with BJP (TOI)

MUMBAI: Raj Thackeray has declared total war against his cousin Uddhav Thackeray in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Bitter over the Shiv Sena spoiling the BJP's recent overtures to his MNS, Raj has firmed up a strategy that is aimed chiefly at the Shiv Sena, avoiding a direct contest with BJP candidates in the city and its peripheries, party sources said.

"We will chiefly contest seats where the Sena has put up its candidates. The Sena is on our radar," said an MNS MLA after attending a party conclave at his chief's Shivaji Park residence on Friday. The list of candidates will be announced at a party meeting in Mumbai on Sunday, the MNS's sixth anniversary, he said. The party is expected to contest 15-20 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

What could escalate tension in the Sena-BJP combine is the BJP seeking the MNS's support for the upcoming elections to the Maharashtra legislative council. Senior BJP leaders Vinod Tawde and Ashish Shelar held talks with the MNS president in this regard on Friday.

According to party sources, MNS MLA Bala Nandgaonkar will take on the Sena's Arvind Sawant, Congress's Milind Deora and AAP's Meera Sanyal in Mumbai South.

Aditya Shirodkar will contest from Mumbai South Central against the Sena's Rahul Shewale and Congress's sitting MP Eknath Gayakwad. Aditya is the son of Rajan Shirodkar, a close confidant of the MNS chief.
Was hoping its only media mischief and FUD but doesn't seem like it. IMO, RajT is compromised - the establishment has dirt on him and he has no choice but to dance to Dilli's tunes... always to the NDA's detriment.

If he has intention of helping NDA, he can put candidates but instruct cadre to vote for NDA. It's done all the time at ground lavel.

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 08 Mar 2014 07:58

Guys,

If MNS is helping bjp and screwing sena, i dont think he is a cong agent. Why would he help sena after all. He has a party to run and and he has to fight elections to keep his cadre morale up. So he's doing his best by helping the BJP.

I think this is fine. Bjp swallowed it's ego by approaching raj, let sena suffer if they cant do that

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 08 Mar 2014 12:01

muraliravi wrote:Guys,

If MNS is helping bjp and screwing sena, i dont think he is a cong agent. Why would he help sena after all. He has a party to run and and he has to fight elections to keep his cadre morale up. So he's doing his best by helping the BJP.

I think this is fine. Bjp swallowed it's ego by approaching raj, let sena suffer if they cant do that

This is was kind of expected. If MNS is not part of Mahayuti, and still has a party to run, of course Raj Thakeray would be putting up candidates. Otherwise his men would just go back to Shiv Sena, if he is seen as too accommodating in spite of humiliation.

As the default expectation was that MNS would be putting up candidates, it is fantastic news that he wouldn't be doing it against BJP.

Now Shiv Sena has a few things in its favor
1) Traditionally bigger vote-bank
2) Part of Mahayuti
3) Can use TsuNaMo

What Shiv Sena has not been doing is throwing its full support to NaMo. Udhay has been sniping at NaMo from the beginning. Now if he wants MNS not to spoil his plans, Udhay has the option of doing bigger Maharashtra Manoos than MNS or playing up the NaMo! Udhay may have to stop NaMo sniping now, for otherwise MNS which is not putting up any candidates against BJP would look as more pro-NaMo.

BhairavP · Post by **BhairavP** » 08 Mar 2014 12:11

^This means Mumbai South will go to Deora again. Bala Nandgaonkar is far more popular than the SS candidate - heck, I can't even recall his name right now.

BhairavP · Post by **BhairavP** » 08 Mar 2014 13:42

2nd list announced by the BJP. Yeddyurappa from Shimoga, Ananth Kumar from BLR South.

Atri · Post by **Atri** » 08 Mar 2014 14:59

BhairavP wrote:^This means Mumbai South will go to Deora again. Bala Nandgaonkar is far more popular than the SS candidate - heck, I can't even recall his name right now.

