Statewide and National runup to 2014 General elections

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 13 Apr 2014 16:40

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

My only feedback in fourth phase is from Silchar, where BJP seems to be doing well. With 75%+ voting, BJP should be safely home. Out of the 8 seats in Assam where polling has been held, I can confidently give BJP at least 3.

bhargava · Post by **bhargava** » 13 Apr 2014 16:44

Facepalm of the day

Nilekani420 posts a selfie of his (Nira)adhaar card, name reads "Nandan Mohan Nilekani"
Wikipedia entry says name is "Nandan Manohar Nilekani"

Manhohar hua Mohan because of Aadhaar
Ab ki baar Modi Sarkaar

Malayappan · Post by **Malayappan** » 13 Apr 2014 16:46

nageshks wrote:
Sanjay wrote:Any feedback on how BJP doing in seats so far ? Unofficial of course ?
My only feedback in fourth phase is from Silchar, where BJP seems to be doing well. With 75%+ voting, BJP should be safely home. Out of the 8 seats in Assam where polling has been held, I can confidently give BJP at least 3.

Atanu Bhuyan (ex?) Newsline gives Silchar and Diphu to BJP. Karimganj to AIUDF.

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 13 Apr 2014 17:03

Nagsheks ji, Atanu Bhuyan has predicted out of 8, 6 BJP, 1 Con, 1 AIUDF. He has been quite accurate before.

harbans · Post by **harbans** » 13 Apr 2014 17:06

Is it coming anywhere near this as yet?

bhargava · Post by **bhargava** » 13 Apr 2014 17:08

Aadhaar seems to be the punching bag today ( rightly so )

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 13 Apr 2014 17:32

This Election is Tsunamo and not some wave. We will know only when it hits the shores of Delhi on 16th May.

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 13 Apr 2014 17:36

fanne wrote:Nagsheks ji, Atanu Bhuyan has predicted out of 8, 6 BJP, 1 Con, 1 AIUDF. He has been quite accurate before.

It is quite possible BJP will get 6. However, IMO, some of them like Tezpur are close, so I am not as confident as Atanu Bhuiyan.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 13 Apr 2014 17:39

ramana wrote: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?

Yes,
http://affidavitarchive.nic.in/DynamicA ... davit.aspx
Select State and then Select Parliamentary Constituency. It will give list of Valid contesting candidates and their party status with link to affidavits.

jamwal · Post by **jamwal** » 13 Apr 2014 18:23

AjitK wrote:

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.

I know this guy from a travel forum

member_23061 · Post by **member_23061** » 13 Apr 2014 18:45

We need Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Is the NDA in a good position there? NDTV reports that Congress is leading in Karnataka. Me lungi shivering at that possibility.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 13 Apr 2014 18:47

Jayalalithaa slams BJP, says it is no different from Congress

KARUR/PERAMBALUR: In her first ever attack against BJP in her ongoing election campaign, AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday said the party was no different from Congress on the emotive Cauvery issue.

-With an eye on Lok Sabha seats in the elections the saffron party has not even mentioned the issue in its 2014 poll manifesto,- she said in back-to-back election rallies in Karur and Perambalur constituencies.

Slamming Congress, DMK and BJP for their -betrayal- of the state on the vexed river water dispute, she asked the state electorate to give a firm drubbing to the candidates of all three parties, saying they should lose deposit in the April 24 Lok Sabha polls.

Going down memory lane, Ms. Jayalalithaa reasoned that she had quit NDA in 1999 on the Cauvery issue, after her pleas for implementation of the interim award of the Cauvery Tribunal by a body of officials with control over Karnataka dams were not heeded to by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Instead, he had constituted Cauvery River Water Authority with Prime Minister as its head and four southern state Chief Ministers as members even as DMK was ruling Tamil Nadu then.

-I opposed the Authority as it would be of no use. Since the BJP declined to form an empowered group of officials, and that serving no justice for Tamil Nadu, I withdrew AIADMK from the government and party�s support to NDA later,- she said.

The Centre then approached Mr. Karunanidhi to get his approval for setting up of the Authority after which DMK aligned with BJP and also participated in the Cabinet, she said.

Ms. Jayalalithaa�s attack, which came on a day when BJP leader Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a public meeting in Chennai, is the first direct one against the latter as opposition parties including DMK and Congress have questioned her election strategy of sparing BJP from any criticism.

While the chances of both Congress and BJP to form government in the upper riparian state of Karnataka were equal, neither could do the same in Tamil Nadu and therefore both parties had similar approach towards the Cauvery issue, she alleged.

Either TN NDA has become a serious political rival to AIADMK, or the Modi-Rajnikant meeting must have jolted Amma!

Source

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 13 Apr 2014 18:59

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 13 Apr 2014 19:11

Prem Kumar wrote:Awesome job everyone!! #Nilekani420 is trending on Twitter. Lets keep going strong

Gret job, Prem Kumar-Sir, I'm finding it easier to engage people by e-mails, and going back and forth with many fence-sitters.

