India Election 2004

[Kishore Dandu]

Any one has info about dates for different rounds of the election and counting(results) date.
[ April 22, 2004: Message edited by: Kishore Dandu ]

[Arjun Shastry]

Originally posted by Sadanand Murthy:

I remember reading/hearing as a child that he was a Parsi.
But this site has a different explanation. I can vouch neither for the veracity of this site's claims nor for the site's integrity & objectivity.
[ April 22, 2004: Message edited by: Sadanand Murthy ]
[ April 22, 2004: Message edited by: Sadanand Murthy ]

I think his full name was Feroz Daruwala(or Daroowala)

[Arjun Shastry]

Every TV/print Channel in India has now published its own poll results based on their 'scientific methods'.Should there be a constraint on publishing these kind of results as 2/3 of election across countrywide is still in queue?Many people are saying this may affect future election results.I think nobody should be allowed to publish the poll results until the whole election process is over.

[Arjun Shastry]

Colorful election photos
Which party will you vote for
[ April 23, 2004: Message edited by: Ram Abdullah D'Souza ]

[Sadanand Murthy]

Originally posted by Ram Abdullah D'Souza:
Every TV/print Channel in India has now published its own poll results based on their 'scientific methods'.Should there be a constraint on publishing these kind of results as 2/3 of election across countrywide is still in queue?Many people are saying this may affect future election results.I think nobody should be allowed to publish the poll results until the whole election process is over.

I agree. Until all voting is complete, the election results of partial voting should not be declared. I wonder where the EC is on this.

[R K Singh]

Originally posted by Sadanand Murthy:
I wonder where the EC is on this.

There was all party meeting on the same subject. And all parties agreed to this kind of poll to be published before end of election.

[Pradeep bhatt]

Your Prime Minister`s wife does not trust you, gets her security from Italians

[Pradeep bhatt]

Originally posted by Kishore Dandu:
Any one has info about dates for different rounds of the election and counting(results) date.
[ April 22, 2004: Message edited by: Kishore Dandu ]

May 13th.

[Arjun Shastry]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Your Prime Minister`s wife does not trust you, gets her security from Italians

Exciting story .Only the problem is,author has given minute details,but I could not find the name of single creature ,RAW official?There is no RAW web site.RAW officers are servants of Prime minister in power similar to CBI.Author has not given name of single official.
and if at all this is true,I will blame those secrative RAW servants who listened to Prime minister doing illegal work.This is the typical characteristic of Indian Civil servants,when they retire from service,they spread these types of canards intentionally to show how honest and helpless they were during their tenure.

[Pradeep bhatt]

Of course, Sonia is a patriot and Vajpayee a traitor

Let us all vote for patriotic Sonia and make her the PM.

[Arjun Shastry]

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Let us all vote for patriotic Sonia and make her the PM.
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Why label somebody with patriot or traitor?Both are VVIPs in our society,travel to many countries using diplomatic visas.So by definition niether of them is a traitor.When anyone of them will die,you will see their Samadhi near Mahatma Gandhi's,Am I right?

[Pradeep bhatt]

We will form next govt at Centre: Congress

[Kishore Dandu]

looks like 'Babu' may loose afterall in Andhra. That sucks....(but you can get some things done by bribing the congress guys, that probably is a positive).

[Arjun Shastry]

1/2 dance of Democracy is over.Now last two stages are remaining.Lets see who wins ,'Shining' party or 'Aam Admi'(common man) party!!

[R K Singh]

Originally posted by Ram Abdullah D'Souza:
dance of Democracy

TOI

[Arjun Shastry]

Yep,thats the World class tabloid.Is Times Of India free in Bangalore?For last three months,I havn't yet received bill.

[R K Singh]

Originally posted by Ram Abdullah D'Souza:
Yep,thats the World class tabloid.Is Times Of India free in Bangalore?For last three months,I havn't yet received bill.

wait till you get hefty bill

[Ashok Mash]

Damn, after all this, are we going to get another hung parliament? An unstable government and elections every year?
Oh well, now that we have gone electronic, may be we should install a �finger-print� based electronic voting machine in every school, office and at public places � and then we can call flash election in a week notice!

[Arjun Shastry]

Yes,chances of hung parliament are more.If Congress(I) supports some Third Front,then expect next election before 2006.Congi leaders will give some foolish reasons to withdraw the support similar given by Rajiv Gandhi when Chandrashekhar was PM.If BJP supports some xyz front,assume there will be hundreds of yatras across India with possibility of riots.and then they will withdraw support when some Bajrang Dal or VHP leaders will get beaten up possibly by police in Janta Dal Government!!