The SS candidate from south mumbai - mohan rawle has already left SS. It will be totally new face, this time. MNS will contest on 15 seats.

south mumbai - Bala nandgaokar OR Rawle (will go to MNS and not to INC)
south-central - aditya shirodkar (will go to MNS, unless good candidate is given)
north mumbai - pravin darekar (dicey. Gopal Shetty is good leader - plus plenty of UP-Bihar vote here will go to BJP this time)
north-west mumbai - mahesh manjrekar (will lose onlee)
Shirur - Amol Kolhe (most probably will lose)
Pune - Dipak Paygude (will lose)
Nashik - Pradip Pawar (will lose)
Kalyan - ramesh patil. (will lose)

Thing is places where i say MNS will lose, does not mean NDA will necessarily win. It may be 2009 redux. The fact that RT decided to contest, means he got his goahead from Pawar saheb. Whatever discussions were ongoing between Pawar and BJP (through gadkari) have failed. there is a caveat here - I will have to see how is the fervor of campaign. As far as I know, MNS has serious shortage of candidates - no one wants to contest from MNS. hence they are going to contest only 12-13 seats. Unless this is a token contest, it will be 2009 redux (BJP may still win 18-19 seats, NDA totally will not cross 27 - without MNS - 35-37 were sure). Furthermore, in 2009, on many seats, BJP and Sena actively sabotaged each other to ensure NCP victory.

Sharad Pawar has always played the politics of negation. He screws the "other" and wins by default.

the centuries old fratricidal trait among marathas (not caste, the social group we refer to when we say maratha empire) is at display as always. This is primary reason why I want Vidarbha to separate from MH. Instead of becoming a formidable and disciplined army working in tandem, we usually become infighting trolls wasting our energy in needless fight. I don't want vidarbha to drown with us. They have good future ahead of them.

This is one more step towards separation of BJP from SS in coming 5-6 years. I hope BJP demands more seats from SS this time (although unlikely that SS will concede). Unless UT has some ace up his sleeve, SS will drag BJP down this time. Modi will have to make some extra flights in mumbai-pune-nasik triangle (13-14 seats) which otherwise rightfully belonged to NDA if MNS weren't there to cut votes.

SPattath · Post by **SPattath** » 08 Mar 2014 15:08

BJP Second List

Karnataka

Ramesh V. Katti: Chikkodi
Suresh C Angadi: Belgaum
PC Gaddigoudar: Bagalkot
Ramesh C. Jigajinagi: Bijapur (SC)
Revu Naik Belamgi: Gulbarga (SC)
K Sivanagouda Naik: Raichur (ST)
Sanganna A Karadi: Koppal
Shivkumari C Udasi: Haveri
Prahlad Joshi: Dharwad
Ananth Kumar Hegde: Uttara Kannada
GM Siddeswara: Davanagere
BS Yeddyurappa: Shimoga
Nalin Kumar Katil: Dakshina Kannada
Janardhana Swamy: Chitradurga (SC)
AR Krishna Murthy: Chamarajanagar (SC)
P Muniraja Gowda: Bangalore Rural
DV Sadananda Gowda: Bangalore North
PC Mohan: Bangalore central
Ananth Kumar: Bangalore South
BN Bachhegouda: Chikkballapur

West Bengal

Nimu Bhowmick: Raiganj
Susanta Ranjan Pal: Baharampur
KD Biswas: Bangaon (SC)
RK Handa: Barrackpore
Samik Bhattacharya: Basirhat
Chandan Mitra: Hooghly
Madhusudhan Bag: Arambagh (SC)
Badsah Alam: Tamluk
Md Alam: Ghatal
Bikash Mudi: Jhargram (ST)
Prabhakar Tiwari: Medinipur
Dr. Jayanta Mondal: Bishnupur (SC)
Santosh Roy: Bardhaman Purba (SC)
Deboshree Chowdhury: Burdwan, Durgapur
Babul Supriya: Asansol
Kamini Mohan Sarkar: Bolpur (SC)
Joy Banerjee: Birbhum

Assam

Bijoya Chakrabaorty: Guwahati

Kerala

O Rajagopal: Thiruvananthapuram
K Surendran: Kasaragod
AN Radhakrishnan: Ernakulam

Odisha

Subash Chauhan: Bargarh
Dr. Nepol Raghu Murmu: Mayurbhanj (ST)
Pratap Sarangi: Balasore
Pradeep Nayak: Kalahandi
Shibashankar Ulka: Koraput (ST)

Tripura

Sudhindra Ch. Dasgupta: Tripura West
Parikshit Debbarma: Tripura East (ST)

BhairavP · Post by **BhairavP** » 08 Mar 2014 15:14

Gurulog, any comments on the list?

