Statewide and National runup to 2014 General elections

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 13 Apr 2014 07:53

AIADMK 'B-team' of BJP, DMK may be 'C-team': Chidambaram

http://zeenews.india.com/news/general-e ... 24083.html

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 13 Apr 2014 07:55

Muppalla wrote:Can someone dig some authentic info on Pappy's arrest in Boston. Thx

what suffice as authentic? There was a TOI news item but it was removed. Here is one by Chindu.

http://www.hindu.com/2001/09/30/stories/02300003.htm

VikramS · Post by **VikramS** » 13 Apr 2014 07:56

nageshks:

I think BJP volunteers should openly state that

"The EJ & Muslims are so desperate to stop NaMo. It time religious leaders interference be stopped. Show them that in a secular country, religion based appeals should be defeated. Vote for secularism, vote for Modi".

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 13 Apr 2014 08:06

Hari-ji: you had mentioned that you are in India and helping out locally. Would you be willing to do face-to-face campaigning? Even if not, there are several other ways to help. For example: a TN IT Cell coordinator said he had a list of phone numbers & addresses but wanted to split them up by constituency (based on pin-code). Lakhs of numbers. He asked if someone could do it in an automated fashion.

There are many ways to help. The best way to figure out how best we can help (based on our skills & availability) is to contact the local BJP office. If you are interested in a particular region, please let me know and I can try to put you in touch with the right people

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 13 Apr 2014 08:15

VikramS wrote:nageshks:

I think BJP volunteers should openly state that

"The EJ & Muslims are so desperate to stop NaMo. It time religious leaders interference be stopped. Show them that in a secular country, religion based appeals should be defeated. Vote for secularism, vote for Modi".

I don't know if it will make the slightest difference. Nandan Nilekani cannot speak Kannada (he refused to speak Kannada in a public meeting, because his Kannada is very poor), but may still get elected from Bangalore South. It is such a shame, but there it is.

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 13 Apr 2014 08:18

Short break from the regular programming, guys. Plz visit the "BRF Social Media Cell: Twitter Control Room" forum. We are trying to trend #Nilekani420, based on Aadhaar fraud. Fight for Bangalore South!

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 08:29

MediaCrooks ‏@mediacrooks 7m

So @digvijaya_28 ran away from Varanasi.. and his protege likely to run away too? ..This is a comedy of sorts.. pic.twitter.com/0sCIOLr8IH

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 08:33

Gujarat is India’s top state in economic freedom
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.co ... ic-freedom

Forget this debate. Neither growth nor social indicators are accurate measures of Modi’s main election plank — good governance. Measuring governance is difficult, and hence neglected by statisticians. Yet it’s all-important. One annual report has long provided indicators of governance. This is Economic Freedom of the States of India (EFSI), written by Bibek Debroy, Laveesh Bhandari and me. The 2013 EFSI report shows Gujarat has been No. 1 in economic freedom for the last three years, widening its lead over others. On a scale from 0 to 1, its overall freedom score has improved from 0.46 to 0.65. Tamil Nadu comes a distant second with 0.54. Economic freedom is not identical to good governance. But lack of economic freedom typically means poor governance — a jungle of rules and obfuscating bureaucrats that promote corruption, delay and harassment. This hits everybody from farmers and consumers to industrialists and transporters.

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Its quality of government spending is high: it has the lowest ratio of administrative GDP to total GDP. Spending is focused on infrastructure rather than staff. Modi’s repeated state election victories show that his approach produces high voter satisfaction. Gujarat is not a classical free-market state. It has large, expanding public sector companies, and substantial taxes on capital and commodities. It has many subsidies, though fewer than in other states. Still, business thrives in its business-friendly climate. One businessman told me that in Tamil Nadu, it took six months and several visits (and payments) to ministries for industrial approval. But in Gujarat, the ministry concerned called him the day before his appointment, asking for details of his proposal. Next day, he found the bureaucracy had in advance prepared plans of possible locations for his project, and settled the matter on the spot. This was unthinkable elsewhere, and showed both efficiency and honesty. Corruption has not disappeared in Gujarat, but is muted.

