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Polling begins for Phase IV of LS elections

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:56:16 +0000

Voting began on Thursday across eight States and Union Territories, including Delhi, to elect 85 MPs in the fourth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha elections.

As many as 9.46 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase, in which 1,315 candidates including 119 women are in the fray.

BJP President Rajnath Singh (Ghaziabad), Congress’ Pranab Mukherjee (Jangipur), SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav (Mainpuri), RJD supremo Lalu Prasad (Pataliputra) and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah (Srinagar) are the big names contesting in this phase.

Other prominent candidates include Congress’ Kapil Sibal (Chandni Chowk), Sachin Pilot (Ajmer), Shekhar Suman (Patna Saheb), Ajay Maken (New Delhi), BJP’s Shatrughan Sinha (Patna Saheb), HJC’s Bhajan Lal (Hisar) and RLD’s Ajit Singh (Baghpat).

Polling, which commenced at 7 am, is being held across 1.29 lakh booths.

Since the polls began on April 16, election has been completed to 372 seats of the 545-member Lok Sabha. Elections are held only to 543 seats, as two members are nominated from the Anglo-Indian community.

Polling to all the 25 seats in Rajasthan, 10 in Haryana and seven in Delhi will be completed at one go. Elections will also be held to three seats in Bihar, one in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Punjab, 18 in Uttar Pradesh and 17 in West Bengal

Purandheswari to campaign in Vijayawada today

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:21:58 +0000

Daggubati Purandeshwari, the daughter of the founder of T.D.P, late N.T.R is to tour Vijayawada today. Purandheswari is known for her straight forward speeches and does not ape the style of her late father.

She has managed to establish an individual image for herself and is a part of the Congress unlike the remaining Nandamuri clan. Purandheswari openly accused Chandrababu Naidu of back-stabbing her father to capture power in the state.

She has however fulifilled her responsibilities as a daughter of the family by being available for the family during time of crisis. Purandheswari enjoys a sustained popularity among the female crowd and is the female face of the Nandamuri family. It would be an exciting campaign speech in Vijayawada today.

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Opinion: Predictions for AP Elections 2009

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:49:21 +0000

These people like Srinivasa Manapragada and Prabhu Koduri do not make any sense to me. Both of these parties (TDP and Praja Rajyam) have been very active in organizing their rallies and meeting here in the US. They both sling mud at each other and at Congress. When Srinivasa Manapragada talks about Jr. NTR and his relations with Nandamuri family and CBN in a bad way, Prabhu Koduri comes up with all these points against Chiru and family. He kept on talking bad about them and at the same time he kept on asking if he should talk about it. We all know what he was doing in his piece there. If he was very decent man, he could have simply said that he could bad about Chiru family too. That would have put everything in the right perspective. Also, he talked about PrajaRajyam supporters should be concentrating on their careers or otherwise TDP and Jr. NTR have to send them monthly rations and 2000Rs to your bank accounts to help them survive. I guess the same thought process should be applied to all these people (both TDP and PRP), who are wasting their time organizing rallies and meetings. Congress people here do not need this as you won’t see them in these activities. And one other thing in response to Prabhu Koduri: Andhra Pradesh is not your estate for you to feel that TDP and Jr. NTR will provide rations. CBN and TDP may never win this Election 2009 or any in future. Also, would CBN and co take Rajakeeya Sanyasam if they fail in their predictions too?

Now let’s get in to predictions for AP Election 2009. These are based on my observation, talking to different people in AP and of course reading news papers and their surveys. I call it Bhavishyavani and you can call it an observation! Please be reminded that I do not believe in any of our newspapers and their ability to be objective in writing news and stories. I read them but I take them with a grain of salt. If Eenadu’s predictions of sweep have to come true, the election commission has to allow only one caste (kamma) to participate in voting!

Assembly

Phase 1 (154 Seats):
Congress: 65-70, TDP Kootami: 60-65, PRP: 10-15, MIM: 7, Others 5-8

Phase 2 (140 Seats):
Congress: 80-85, TDP Kootami: 30-35, PRP: 20-25, Others 5-8

Total (294 Seats):

Congress: 145-155, TDP Kootami: 90-100, PRP: 30-40, MIM: 7, Others 10-16

Loksabha

Phase 1 (22 Seats):
Congress: 10-12, TDP Kootami: 8-10, PRP: 1-2, MIM: 1, Others 0-1

Phase 2 (20 Seats):
Congress: 12-14, TDP Kootami: 5-6, PRP: 2-3, Others 0

Total (42 Seats):

Congress: 22-26, TDP Kootami: 13-16, PRP: 3-5, MIM: 1, Others 0-1

Please do not rush to your conclusions right away and thro some numbers in response to my predictions. Think and respond with your number and be man enough to agree you were wrong if they do not come close to reality. I will do the same.