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 08 Mar 2014 15:21

Atri garu,

may be all this would force Udhay to negotiate with Raj. If Uday does not win sufficient seats, then in the Assembly polls, BJP would be demanding a much bigger share of assembly seats for itself.

Also chances are higher, BJP may go with MNS in assembly polls.

Uday has to find a compromise formula with Raj.

Atri · Post by **Atri** » 08 Mar 2014 15:32

THey have chance to grow in MH organically. They always had that chance. But now odds are getting more in their favor. I do not know why BJP is afraid of taking that leap. Now they have a non-brahmin leadership, dedicated cadre and money-power (not as strong as NCP, but growing). The politics of Senas has no future. Uddhav knows that (he is a perceptive man). MH is very rapidly urbanizing and people from all over country are going to flock in here and it really won't matter if MH can sustain the inherent growth (which it is immensely capable of). The GDP of MH in spite of 15 years of gross and criminal misgovernance and abysmally corrupt and incompetent regime was very high (around 233 billion USD in 2012). MH under Modi-like leader would out do OR at least match the Germany's industrial output in 10-15 years.

Sooner or later, they will have to make that decision and go solo. The urge to be in power asap has been the undoing of Munde-Mahajan duo - somehow mysteriously sabotaged by some higher power when in 1995-99 they had made serious dents in western MH sugar lobby. Munde may do that again, if he decides to take the risk.

SS-BJP will separate if NDA (minus SS) can be in majority - They will partition MH and will force the Senas to break away. Withoug BJP, SS has no future. Without Sena, BJP will suffer a temporary defeat - It will be back in the game in MMR region after 7-8 years. Rest of MH, SS does not matter anyways. Given their status, they aren't poised to win sept'14 elections anyways.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 08 Mar 2014 16:16

This list is very disappointing. Like AP, if they field leaders of 90s era i doubt if BJP will reach even 150.

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 08 Mar 2014 18:32

Sparks fly in BJP meet as Sushma, Joshi confront Rajnath

With hardly a month left for the Lok Sabha polls, infighting within the BJP brass broke out afresh.

Senior leaders Murli Manohar Joshi and Sushma Swaraj raised a storm at a meeting of the party's central election committee here on Saturday, posing tough questions to chief Rajnath Singh.

Joshi, a sitting MP from Varanasi, is unhappy over media reports that the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will contest from his seat. He asked Singh if a decision had been taken to replace him with Modi. "How come there has been a series of reports in the media claiming that Modi will be fielded from Varanasi? Has any decision been taken? If not, why aren't you denying it," Joshi asked Rajnath and Modi. What followed were some sharp exchanges between Joshi and Rajnath.

Swaraj, who has spoken out over the inclusion of tainted leaders in the BJP of late, questioned the party’s tie-up decisions "without proper consultation."

Saturday’s developments are a throwback to 2009, when infighting torpedoed the party’s electoral prospects in the general elections.

Swaraj, on the other hand, lashed out when BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu suggested that a parliamentary board meeting be called to discuss pending issues in Andhra Pradesh (read alliance with TDP). She asked the BJP chief why no parliamentary board meeting was called to discuss alliance with Ramvilas Paswan, who had been abusing the BJP in all this years, or to approve merger of tainted B Sriramulu's BSR Congress.

"Who is taking these decisions? Even during day when the BJP had just two MPs all such decision were taken by the parliamentary board. The practise is not being followed," Swaraj said.

She was upset also with the fact that despite having never backed the controversial 'Bellary Brothers', an impression has been created that she was their political mentor. "Didn't you people take money from them to contest election? Why drag my name?" she asked a leader from Karnataka during the meeting.

Sushma left the meeting midway, triggering news reports that she walked out in protest. "Going to Bhopal for important party meetings there," Swaraj wrote on Twitter to set the record straight.

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 08 Mar 2014 18:58

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subhamoy.das · Post by **subhamoy.das** » 08 Mar 2014 19:14

The sooner she leaves the party and join congress a or b teams the better for bjp

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 08 Mar 2014 20:13

[quote="muraliravi"][/quote]
Saar vaarthayae alandhu kottavum.