Modi’s Jyotigram scheme provides 24/7 electricity for rural households, plus reliable power at fixed times for tubewells. This explains why Gujarat has India’s fastest agricultural growth (10%/year for a decade, say economists Gulati and Shah). Indian agriculture is crippled by regulations, but Gulati shows that Gujarat has the highest agricultural freedom among states. Modi charges farmers for power, and so all his three state power companies are profitable. By contrast, power companies in other states with free rural power have accumulated losses of almost Rs 200,000 crore.

satishR · Post by **satishR** » 13 Apr 2014 08:52

Prem Kumar, this is my first post on BRF( I have been reading BRF since 1998 nuclear tests). I am in the US, but can help regarding processing phone numbers by pin code. If you need me to do something in this regard, just let me know.

niran · Post by **niran** » 13 Apr 2014 09:33

Orrisa
bjp and bjd should be in the ratio of 3:2 in favor of bjp

a surprise this time around we should see NE saffronised
I hear people trekking one full day (including return journey)
for bjp.

baghpat
satpal Singh of bjp has polled around 43% of votes his opponent mistah hayjeet sing 26%

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 13 Apr 2014 09:39

Muraliravi, R Vaidya is looking for a compilation of each state with who is running for each state. Isnt there one for each state in the EC website?

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 13 Apr 2014 09:47

Awesome job everyone!! #Nilekani420 is trending on Twitter. Lets keep going strong

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 13 Apr 2014 09:47

If BJP does good in Orissa, or even does good than BJD, I will be least surprised. Few points to ponder on Orissa, it is one of the most conservative states in India (read conservative = Indic= 'Communal'). The people are simpler, and the % population of Indic religion is 97%. Also BJP always had a good traction (I have to 'waste' few hours to google to build the case), many opinion polls going backk as much as 8-9 years, showed BJP with at least 30% votes (election showed far less, maybe lack of good candidate). If this election translates into presidential, then it will help BJP (as local candidate will get overlooked), Also I believe, NP saying that he will not support any party also helped BJP, ...why support someone in LS when he himslef says he will not play (Same people may vote him in assembly).
That's the reason why I cringed when Modi few days ago went hammer/tongs on NP. BJP in my opinion is not getting vote because NP is bad, it is getting vote because of the +ve vote of BJP, -ve vote of congress and NP foolish decision that I will not support anyone. So talk about your greatness, talk bad about con, and leave NP out.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 13 Apr 2014 09:51

how is orissa doing economically? the congis have scapped and stalled every big project that came to its shores.
perhaps they thought using a mix of poverty, doles, EJ manna and gandhi magic will bring them back into power later?

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 13 Apr 2014 09:58

Orissa has got only one thing, an honest CM just like an honest PM that India has. Other than that, very little to show. With time and technology, things have improved, now more people have mobile, urban centers have same chaotic growth. Initial years were good, where people will vote NP just for honesty as it was vote against very corrupt Cong in Orrissa. That endured for sometime. Suddenly they have NM who is honest and can give growth (which Naveen babu cannot, he can give you honesty though), so people who are looking for both are coming here.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 13 Apr 2014 10:00

fanne, Odissa or Kalinga has a historical role. The roup it supports or rather does not oppose rules North India and India.

debadutta · Post by **debadutta** » 13 Apr 2014 10:13

fanne wrote:If BJP does good in Orissa, or even does good than BJD, I will be least surprised. Few points to ponder on Orissa, it is one of the most conservative states in India (read conservative = Indic= 'Communal'). The people are simpler, and the % population of Indic religion is 97%. ....

I agree with you that people are very communal ( = indic)

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BJP had good traction (Late 90s / Early 2000's ), but during the 10 years of joint Govt, they ceded political space to BJD and ended up with ~15% votes ( 6 assembly , 0 LS) in 2009 elections. Their performance since 2009 has been poor to say the least .
BJP has traditionally been stronger in western odisha (polls held on 10th) , but they lost badly even there in the recent elections.

This time , there is a lot of latent support for Modi. What is not clear is that how much of that latent support is going to be translated into actual votes.

Personally, I hope that people will vote Modi for LS and NP for State Assembly.

abhijitm · Post by **abhijitm** » 13 Apr 2014 10:17

vivek.rao wrote:Why US/Britain and idiotic media in these countries are suddenly on anti-Modi drive?

One of the reason could be that Sauds are vehemently opposing Modi. You just need to glance through Arab News. Highly venomous. I am getting to believe there is lot of saudi money floating across the world in anti-modi campaign. I am not worried about that. But I am worried about how they might be influencing Indian muslims.

debadutta · Post by **debadutta** » 13 Apr 2014 10:37

Singha wrote:how is orissa doing economically? the congis have scapped and stalled every big project that came to its shores.
perhaps they thought using a mix of poverty, doles, EJ manna and gandhi magic will bring them back into power later?