Since charity begins at home, I'm making sure that about 15 of my folks stick to Kamal Chhaap.

Ashok Sarraff · Post by **Ashok Sarraff** » 13 Apr 2014 19:16

^On that note, by this morning, I have obtained confirmation from 100 of my friends and relatives that they will vote for Modi. The only problem was, they were already going to do so without any prodding.

Going by the support to Modi across different sections of the society in social and geographical terms, I have started believing that it is going to be a TsuNamo.

Sanjay · Post by **Sanjay** » 13 Apr 2014 19:19

How bad is karnataka looking ?

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 13 Apr 2014 19:33

pandyan ji,
which temple town are you talking about?

Arjun · Post by **Arjun** » 13 Apr 2014 19:33

bhargava wrote:Nilekani420 posts a selfie of his (Nira)adhaar card, name reads "Nandan Mohan Nilekani"
Wikipedia entry says name is "Nandan Manohar Nilekani"

Wiki also says Nandan's father subscribed to Fabian Socialist ideals that influenced Nilekani in his early years

This is interesting information. No wonder NRN and Nandan - two socialist-inclined persons stayed back in India and teamed up....The lucky geezers were in the right place at the right time, from POV of their net worths. NRN seems to be the relatively smarter one and wisened up fast - but Nandan's 'Fabian Socialism' seems to have stayed put.

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 13 Apr 2014 19:34

Requesting all having friends and relatives in West Bengal, please e-mail/call/chat with as many as
possible and request them to vote for NaMo. My own experience - Just bringing up two issues have
been extremely helpful: (i) Mamata's unabashed support for minorities overlooking the grievances of
hindus (/allowing unchecked illegal immigration); and (ii) We desperately need to create jobs and bring down the unemployment rate.

Please, please, please.........

vivek.rao · Post by **vivek.rao** » 13 Apr 2014 19:36

Spoke to 200 people in B'lore apartment complex of my sister. 16 Modified, 12 CONgis will abstain because they can't vote for any one, rest all decided to vote for Modiji

Interesting thing is women are more against FAMILY and for Modi. Was very happy to notice

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 19:38

Firstpost ‏@firstpostin 18m

In Karnataka, JD(S) struggles to keep its flock together http://dlvr.it/5NmmKf

Bangalore: The JD(S) in Karnataka is grappling with a problem of massive proportions. Just when the party was looking to staging a revival of sorts by putting up a decent performance in the general elections, it has been struck by defections. So far, two official candidates of the JD(S) have been poached by the Congress, while the BJP has managed to neutralise the JD(S) to its advantage in one parliamentary segment.

While poaching of leaders from opposition parties during elections is commonplace what is raising eyebrows is entire party units in either a particular assembly segment or in the entire parliamentary constituency switching loyalty, reducing party candidates to a laughing stock.

SRoy · Post by **SRoy** » 13 Apr 2014 19:44

Kati wrote:Requesting all having friends and relatives in West Bengal, please e-mail/call/chat with as many as
possible and request them to vote for NaMo. My own experience - Just bringing up two issues have
been extremely helpful: (i) Mamata's unabashed support for minorities overlooking the grievances of
hindus (/allowing unchecked illegal immigration); and (ii) We desperately need to create jobs and bring down the unemployment rate.

Please, please, please.........

Already done so in social circle and in office. Except one idiot in office all are on board.
People are already aware of the issues you listed.
What's missing is a viable platform with an identifiable face. RSS has its task cut out in WB.

It's the unpolished (read ...not Westernized) folks from far off districts that had already made up their minds, so they didn't need convincing. It is the Kolkata's bhadralok class that are the problem.

SaraLax · Post by **SaraLax** » 13 Apr 2014 19:51

svenkat wrote:pandyan ji,
which temple town are you talking about?

Madurai ?.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 20:06

MediaCrooks ‏@mediacrooks 1h

Hahhaa.. How desperate are Congress stooges @Timesnow and @ibnlive .. Both have been peddling bios of Indira Gandhi the whole week...

ANI ‏@ANI_news 1h

We are going with no pre-poll alliance, all options will be open except Congress-Jaganmohan Reddy

Abhijit · Post by **Abhijit** » 13 Apr 2014 20:08

I think I can call myself fortunate. My entire extended family and most of my school (there are a few AAPtards in the school group) has always voted Jansangh, Janata Party and then BJP. The whole 'secularization' or the ******** of secularism has never touched my entire extended family.

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 13 Apr 2014 20:09

Welcome to the club!!1

Sanjay · Post by **Sanjay** » 13 Apr 2014 20:13

Just remember to keep up efforts. My experience has been (albeit in different place) people say "yes" just to get you off their backs !