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 08 Mar 2014 20:43

Cong releases first list of LS candidates; Nilekani, Kaif get tickets

The Congress on Saturday announced its first list of 194 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections with Aadhaar chairman Nandan Nilekani, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, cricketer Mohammad Kaif and actor Ravi Kishan among the prominent names.
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Others who figured in the first list were Sonia Gandhi, who will contest from Bareily, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar from Sasaram, PL Punia from Barabanki, RPN Singh from Kushinagar, Priya Dutt from Mumbai North Central and Sushilkumar Shinde from Solapur.

The move came after the BJP released its second list of LS candidates earlier in the day. Nilekani will take on BJP MP Ananth Kumar from the Bangalore South constituency. Atal Behari Vajpayee's niece, Karuna Shukla, will contest from Bilaspur.

"The CEC has declared names of 194 LS seats, 35% of the candidates are youth, 15% are women," Congress spokesperson Madhusudan Mistry said.
Ranjeet Ranjan, Pappu Yadav's wife, will contest on Congress ticket from Supaul in Bihar.

The BJP earlier announced its second list of 52 candidates with former Karnataka chief ministers BS Yeddyurappa and DV Sadananda Gowda and Rajya Sabha MP Chandan Mitra among the prominent names.

With its second list on Saturday, the BJP has announced a total of 106 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections that will be held between April 7 and May 12. The third list of BJP's LS candidates would be announced after an election meeting on March 13.

Kakkaji · Post by **Kakkaji** » 08 Mar 2014 22:00

Sushma Swaraj, LK Advani, and MM Joshi bring no value to BJP in this election. In fact they bring negative value. They cannot win their own seats without support from BJP Chief Ministers or NaMo.

Send Sushma to contest from a seat in Telangana, and to lead the BJP election effort there. Do not give her a safe seat in MP or Haryana.

Do not support LKA in Gandhinagar. Let him campaign and win on his own steam.

MMJ should be promised a Rajya Sabha seat, if he agrees to campaign quietly and positively during the LS election.

What party consultation is Sushma talking about, when the party cadre has emphatically supported NaMo and his decisions?

One of the first things that NaMo needs to do after the election is to reconstitute the BJP parliamentary Board, and pack off these old dodos to their retirement sinecures.

Victor · Post by **Victor** » 08 Mar 2014 22:22

Kakkaji wrote:..pack off these old dodos to their retirement sinecures.

They already were in their retirement sinecures when Modi came along and disrupted their cosy existence. Hence the agitation maybe.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 08 Mar 2014 22:40

from faking news

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 08 Mar 2014 22:44

I provide translations when I use tamil, I do not provide translations when I use Hindi. (funny nobody demands translation when Hindi is freely used. People post poems and what not without translations too). This time I did not want to provide translation, because in the absence of private messaging I meant that as a communication to him. I did not want to report him, so had given him some friendly advice.

member_28108 · Post by **member_28108** » 08 Mar 2014 22:57

SwamyG wrote:I provide translations when I use tamil, I do not provide translations when I use Hindi. (funny nobody demands translation when Hindi is freely used. People post poems and what not without translations too). This time I did not want to provide translation, because in the absence of private messaging I meant that as a communication to him. I did not want to report him, so had given him some friendly advice.

Actually I would like translations of Hindi too

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 09 Mar 2014 02:06

SwamyG wrote:I provide translations when I use tamil, I do not provide translations when I use Hindi. (funny nobody demands translation when Hindi is freely used. People post poems and what not without translations too). This time I did not want to provide translation, because in the absence of private messaging I meant that as a communication to him. I did not want to report him, so had given him some friendly advice.

SwamyG, message received, thanks

JohnTitor · Post by **JohnTitor** » 09 Mar 2014 02:24

prasannasimha wrote:
SwamyG wrote:I provide translations when I use tamil, I do not provide translations when I use Hindi. (funny nobody demands translation when Hindi is freely used. People post poems and what not without translations too). This time I did not want to provide translation, because in the absence of private messaging I meant that as a communication to him. I did not want to report him, so had given him some friendly advice.

