The BJP led by Narendra Modi is set to become the First Government in India in twenty-five years to lead the country on its own, with no Coalition.
It looks, as the trends indicate, the Congress is likely to lose so heavily that it might not even qualify as an Opposition in the 2014 Loka Sabha, by not reaching the 55 seats needed to become one.
Rahul G.andhi.
Seems that AIADMK , led by Jayalalitaa in Tamil Nadu or TMC led by Mamata Bannerjee are in the race to be the largest single party in the 21014 Lok Sabha.
Narendra Modi.
Watch the Live Interactive Results of the election results.
(This does not take into account the Black Money being spent by the parties and the candidates)
As general elections draw closer, ‘unaccounted money’ may account for over one-third of total Rs 30,000 crore estimated to be spent on these polls, a study says.
*(Rs I Crore in dollars is 214,431)
While various national and regional parties are estimated to spend Rs 8,000-10,000 crore for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, candidates at their
individual level may spend a whopping amount of Rs 10,000-13,000 crore, as per the study conducted by research think-tank CMS.
These figures include both official and unaccounted expenses.
Till the 10th of April, the Election Commission has caught about Rs,500 Crore.
The Election Commission has ordered seizure of money over Rs.Ten lakhs without proper documentation; Banks, Airports,Railroads ,Bus Stations are n the watch
The campaign trail is vast and all the known forms and some novel methods are used.
Internet ads, blogs,Paid News by TV Channels and Print Media,Media Advertising,Mobile Calls, SMS,Posters,Buntings,Leaflets, .. all tricks are resorted to.
Unique style of garnering votes in Tamil Nadu are,
Dropping a 500 Rupee Note in an Aarthi plate(traditional way of welcoming a visitor, where a plate with Turmeric powder and Vermillion is dissolved in water and shown to the Guest)
Attending personal functions like the birth of a baby, Naming the child, attending marriages, and even Death and offering Cash or donations in kind.
Offering Cheap country liquor, Biryani, a none veg delicacy free of cost.
Carting people to attend Party Public meetings in Lorries,Trucks, offering them Food, Liquor and Cash .
Visiting people at Home and offering them cash.
Falling at the feet of Elders and at times even children!
Then we have a motley group of Third front , which belongs to none of the groupings above and are awaiting the results to form a Coalition sans the Congress and BJP.
The Ruling Party is besieged with scams galore starting with Rs.i,86,000 Lakh crore 2 G Spectrum allotment in Telecom Sector,Helicopter Scam involving crores of Rupees,ISRO (Space Agency),Housing irregularities and many more.
Also there were instances of moral turpitude by the senior party members.
The economy , despite claims that the Macro economy is performing well, the price of essentials are shooting up.
There is a Prime Minister who wields no power but the Government is controlled by the leader of the Congress party, an Italian woman , the wife of Late Rajiv Gandhi, ex-Prime Minister of India.
The Family has been ruling India for three generations starting from Jawaharlal Nehru, through Indira Gandhi, his daughter and by her son Rajiv Gandhi.
Now the party has indicated that Rahul Gandhi, son of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Ministerial Candidate.
The Opposition has announced Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, of the BJP party.
Curiously India does not have a Presidential form of Government.
It has a Federal set up where the leader of the major party in the Elections outings ,shall form the Government!
The reason is that the opposition has no Policies different from the Ruling party.
But the BJP off and on plays the Hindu Card, claiming that the Hindus are not treated equally in what is essentially Hindu Country , with the Muslims.
The ruling Congress party plays the Muslim card .
And both the parties play the Caste Card regularly.
Even now, the candidates are selected based on the caste considerations, that is the candidate belonging to the caste of the Majority voters are selected.
Both the parties are equally shy of giving equal opportunities for women despite proclamations to the contrary.
On the security issues there is no difference between both the parties.
Or On the Economic Policies.
So each party is accusing the other of corruption .
While the Congress is harping on Stability factor , the BJP is calling the Congress as Corrupt.
Then the deciding factor will be the regional parties, who can decide the formation of the Government when the results are likely to be fragmented.
Though the opinion polls have revealed a high gain for BJP and the lowest ever seats for the Congress, no party, except the BJP shall get simple majority.
This would necessitate the support of the regional parties.
They shall go in for their pound of flesh in terms of Cabinet berths!
And they have their regional agenda which will be difficult to fulfil in a federal setup, ( the regional parties also know this,)
The major States that have more Lok Sabha seats,shall decide the formation of the Government are UP (80),West Bengal (42),Maharashtra(48),AP (420, Tamil Nadu,Bihar (40 each)
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is nurturing the ambitions of becoming the Prime Minister if both the congress and BJP do not get simple majority.
And the Chief Minister of Bihar too has this ambition.
Therefore the result is likely to be , as of now, the BJP might get more seats way ahead of Congress , yet shall fall short of majority.
The Regional parties might play a vital role.
Yet the charisma of the BJP prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi might sweep the polls because of the inexperience of Rahul Gandhi who shoots himself in the mouth..
Interesting News.
Election is on for one seat for Mizoram on 11 April.
Twenty-two Villagers near Delhi travelled by rowing a boat across the Yamuna River,walked for 4 kilometres to cast their votes, covering a total of 90km on 10 April.