From what i have seen there has been growth . Mining /Education /Real Estate are the growth sectors.
Naveen's govt has done good work in infrastructure (basics like good roads etc. in both rural as well as urban areas ) .
Plus there are the usual dole/pro poor scheme like 1 rupee Rice etc.

Naveen has been able to successfully communicate to the people that big projects are getting delayed due to Cong. Govt at the center. He is seen as running a less corrupt( compared to previous Congress Govt ) and more capable Govt .

Govt's recent handling of phailin has won him a lot of admirers . 99 cyclone caused 10000+ deaths where as this time it was limited to <30 . I think just that incident is enough for people to conclude that he is not just another 'honest' leader like MMS.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 11:07

iMac_too ‏@iMac_too 3h

MMS has hit Madam where it hurts most. She knew book was coming but after 16th May. Wily Sardar got it released in the middle of campaign.

MediaCrooks ‏@mediacrooks 3h

Congi RandeepSurjewala: "Sanjay Baru is a known Modi strategist"..Then Congis are bigger duffers to have employed him at PMO @headlinestoday

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 11:13

Added later: Become a household name not just to enter politics but to "build" another progressive "rubber stamp" should such a need arise in the future.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 11:22

Swami on Robber vadra

IBTL ‏@IndiaBTL 12m

“@ANI_news: Wo to dacoit hai, chor se bhi bada: Subramanian Swamy on Robert Vadra pic.twitter.com/eyq16rOOkf”

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Advani says Modi is the next PM, ready to take any role BJP gives him http://ibnlive.in.com/news/advani-says- ... 3-238.html …

Arjun · Post by **Arjun** » 13 Apr 2014 12:05

Why isn't the BJP raising as an issue to EC the multiple Chandu Sahus competing in Mahasamund ? Surely the malefide intent behind this is obvious.

SanjayC · Post by **SanjayC** » 13 Apr 2014 12:06

Now watching "Third Degree" on Aaj Tak. Ravi Shankar Prasad being grilled by three hostile interviewers (including Prasoon Bajpai of "Bahut Hi Krantikari" fame.) It's an ambush and he is being battered from all sides. How can BJP leaders not recognize a trap when they see one? What's the need for three interviewers instead of one in an interview? The hostility toward Prasad is unbelievable. One interviewer even stood up from his seat shouting at him. One stops throwing question at him and another jumps in with another hostile question. They are not allowing him to speak at all without interrupting. These BJP people are naive that they can't recognize their enemies and keep walking into traps.

abhijitm · Post by **abhijitm** » 13 Apr 2014 12:18

This victimisation of Modi also has helped a lot! But I agree BJP must be more careful especially at this moment.

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 13 Apr 2014 12:21

^^^

It can be seen as deliberately going into enemy territory to fly your flag there. The other choice would be abdication.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 13 Apr 2014 12:23

April 12 phase turnout

Code: Select all

Tripura
Seat    2009    2014
East    83%    83%

Assam (repoll)
Seat   2009    2014
AutoDist  69%   75%
Karimganj   69%    75%
Silchar   69%    75%

Sikkim
Seat   2009   2014
Gangtok   84%   76%*

Goa
Seat   2009   2014
North  ??   78.6%
South   ??   75.14%

* Incomplete data

This election continues to break turnout records everywhere, in the north and now in the south:
Goa breaks record with 76.82 percent turnout

Voters came out in overwhelming numbers Saturday, breaking all records as Goa saw a whopping 76.82 percent of its over one million electorate exercising their franchise in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. The turnout is a rise from over half of the electorate (55.36 percent in 2009) to over three-fourths now.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 13 Apr 2014 12:47

abhijitm wrote:
vivek.rao wrote:Why US/Britain and idiotic media in these countries are suddenly on anti-Modi drive?
One of the reason could be that Sauds are vehemently opposing Modi. You just need to glance through Arab News. Highly venomous. I am getting to believe there is lot of saudi money floating across the world in anti-modi campaign. I am not worried about that. But I am worried about how they might be influencing Indian muslims.

the KSA has poisoned everything it came across like in Krishna there is a clan of serpents who poison the water and kill cows everyday. Krishna finally dives in, defeats their leader and spares his life on the condition he takes his clan out of the area and never returns.

the back of the KSA and EJ funding machine needs to be broken like a rotten piece of wood.