Actually I would like translations of Hindi too

Second that, hindi is not india's national language and just because more states speak it does not mean we (non-hindi speakers) should be excluded from the conversation.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 09 Mar 2014 02:27

http://www.juancole.com/2014/03/religio ... cracy.html
India’s Elections: Religious Nationalism and the Future of Democracy

LET the contest begin. The mammoth electoral effort is an example of India working at its best. It is relevant globally, as a corrective for those who are made gloomy about the worldwide prospects for democracy, given the rise of undemocratic China and the weakness of Western powers. Prolonged and massive, it will involve a sixth of the world’s population in one go. Potential first-time voters alone, at 100m, are the rough equivalent of the entire population of the Philippines, being added to the democratic fold in one go. The likely result, with the smooth and peaceful transition of power from one party to its rival, will be testimony to the maturity of Indian democracy.Indian elections—unlike
those in nearby Islamic Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh, for example—are by and large peaceful. A series of bomb blasts at a BJP rally in Bihar late in 2013 was exceptional. The conduct of the elections is mostly clean. (Campaigning can be another matter: parties and candidates do routinely break rules on spending, and huge amounts of money plus gifts in kind will be dished out to voters in the coming weeks.) Nobody suggests that the results are rigged. Electronic voting (over 1.4m machines will be used) and heavy deployment of security forces have put an end, even in remote areas, to a practice known as “booth capturing”, when thugs would storm into a polling station and stuff ballot boxes.
Four things are likely to happen. First, drawing again from evidence in state elections, the turn-out is likely to be high. The election commission says 70% is possible, and in some areas the proportion is likely to be significantly higher. The reason: voter rolls are much improved, with wrong names and the dead more efficiently scrubbed these days. In addition, anger at the ruling Congress party, excitement about Mr Modi and a general sense that this election matters, are all said to be energising many potential voters.Second, the campaign will be more urban in character than any before. Officially nearly two-thirds of Indians still live in villages, and many subsist on farming. In reality, especially in the past ten years of mostly rapid economic growth, India has grown more urban. . Older political messages from the parties will continue, promising access to government services, some form of welfare or a preferential hand-out for a chosen caste or religious group. But these are likely to bring diminishing returns. Instead, wise politicians will increasingly campaign by talking of urban aspiration. They will also use more urban methods, reaching voters on those phones and televisions, also the internet, far more than before.Third, the role of party leaders will be unusually strong. Some talk of India’s national election becoming increasingly presidential in character. This is not entirely new: India’s long-serving first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was hugely powerful; his daughter, Indira Gandhi, proved herself far stronger than the Congress party. Yet there is no doubt that Mr Modi, Gujarat’s chief minister, is able to dominate much of this election. One reason is his controversial past: presiding over Gujarat in 2002 when communal riots saw over 1,000 people killed, most of them Muslims. Another is his promotion of a strong economic record in Gujarat. Another, perhaps most important, is that he runs easily the most professional of the political campaigns. By contrast Congress’s Rahul Gandhi looks diffident and unsure, seeming to spend more time studying spread-sheets and tinkering with internal party reforms than explaining why he would want to rule India. Other party leaders, such as Arvind Kejriwal, head of a Delhi-based anti-corruption party, or regional figures such as Jayaram Jayalalitha in Tamil Nadu, may prove especially strong in their own areasFourth, finally, there is likely to be some surprise in the overall results, given the vagaries built into the Westminster-style political system. Opinion polls (even the most corrupted Indian ones), can give a decent idea of the likely share of votes that various parties will draw, for example in massive and politically important states such as Uttar Pradesh. But how evenly such votes are shared between constituencies is harder to predict. Whether votes clump heavily together or scatter thin and wide determines how efficiently they translate into winning seats for a party. And even when the seats are known, next comes the convoluted stage of building coalitions between parties that were formerly rivals, in order to get more than 272 seats and form a national government. The most difficult challenge for Mr Modi, for example, may come after the votes and seats are accounted for, as he seeks reliable coalition allies

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 09 Mar 2014 05:48

Woman on lotus
WHILE a BJP victory would mean Narendra Modi as prime minister, the DMK’s A Raja, of the 2G scam fame, is convinced that Sushma Swaraj will be the next PM. Raja is an atheist who says he does not believe in superstition. But his wife is a believer and seems to have converted Raja. Raja’s wife has been regularly consulting astrologers in Tamil Nadu, who read kundalis (horoscopes) on palm leaves. Before Raja was arrested, the pandits had warned his spouse that they would be separated for 18 months because of a snake that would turn into handcuffs.