[Sameer Jamal]

Chances of Harkishan Surjit as a PM

[Arjun Shastry]

He is 87 or 88 I think.Do you really want him to be PM?(Don't give the example of Morarji Desai now!!)

[Sameer Jamal]

Originally posted by Ram Abdullah D'Souza:
He is 87 or 88 I think.Do you really want him to be PM?(Don't give the example of Morarji Desai now!!)

Still better than ABVP

[Rashmi Tambe]

Originally posted by Sameer Jamal:

Still better than ABVP

How? and why?

[R K Singh]

Originally posted by Rashmi Tambe:

How? and why?

He is 8 yrs elder than ABV and then obviously will have more exp.

[Pradeep bhatt]

Choices for PM
1. Sonia Ghandhi
2. Sharad Pawar
3. Mulayam Singh
4. Laloo Prasad yadav
5. Deve Gowda

[Arjun Shastry]

Originally posted by R K Singh:

He is 8 yrs elder than ABV and then obviously will have more exp.

(in Political Management ,design and analysis of political party fronts using various 'tools')

[Arjun Shastry]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Choices for PM
1. Sonia Ghandhi
2. Sharad Pawar
3. Mulayam Singh
4. Laloo Prasad yadav
5. Deve Gowda

Laloo Prasad or Mulayam? No way,I will prefer Tony Blair ruling India

[Pradeep bhatt]

Indiatimes Poll
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If a non-NDA government comes to power, who would you like to see as the prime minister?
Sonia Gandhi
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Sharad Pawar

[Sameer Jamal]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Choices for PM
1. Sonia Ghandhi
2. Sharad Pawar
3. Mulayam Singh
4. Laloo Prasad yadav
5. Deve Gowda

[Arjun Shastry]

Mumbai Stock market went down after hearing the news that its difficult for BJP to come again in power.Businessmen anyway were proBJP.They will try their 'best' for BJP to come to power.Hope they won't repeat the mistake as in 1996 in gauging horse trading.

[Ashok Mash]

Originally posted by Ram Abdullah D'Souza:
Laloo Prasad or Mulayam? No way,I will prefer Tony Blair ruling India

But Blair isn't half as funny as Laloo!

[Arjun Shastry]

Time to discuss again!! By coming Friday picture will be clear on which part(ies)y will be heading India and who will be the PM(if horse trading goes well).PM will be from one of the following:Add if any .
Ananth Kumar
George Fernandez
Sonia Gandhi
Jagmohan
Murli Manohar Joshi
Nitish Kumar
Sharad Pawar
Vajpayee
Mulayam Singh
L K Advani
Ranchers,select one person from above who will be the PM most possibly.and see whether you are clever or not by next week.
[ May 10, 2004: Message edited by: Ram Abdullah D'Souza ]

[Sameer Jamal]

Its going to be ABV again if NDA gets the majority or else it would be Sonia or Dr. Manmohan Singh

[R K Singh]

Originally posted by Sameer Jamal:
Its going to be ABV again if NDA gets the majority or else it would be Sonia or Dr. Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh .. .is he in the queue of PM .. if yes then he should have been highlighted in the Congress rallies ..
Given choice, I will prefer Manmohan Singh over ABV.

[Katyayani Kumar Pushkar]

Originally posted by R K Singh:

Manmohan Singh .. .is he in the queue of PM .. if yes then he should have been highlighted in the Congress rallies ..
Given choice, I will prefer Manmohan Singh over ABV.

But you have now voted for the BJP

[Arjun Shastry]

Chandrababu Naidu, IT boy and CEO of Andhra Pradesh and friend of Bill Gates is on the way to exit
[ May 11, 2004: Message edited by: Ram Abdullah D'Souza ]

[Rashmi Tambe]

Thats really bad !

[Arjun Shastry]

ka?(why).His feet were not on grounds for last few years.He did some good things but very few people got benifited.I don't think new goverment will chnage policies drastically.

[Pradip Bhat]

As of 1330 IST, the Congress and its allies -- the Telengana Rashtra Samithi, Communist Party of India-Marxist and CPI -- have bagged 190 of the 241 seats declared.

[Ashok Mash]

Damn, I didn�t see that one coming! I hope they picks up the IT & infrastructure development where Chandra Babu Naidu left it and keeps up the momentum. It would be a shame if they didn�t!