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 20:16

Raghunath AS ‏@asraghunath 1h

End of Lohiaism & Mandalite era: Padgaonkar BJP has 38% vote share HToday poll.

dna ‏@dna 1h

BJP polarising Udhampur constituency on communal lines: Congress http://dnai.in/c9ZF

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 13 Apr 2014 20:26

Priyanka Chaturvedi has been tweeting extensively on Siachen and Indian army. Looks like Baru's book is pinching them where it hurts.

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 13 Apr 2014 20:43

SLji
If it is indeed madurai pandyanji is talking about,it is not surprising.madurai is an overgrown village with few opportunities for educated youngsters.But caste polarisation will minimise communist tendencies.

In BRF,people tend to deride South TN because they associate the pandyan land with theo saars world view.A modibhai type personality and his worldview and policies can be a god sent opportunity for an overgrown village like madurai.

vivek.rao · Post by **vivek.rao** » 13 Apr 2014 20:53

Sonia Gandhi interview on @abpnewstv tomorrow 9pm...

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 13 Apr 2014 21:10

Sanjay wrote:How bad is karnataka looking ?

Worst case, BJP will get 8-10. Best case, BJP can get 17-18.

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

Paul wrote:Priyanka Chaturvedi has been tweeting extensively on Siachen and Indian army. Looks like Baru's book is pinching them where it hurts.

Firstpost ‏@firstpostin 49m

In social media it's going on that PM was almost ready to give up Siachen. Don't know if its true or not but PM must clarify: Modi

Must have guessed Modi will target CON on it.

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 13 Apr 2014 21:29

chaanakya wrote:This Election is Tsunamo and not some wave. We will know only when it hits the shores of Delhi on 16th May.

I tweeted this yesterday:

2004: Year of the tsunami. Voter committed hara-kiri
2014: Year of the TsuNaMo. Voter is crying Bachao

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 13 Apr 2014 21:33

Kati wrote:Requesting all having friends and relatives in West Bengal, please e-mail/call/chat with as many as
possible and request them to vote for NaMo. My own experience - Just bringing up two issues have
been extremely helpful: (i) Mamata's unabashed support for minorities overlooking the grievances of
hindus (/allowing unchecked illegal immigration); and (ii) We desperately need to create jobs and bring down the unemployment rate.

Please, please, please.........

Kati & SRoy ji: if you would like to call people in swing constituencies, plz let me know. There is a very dedicated volunteer coordinator here & many Bengalis are making lots of calls to their friends/relatives back home. The coordinator made an interesting comment on the cultural aspect - he said many Bongs do a lot of work on an individual basis to call, but very difficult to get them together as a group to do the same

SRoy · Post by **SRoy** » 13 Apr 2014 21:52

Premji,

A thousand thanks. I'll let know if time permits.

My realistic view is that even in swing constituencies, things are extremely difficult. We should be happy to see vote share go up and BJP emerge as a real alternative, which I now see looks very much possible.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 13 Apr 2014 21:53

AAP in Amethi.

satya · Post by **satya** » 13 Apr 2014 22:02

Last Update Before D-day :

Forget the rest of India . UP+ Bihar + AP is where the real battle is . Rest doesn't matter. UP is a toss for BJP : below 30 or above 55 , Bihar - anything below 25 not good, AP (- Telangana = TRS will go with ruler of dilli saffron or green doesn't matter ) : Naidu needs to drink massive energy drinks . He is finished if he fails . All rest on him.

These above 3 states will make a diff. of minimum 50 seats on either side. Maharashtra : congress's goose is cooked , Pawar cuts the deal ( Shakuni bhi kahata : Master aadmi hei Pawar ! ) . Anything above 0 in WB + NE+ Orissa is a bonus for BJP/NDA.
Haryana + Dilli will more than compensate for loss in Punjab & HP . Punjab is turning into a battle of Jat/jatt vs Jat/jatt. Congress's safe seat in Haryana is only Rohtak : jats consolidated behind INLD + anti- jats behind bjp-HJC leaving Congress way behind. There's no AAP in north anymore as of now .
Rajasthan + Gujrat + Uttrakhand + MP 'need' to deliver 'clean sweep' for BJP.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 13 Apr 2014 22:04

Narendra Modi ‏@narendramodi 57m

Find the nearest location to join the 3D rally tomorrow...looking forward to seeing you at the rally tomorrow http://indiancag.org/namo-campaign-trai ... ng=English …

KrishG · Post by **KrishG** » 13 Apr 2014 22:10

Watching the TimesNow debate. Sudanshu Trivedi is so unfit to be a BJP spokesperson. He isn't able to provide coherent views and answers to the questions asked of the BJP. Why do BJP persist with such people as spokesperson? Actually, Swapan Dasgupta was doing a better job putting across the BJP perspective and asking tough questions than the BJP spokesperson and the best part Swapan called Vinod Mehta a congress agent (which we know he his) on air.