The readings apparently also predicted the death of a close relative within days of his marriage. Stunned by such “unerringly accurate” forecasts, Raja sent his wife to enquire whether he would win in the parliamentary elections and who would be the next PM. The astrologer predicted that Raja would be successful and that the next PM would be a woman standing on a lotus. Raja is convinced that the lotus is the BJP and the woman is Swaraj, with whom he once worked in the Health Ministry. Raja rejects the alternative interpretation, that the woman could be Jayalalithaa, who could become the PM with BJP support.

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinio ... guests/99/

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 09 Mar 2014 05:58

^That 'woman' is Goddess Lakshmi Herself. Whose re-emergence Modi's PMship will make possible in this ancient land...

vivek.rao · Post by **vivek.rao** » 09 Mar 2014 06:19

gandharva wrote:Woman on lotus
WHILE a BJP victory would mean Narendra Modi as prime minister, the DMK’s A Raja, of the 2G scam fame, is convinced that Sushma Swaraj will be the next PM. Raja is an atheist who says he does not believe in superstition. But his wife is a believer and seems to have converted Raja. Raja’s wife has been regularly consulting astrologers in Tamil Nadu, who read kundalis (horoscopes) on palm leaves. Before Raja was arrested, the pandits had warned his spouse that they would be separated for 18 months because of a snake that would turn into handcuffs. The readings apparently also predicted the death of a close relative within days of his marriage. Stunned by such “unerringly accurate” forecasts, Raja sent his wife to enquire whether he would win in the parliamentary elections and who would be the next PM. The astrologer predicted that Raja would be successful and that the next PM would be a woman standing on a lotus. Raja is convinced that the lotus is the BJP and the woman is Swaraj, with whom he once worked in the Health Ministry. Raja rejects the alternative interpretation, that the woman could be Jayalalithaa, who could become the PM with BJP support.

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinio ... guests/99/

Who is the snake that turned into handcuff?

Sonia?

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 09 Mar 2014 06:36

Badal Sr insisting on bringing back INLD into NDA fold...

http://www.jagran.com/news/national-shi ... um=twitter

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 09 Mar 2014 07:39

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/dmk-allots-one-more-seat-to-vck/article5764092.ece

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Saturday staved off a crisis involving one of its key allies, the Viduthalai Chiruthaikal Katchi (VCK), by offering one more Lok Sabha (LS) seat to the Dalit party after protests erupted against the DMK’s earlier decision to share just one seat for the coming Lok Sabha election.

While it looked almost certain that a miffed VCK would walk out on the DMK-led front in Tamil Nadu, party treasurer M.K. Stalin’s timely intervention helped to retain the Dalit party in the alliance.

The VCK has now been allotted the Tiruvallur constituency in addition to Chidambaram, a reserved constituency that elected VCK leader Thol. Thirumavalavan in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.

Hours before the meeting of the VCK’s district secretaries taking the extreme step of quitting the front, Mr Stalin called Thirumavalavan, requesting him to visit Anna Arivalayam to sign the agreement for the Tiruvallur (reserved) constituency.

The Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) leader K. Veeramani, also played a role in retaining the VCK in the DMK-fold.

Differences during the seat-sharing talks cropped up, as the DMK’s Villupuram district secretary, K Ponmudi resisted allotting the Chidambaram seat to the VCK this time.

Sources privy to the talks said that the VCK was ‘angered’ at the DMK’s bid to treat the party as merely a caste outfit. But wiser counsel prevailed on both sides to seal the deal.

“Our leader was flooded with phone calls from partymen across the State, questioning why he had settled for a single seat. They wanted us to leave the alliance,” said a senior VCK leader.

In many other places in Tamil Nadu, the VCK cadres tore down flag posts of both parties in disgust.