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 13 Apr 2014 13:33

Lucknow Congress President resigns
http://www.ptinews.com/news/4604484_Luc ... signs.html

Lucknow, Apr 13 (PTI) In a setback to the party, Congress Lucknow president Neeraj Bora today dissolved the city unit and resigned, alleging that present policies of the party and personal agenda of its leaders were not in the interest of the country.

"I am resigning from the primary membership of the party as I feel that present policies and personal agenda of its leaders are not in the interest of the country", Bora said.

member_28352 · Post by **member_28352** » 13 Apr 2014 13:48

Aadhar/UIDAI was an American fraud perpetrated on gullible Indians. Objectives were manifold. Primary was to obtain bio-metric information of Indians to enable mass culling initiatives of the NWO via boiotechnology. Shorter term it was for plain old fashioned NSA style policing, similar to what NSA does to Massan sheeple. In addition bania giri was done by selling database to EJ organizations. Added benefits were subversion via akrishtaniti. Lastly an ambitious sepoy, Italikeni was coopted to lead the effort. Italikeni was successor to MMS as appointed by massan viceroy of India aka US ambassador.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 13 Apr 2014 13:51

all could be true except the biotechnology part because no blood or dna sample was taken. the only biometric data was fingerprinting. the photo was taken use basic webcame only.

member_28468 · Post by **member_28468** » 13 Apr 2014 14:19

Two aap ki adalat on saturday one on india tv with namo and one on colors with kapil and rajat sharma both are great but have to leave kapil for namo .
But what a interview just fabulous brilliant

AjitK · Post by **AjitK** » 13 Apr 2014 14:25

nageshks wrote:
VikramS wrote:nageshks:

I think BJP volunteers should openly state that

"The EJ & Muslims are so desperate to stop NaMo. It time religious leaders interference be stopped. Show them that in a secular country, religion based appeals should be defeated. Vote for secularism, vote for Modi".
I don't know if it will make the slightest difference. Nandan Nilekani cannot speak Kannada (he refused to speak Kannada in a public meeting, because his Kannada is very poor), but may still get elected from Bangalore South. It is such a shame, but there it is.

Nagesh saar, BJP could just highlight the fact that a vote for Nilekani is a vote for Rahul Gandhi. The party could take out ads as well. It might help. In all interviews I've seen of Nilekani and reports about his campaign, he appears to be extremely embarrassed about his association with the Congress and Rahul Gandhi. I think he wasn't even present in Rahul Gandhi's rally in Bangalore.

In fact, he talks as if he is in an election for a municipal corporation. In every interview the bugger talks about how this election is not about national issues but about electing a candidate to look after local issues. He is a first rate snake oil salesman.

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 13 Apr 2014 14:29

tifwiw,Overheard conversation among SDRes in Madras-vijaykanth is going to get a blank.

AjitK · Post by **AjitK** » 13 Apr 2014 14:46

Steady rise for BJP in West Bengal

Kasba, Santoshpur, Garia or Salimpur are mid-sized residential areas on the south-eastern fringe of Kolkata, housing a few lakh voters. Post Partition, the areas have been predominantly inhabited by middle income group Hindu Bengalis and had never witnessed any sakhas (branch) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), till a decade ago.

The only sakha that was started “and shut down,” owing to lack of people’s participation, was the one further east at a place called Patuli. The Patuli sakha, however, has been running successfully over the last “three years,” said the sanghpalak of the sakha, Pradeep Banerjee.

“We are getting very few people – may be eight or ten – but even that was impossible few years back,” said Mr. Banerjee. Sakhas are daily conventions where discussions take place within the ambit of Hindu religious and nationalist identity. Sammelans are similar meetings, held on a weekly basis. Besides one permanent sakha in Patuli, three sammelans have started in the area — in Garia, Garfa in Kasba and Rabindrapalli — over the last few months.

The rise of the RSS in an area predominantly controlled by the Communists over the last three decades (Naxals had a base here in the 1970s) has surprised many. Such a rise, naturally, raises many questions. One, whether the RSS’ rise is connected to the rise of the ruling party in Bengal, Trinamool Congress (TMC)? Secondly, will it help the BJP mobilise votes in the State?

Left hopes BJP surge will eat into Mamata’s votes

At times sworn enemies can be of help to each other, albeit indirectly. In the current political winds of West Bengal, no one knows it better than the Left. While their leaders keep on targeting the BJP, Left organisers rely on the perceived saffron surge to lift the red boat wrecked by Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in 2011 elections.