In Tamil Nadu, a Party’s candidate was withdrawn to accommodate an opposition party candidate, who joined the Party 48 hours before!
An actor who was a Leader of the opposition in Taml Nadu, beat up the candidate in the last Elections in Tamil Nadu.
He usually comes to Public Meetings roaring drunk and does not even remember the Candidates’ Name.!
Many actors are in the fray now, but no heavy weights now.
Four actors have become Chief Ministers and were very powerful and popular and in fact one is now the powerful chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and
Would he please comment on Sonia Gandhi‘s father having been a Nazi or the information yet unconfirmed as for as I am concerned, that Sonia Gandhi was an Escort?
Or that she smuggled out Indian Antiques?
Read them in the Links provided below.
The Congress’s Digvijaya Singh and the party’s pan-India machinery, women activists ranged against Modi, and all his staunch opponents have attacked Modi over this.
This round, it seems, will go to Modi.
“The self-confessed strong man doesn’t deserve any sympathy for inviting attacks, personal or political, but the facts of Modi’s child marriage is more of a tragedy than a scandal that his critics are portraying,” says Vikram Vakil, a Surat-based senior journalist who first scooped Modi’s marriage way back in 1993 for the Gujarati political weekly Abhiyaan I had founded.
Here is a defence of Modi that an apolitical friend, based in Ahmedabad, offered to Rediff.comafter the controversy erupted. He refused to be named in this column, and says he came to know about the marriage in 2003.
“By liberal standards, all individuals are free to have their own choice of partner. The family, parents or society can’t impose their choice on a teenage son or daughter as it happened in the Modi-Jashodaben case,” this friend of Modi says.
“If 17-year-old Modi wanted to get out of the marriage, which was imposed on him by a socially backward society and his family, it’s not only ethical but his right to walk out of the forced marriage. Feminists are against the obnoxious old idea of pativrata nari. In hitting out at Modi, they will be wary of endorsing Jashodaben‘s stand too,” argues Modi’s friend from Ahmedabad.
Vakil, otherwise a staunch critic of Modi, defends him on this count. “Modi’s marriage was an accident of destiny. It was a kind of a Shakespearean tragedy where neither the man nor woman can be blamed.
Political parties find their election candidates embarrassing at times.
And the candidate , in general, has one goal, to defeat the opponent at the Polls.
Narendra Modi is one such.
The party he belongs to, at times, embarrasses him.
BJP is not a bad party, of late it is becoming a divided House.
It is so democratic that you an hear a virtual Babel Tower on every issue, with the result,the issues being debated, are lost.
Despite knowing pretty well it is Narendra Modi who has caught the imagination of a disillusioned people,many BJP leaders want to play spoil sport over Modi.
While people do want Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India, it is the BJP’s antics and funny strategies that make one pause,,
Is it worth voting BJP to ensure Narendra Modi coming to Power?
Such is the pull of warring factions.
If Modi commands respect and affection it is because of His forthrightness, calling a spade as one and his commitment to the oft touted now diluted principles of the BJP.
Despite the confusion BJP had made in stitching together alliances for the elections, this is why BJP should be voted to power, if only to ensure that Modi becomes the PM.
Pray that BJP does not throw the spanner in the works.
Why should one vote for Narendra Modi, through BJP?
Narendra Modi Quotes on Governance.
1.Transparency and Integrity.
Modis’ running of the Gujarat has been one of transpareny and he minces no words when he implements any programme for the welfare of the State.
On Free distribution of power , he declared that electricity costs money, he can not afford to offer freebies and people should pay for it.
Result Gujarat is more than self-sufficient in Power in India, the only one.
Or look at the way he appoints enquiry into his own deeds if necessary.
Or his wooing of Business, at the same time he is not being run by the corporate.
He nails them when warranted.
Infrastructure, Roads, Public distribution, way ahead of the other States.
On Godhra Riots, the Center has tried all the avenues open to it , to sully his name.
Special team, CBI and even the Supreme Court.
Embarrassing for them all of them have given a clean chit to Modi in the riots in Gujarat.
The socalled “Muslims living in fear in Gujarat’ is nullified by the declaration of the Community that Modi is not against them, but terrorism
2.Administration Open honest and swift
He is accessible, unlike the other able administrator, Jayalalithaa the CM of Tamil Nadu.
3.Modi is clear on his foreign policy be it Pakistan, Bangladesh or the US.
He does not seem to be cowed by the US nor rattled by the fact he might lose votes if he is soft with Pakistan
On immigrants in Assam, West Bengal , he is for sending them back or at least regulating them.
4.As of date none of the corruption charges made against his has stuck for there is nothing to stick.
5.He has not or is presiding over scams, starting from Bofors, through 2G, ISRO-Dewas-Antrix,,CWG,Maharashtra irrigation,Thorium,Adarsh,defence coffin purchase…
6.Nor has he had his name implicated in an Italian Court for Corruption in Westland Helicopter deal.
3.Indifference to States problems,Water, Fishermen,Immigrant issues,Statehood,in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Odishsa.
4.Confused Foreign Policy. Quarrel with the US on behalf of a Diplomat who is in the wrong, but keeping quiet on US’s Support to Pakistan ,Technology transfer issue, Visa restrictions.
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