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Today last day for 2nd phase campaigning

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:19:29 +0000

The time for campaigning in the 2nd phase of elections has come to an end today.The Election Commission has issued strict orders to candidates and news channels to restrain from campaigning such as road shows,meetings,advertisements in news channels,Interviews with candidates,and survey reports and analysis etc after 4.00pm today.

Meanwhile,leaders from all parties have been giving it their fullest efforts to create the maximum impact and then leave the rest to their lucky stars.As the temperatures are soaring high,so are the confidence levels of the candidates.

Many candidates are a tensed lot, as there is 3 cornered contest this time in all the segments.
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No Majority in First Phase:Intelligence Reports

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:41:21 +0000

The 1st phase of elections in Telangana and North Andhra have been over,and political parties are already into calculations as to how many their party will get.Each and every party is confident of victory and are upbeat in their moods.

The Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy says that Congress is going to get around 110 seats in the 1st phase at any cost.Next in the line is the Mahakutami comprising of TDP,TRS,CPI,CPI-M.They too are sounding confident and are saying that they will get around 100-115 seats.Adding to this list is the relatively new party,Prajarajyam,which has often been called as an underdog in Telangana.PRP chief Chiranjeevi is saying that his party is going to get anywhere between 70-75 seats.He says there is a silent wave for the prajarajyam party.

Keeping all these calculations aside,there are some Intelligence Reports coming from different quarters.According to these reports,no party is going to get full majority in the 1st phase.The much hyped development mantra and it’s stance on Telangana didn’t impress the voter much for the ruling Congress and they are expected to get 30-40 seats.

The Mahakutami thought that their colour tv and cash transfer scheme would work wonders for them and bring them votes.But again the voters didn’t fall prey to these political gimmicks and it is said to be getting around 40-50 seats.

The next comes film actor turned politician Chiranjeevi’s Prajarajyam party.What is surprising is that Chiru’s PRP successfully made dents to all the parties like Congress,TDP,and TRS.Even though being underdogs and with no cadre at all in the Telangana region,PRP is going to fare well when compared to older parties and is likely to get around 25-30 seats.Other parties like BJP,MIM,MBT and Independents might get around 10-15 seats.

The other region where polls were held simultaneously was North Andhra comprising of Vizag,Vizianagaram and Srikakulam.Here Mega Star’s PRP is quite strong right from the beginning and it is likely to bag around 20-25 seats,the Congress around 4-7 and the Telugu Desam party is likely to get around 3-5 seats.

What ever the reports say,all the parties are convinced that they will win majority of the seats in the first phase and have an upper hand in the second phase of elections which will be held on April 23.

Well,no guesses until May 16th.

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Money Distribution In Coastal Districts

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:17:49 +0000

The elections – 2009 has seen some really drastic changes in the way the politicians have been operating when it comes to distributing money and buying vote banks. Though no one admits it, this is the darkest truth of the politics in India that note gets the vote.

However, luck has favored the authorities a bit during the first phase as they managed to catch a haul of some fair amount of cash tuning upto few crores across the Telangana region. So this is said to have alerted the leaders who are contesting in the second phase and they have come up with some precautionary measures so that they don’t get caught in the distribution process. It is heard that huge amounts are being given away to various lower cadre leaders and workers to ensure that the votes fall to their own party and since rigging and booth capturing has become difficult these days, the parties are opting to go for the bribing and buying mode.
Inside sources say that despite giving the money to the voters, it is not always sure that they would vote for the same party but then that is taken out as about 5-8% and the rest of the votes usually come to them. It is known that politics is a dirty game but then it cannot get dirtier than this.
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ETV, Sakshi Forgetting Responsibilities With Fighting

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:34:05 +0000

There was a time when the news channels worked with an ethical code of conduct and had a responsibility to bring the truth and also have answerability towards the people. These days, all that has gone down the drain and all that remains is the voice of the powerful.

That seemed to be the inference many made when they have been watching the Sakshi and ETV channels. It looked like they were some bitter rivals at college who would get to fist fights at the drop of a hat. The election – 2009 became a platform for both channels to vent out their hatred for each other’s parties.