Now that the BJP has emerged as a double-edged sword to the votebank of Trinamool and the Left, backroom boys in the CPM headquarters at Alimuddin Street are busy doing a SWOT analysis of the vulnerable segments the Left might lose to the BJP vis-a-vis the gains due to vote division in the event of a swing towards BJP.
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However, the projected "vote division" due to the BJP factor and the Trinamool's going it alone has become the key factor in almost half of the state's 42 parliamentary constituencies. So much so, that a top state Congress leader admitted that he won't be surprised if Rahul Sinha wins from Kolkata North. CPM leaders, on the other hand, mentioned how the BJP is playing the hindu card in Birbhum, Malda, Murshidabad and Jangipur to consolidate its votebank. Local party organizers would extend the BJP factor in urban and semi-urban constituencies as well — Kolkata North, Barasat, Serampore, Asansol, Dum Dum and Barrackpore.

The possible vote division has become the lifeline to CPM organisers. They see a possibility of the Left now reaching the double-digit mark (10-14 seats) when two months ago, they could hardly expect more than two — Jalpaiguri and Alipurduars in north Bengal.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 15:29

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More on Cong's 'Cash-Crunch' in the run up to LS election! From Coomi's column in IE today pic.twitter.com/BTq18x7jxm

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 15:42

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Islam says that if a married or an unmarried girl goes with a man she is to be punished: Abu Azmi pic.twitter.com/OIiCiBP3Ww

AjitK · Post by **AjitK** » 13 Apr 2014 16:15

Narendra Modi’s march to 7 Race Course has begun

If what I have witnessed on Thursday after driving through hundreds of kilometres cutting across several constituencies of Western Uttar Pradesh, holds true in the rest of the state and has a traction effect on neighbouring areas, it appears then that Bharatiya Janata Party presidential nominee, Narendra Modi, has begun his march to 7, Race Course Road with more than a steady canter.
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Booth level agents of other parties did not protest at election officers turning a blind eye as there was no protest from agents of other parties. They were in fact acting as double-agents. As a result, multiple voting was fairly routine at several booth in both rural and urban areas. I was a witness to incidents who details cannot be revealed because it may compromise people who assisted me to get a ringside view of what was happening.

Events like polling officers not scrutinising EVICs, not insisting on alternate identification papers in its absence, not matching the faces on the election slip with the person standing in front to cast their votes and finally not dabbing the index finger with indelible ink. Even as I write these lines there are memories of fingers of both hands dabbed with the black mark.

All this has been possible because of a perceptible wave. People did not turn out to vote for any candidate or a party, they voted for Modi. As I returned to Muzaffarnagar city, a huge crowd had assembled outside the BJP campaign office. Celebrations had already broken out!

This may eventually turn out to be premature, but what was visible in the embedded position I had through the day, made it appear that this could well turn out to be bigger than a wave.

Of course, there has also been high turnout at election stations in Muslim majority areas. There were reports through the day that similar takeover was happening there in favour of either of the non-BJP parties, mostly either BSP or SP. This further motivated BJP workers. Polling was at its fairest at elections booth located in colonies that have a mixed electorate. But then these are few and far in between.

https://twitter.com/hiambuj

Bogus voting happening in my village (Faloda, Muzaffarnagar). One person voting atleat thrice, for BJP. Police & officers not acting.

My aunt's vote has already been voted by someone. People are voting for others too. All bogus votes for BJP.

I confronted 'peethaseen adhikari'. He was accomplice. Didn't act. I created ruckus, started clicking pics. Few of my fellow villagers came. Tried to convince on Communal grounds, telling muslims are also doing same in their dominant villages.

Election officers were bought out, no ink was put on bogus voters. I'll file complaint when I return from my village.

Voting % in my village in Muzaffarnagar was 86+. 50+ booths in area had 80+. Even the dead voted for BJP. Such was the level of bogus voting

Go through his timeline. He is an AAP supporter. Angry chap.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 16:24

Jehangir Pocha ‏@JehangirPocha 4h

Because MMS knew the army would resist withdrawing from Siachen, it appointed an Air Marshal (Shashi Tyagi) to head the project.

Jehangir Pocha ‏@JehangirPocha 4h

@Dst13comptroler Yes. Same Shashi Tyagi of Westland Agusta. All a comfortable cabal. You scratch my back....

Sanjay · Post by **Sanjay** » 13 Apr 2014 16:25

Any feedback on how BJP doing in seats so far ? Unofficial of course ?