The VCK leaders wondered how the DMK leadership could treat the Dalit party on a par with smaller parties when the former’s vote share was substantial.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/karunanidhi-no-talks-with-left-so-far/article5764260.ece

A section of CPI leaders were supportive of a tie-up with DMK but clarity will emerge after discussions between senior leaders in Delhi, party sources said.

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 09 Mar 2014 07:50

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/mood-of-frustration-in-left-parties-camp/article5763997.ece

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 09 Mar 2014 08:40

Role of Vajpayee Congress is to prevent this.

NDA makes gains with urban, OBC voters
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 704152.cms

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 09 Mar 2014 08:47

Hijra dance of Vajpayee Congress at full flow.

Tandon Dares Rajnath, Vows to Contest from Lucknow

http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/ ... xvlOdvoFUE

Rahul Mehta · Post by **Rahul Mehta** » 09 Mar 2014 09:05

Number of voters between 1999 and 2004 increased by 8.4% ; from 2004 to 2009, it increased by 6.8% and between 2009 and 2014 increased by 13.5% !!! More registration? Or Bangladeshies too? We should highlight this fact via newspaper advt as paid-media will never write it otherwise, and Congress\BJP\AAP leaders have ordered their volunteers not to raise this issue.

From election commission's website I got following

Year nVoters %increase
1999_____61.95
2004_____67.14____08.4%
2009_____71.70____06.8%
2014_____81.40____13.5%

number of voters are in crores.

The decrease in 2004-2009 period is expected due to gradual decrease in population riise i.e. decrease in population growth rate. But what can reason for huge increase in voters in 2009-2014? In this five years, we added almost as many voters as we added in 1999-2009 ten years period !!!!

Voter registration has been better, But so has been removal of duplicates. So increase in number of voters should have been there say around 8% or 9%. But IMO no"organic" or "internal" factor can explain such raise in number of voters. The ONLY factors I can think of is massive Bangladeshi refugees and Bangladeshi infiltrators. Now since 1991 , there has been far more Bangladeshi infiltrators than Bangladeshi refugees. So IMO, this abnormal increase in number of voters is more due to Bangladeshi infiltrators, second factor is Bangladeshi refugees and third factor can be better voter registration.

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Solution I propose
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Solution to bangladesi mess is in chap-32 and chap-33 of http://rahulmehta.com/301.htm . But we do need to draw attention of activists and voters on this issue asap. IMO, only solution is to give officially give newspaper advt. Because paid-media will not print it. And BJP\AAP\Congress leaders have ordered their andh-bhagat volunteers to keep silence on all demography related issue including supression of religion % numbers in census-2011.

So I request all NOT to donate a penny to AAP\BJP\Congress but use your money to give officially paid advertisements in newspaper highlighting solutions and important problems.

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Links

http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalR ... S_2004.pdf

http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2 ... ectors.pdf

http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalR ... _LS_99.pdf

Google for election 2014

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gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 09 Mar 2014 09:09

Means Loh Purush.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 09 Mar 2014 11:08

Prabhu Chawla wants a consensus PM, Aamir Khan wants no single party getting absolute majority so that there will be blackmailable balance.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 09 Mar 2014 11:27

gandharva wrote:Woman on lotus
WHILE a BJP victory would mean Narendra Modi as prime minister, the DMK’s A Raja, of the 2G scam fame, is convinced that Sushma Swaraj will be the next PM. Raja is an atheist who says he does not believe in superstition. But his wife is a believer and seems to have converted Raja. Raja’s wife has been regularly consulting astrologers in Tamil Nadu, who read kundalis (horoscopes) on palm leaves. Before Raja was arrested, the pandits had warned his spouse that they would be separated for 18 months because of a snake that would turn into handcuffs. The readings apparently also predicted the death of a close relative within days of his marriage. Stunned by such “unerringly accurate” forecasts, Raja sent his wife to enquire whether he would win in the parliamentary elections and who would be the next PM. The astrologer predicted that Raja would be successful and that the next PM would be a woman standing on a lotus. Raja is convinced that the lotus is the BJP and the woman is Swaraj, with whom he once worked in the Health Ministry. Raja rejects the alternative interpretation, that the woman could be Jayalalithaa, who could become the PM with BJP support.

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinio ... guests/99/

Future PM

bhargava · Post by **bhargava** » 09 Mar 2014 12:18