While ETV has been known to be a strong TDP sympathizer, Sakshi has been known for its outright Congress support for obvious reasons. In order to sing their favorite party songs, they did not hesitate to come up with nasty animations and special features that would mark the mud slinging in the highest order.

With this, the viewers have complained that both channels who hold a fairly responsible position in the society and cause a fair amount of impact on the society are busy bringing out their personal differences without thinking twice about their viewers. We might be proud of being the world’s largest democracy but this seems to be the real side of it.

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Andhra Pradesh STATE ELECTION COMMISSION

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:17:20 +0000

List of Political Parties in Andhra Pradesh State.

Click Here http://www.apsec.gov.in:8080/apsec/polilitcalpartindex.htm

Contact Election comission Andhra pradesh

Andhra Pradesh STATE ELECTION COMMISSION
3 rd Floor, BUDDHA BHAVAN, M.G. Road, Secunderabad-500 003

More Details: http://www.apsec.gov.in:8080/apsec/secpersonnel.htm

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Over 65 percent polling in Andhra Pradesh

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:15:29 +0000

Over 65 percent of 31.2 million electors Thursday cast their votes in the first phase of elections in Andhra Pradesh where ballotting was held for 22 Lok Sabha and 154 assembly constituencies.

Barring minor incidents of violence, the polling remained peaceful. No radical leftwing violence was reported from any part of the state, once a stronghold of the Maoist movement in the country.

Polling ended at 4 p.m. However, in some polling booths officials allowed those standing in the queue to cast their votes even after the scheduled time.

The state’s Chief Electoral Officer I.V. Subba Rao told reporters this evening that polling was still on in 300 to 400 polling centres as authorities extended the timing in view of the delay caused in the morning due to technical snags in electronic voting machines (EVMs).

He said 65 percent of the 31.2 million voters, half of them women, cast their votes, sealing the fate of 2,148 candidates including 315 for the Lok Sabha.

The final poll percentage will be known after 9 p.m., he said.

The Medak Lok Sabha constituency recorded highest poll percentage of 75 while Hyderabad recorded the lowest at 54 percent.

“The polling was peaceful and smooth except for an incident in the Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha constituency,” he said.

Hyderabad and nine other districts in Telangana as well as three districts of north coastal Andhra bordering Orissa went to polls in the first phase.

The ruling Congress party and the four-party alliance led by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) are locked in a neck-and-neck battle in the first phase. The Praja Rajyam Party of superstar Chiranjeevi is the third major political force.

Among the prominent Lok Sabha candidates are central ministers S. Jaipal Reddy, Renuka Chowdhury and D. Purandareswari, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhara Rao and state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bandaru Dattatreya.

In the Alampur assembly segment of the Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha constituency in Mahbubnagar district, villagers attacked polling stations and damaged EVMs. The polling had to be stopped in 17 polling centres. The incident occurred in Aiza area where people were protesting their inclusion in the Alampur constituency in the delimitation process.

Subba Rao said the matter was referred to the Election Commission, which will take a decision on re-poll in these booths.

Re-poll is also likely in a few other booths where the poll officials failed to operate EVMs as per the guidelines or committed some mistakes.

Clashes between activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) were reported in some places in the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency. There were reports of similar clashes between Congress and TDP activists in some constituencies. The polling, however, was not affected.

More than 60,000 policemen and 123 companies of paramilitary forces were deployed as part of the massive security arrangements.

Though the Maoist movement has considerably weakened in the state, police are on high alert, especially in areas bordering Chhattisgarh and Orissa.

Four helicopters were put on standby to ferry men and material as a precautionary measure but they were not used.

TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chiranjeevi and his family members, CEO Subba Rao, Director General of Police A.K. Mohanty and several others cast their votes in Hyderabad.

Popular actor and TDP star campaigner ‘Junior NTR’ came to a polling station on a stretcher and cast his vote. The star, who was injured in a road accident, reached the centre in an ambulance.

The second phase of polls April 23 will cover 20 Lok Sabha and 150 assembly constituencies in south coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema.

Counting will be taken up May 16.

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Re-polling only in 20 stations

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:12:45 +0000

Re-polling is likely to be held only in 20 polling stations, where polling could not be held either due to minor clashes or non-functioning of electronic voting machines.

Chief Electoral Officer I V Subba Rao said there was absolutely no disturbance from Maoists this time. Polling was suspended in 14 polling stations at Aiza village of Nagarkurnool LS constituency in Mahabubnagar district, as a large section of voters boycotted polling in protest against inclusion of the village in Alampur constituency. They clashed with other section of voters who were standing in queue for voting and destroyed the EVMs.

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