Note: Doesn't matter if the party you vote for wins or loses... atleast you have a holiday. :D
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"सौ में से ९९ बेमान, फिर भी मेरा भारत महान!!"
(“Sau mein se 99 bemaan , Phir bhi mera Bharat Mahaan”)
Our good old country is going for yet another general elections...
As usual, we have enough number of parties to talk about.
Well, I have read most of the manifestos and have almost decided who to vote for...
Criteria on which I selected these parties:
1) As this is not a state election I prefer to chose a national level party(atleast present in 8 states) over regional one. (or a regional partner of national one)
2) The leaders which they have.
3) Past performance.
4) Handling of ministries.
5) Party Ideology
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The list of parties which are contesting from my constituency are:
a) TDP (Third front)
b) INC
c) BJP
d) CPI(M) (Third Front)
e) BSP (Third Front)
NCP/SP aren't contesting.
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Also, voters are of three types:
1) farmers 2)Labour class 3)Educated class
The first two share a 80-90% vote share.
Voters can be of further types based on regional and religious sensitivity:
(a) Hindu (b) Muslim (c) Christian, Jains, Sikhs, etc etc. (d)Telanganites and andhrites.
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After going through various manifesto's, I have put the pro's and con's of each party ...
a) TDP : THIRD FRONT
Plus on Leadership.
Minus on rebels issue.
Minus on Free TV with cable connection.
Plus on 35 kg rice/ wheat to BPL(below poverty line) people.
Plus on development(Past performance)
Neutral on farmer issues.
Neutral on minority issues.
Plus on Corruption tackling.
TDP is led by Chandra babu Naidu. It is also a part of third front. Although it got voted out in last elections, most of its policies had actually generated jobs in the congress regime as well. But lack of facilities to farmers is a big thumbs down in its past performance.
Farmers donot see any great incentives in the manifesto.
Labor class and Farmers can find free TV juicy. (Karunidhi scripted a win last year in TN based on this.)
Educated class has faith in his long term educational IT policies.
b) INC: (Indian National Congress)
Plus on leadership in AP.
Plus, 3Rs per Kg rice to BPL
Minus on national leadership.
(Manmohan is a perfect Finance minister, hardly a Prime minister.
Pranab mukherjee is all talk no work. P Chidambaram although good when it comes to new financial policies, should not be home minister.
Also, these three leaders cannot keep changing and rearranging portfolios among them selves)
Minus, Vote percentage share going down every year.
Minus, minority policies. (Over appeasement is the right word - amarnath, AP assembly MIM statement, POTA and Antulay's statement in parliament)
Minus, Inflation and now deflation.
Plus, Aarogya Shri - health insurance scheme. Minus, misuse.
Minus, NREGS -- led to labour deficiency for farmers.
Minus, Cash for Vote Scam
Plus, No Telangana.
Minus, Reservation based on religion (4% christians, 6% muslims)
Minus, Security and terrorism.
Plus, is there is more number of states, wider presence.
Minus, Swiss bank accounts !
Minus, Over and open corruption.
Minus, Political Killings in AP.
Minus, Karnataka Church attacks
Minus, Afzal Guru
c) BJP
Plus, National leaders. (LK Advani, Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Modi)
Plus, Handling Amarnath issue.
Plus, Direct/Indirect BJP governments in 8-9 states.
Plus, Vajpayee's Golden Quadilateral programme.
Minus, Ayodhya,
Plus 2, POK+other indian land occupied by foreigners in last 50 yrs,
Plus 2, Ladli beti programme,
Plus, Rs 2 per Kg of rice to BPL
Minus, Varun Gandhi
Minus, Handling media
Minus, lesser presence than INC
Plus, Democratic party, infighting is openly allowed.
Plus, Article 370 to be scrapped
Plus, Ram mandir to be resolved by talks or SC.
Minus, Bajrang Dal
Plus, 33% womens reservation
Plus, Vote share increasing trend
Plus, Pakistan peace process. (Best environment between India-Pak in 50 yrs under vajpayee)
Minus, Telangana.
d) CPI(M) - CPM
Minus, Pseudo Communists
Minus, communist candidates have religion
Minus, Anti-US stance
Minus, Pro-China stance
Plus, Prakash and Vrinda Karat
Minus, Losing ground and vote share
Minus, Telangana.
Minus, Madani and madanism.
Plus, Third Front lead
Minus, Partner with Pseudo secularists.
e) BSP
Plus 2, Leader - Very Powerful and Vocal.
Plus, Women Leader.
Minus, Cry baby about her being a dalit.
Plus 3, Runs the worst state of India, successfully.
Minus, Vote bank and caste politics
Minus, Corruption
Plus, Exponentially increasing Vote share
Minus, NSA against Varun
Plus, No call on Telangana
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After reading all this I hope you can make a call on who to vote for....
My vote (mostly) goes to BJP because of one statement Murli Manohar Joshi gave after releasing manifesto, "We will take population control measures more seriously and rigorously."
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Also I recommend people not to vote to regional parties simply because they have the habit of playing spoilsport.
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Also, I would like you all to enlighten on a very small unnoticed issue... How Indian railways is a success....
Please click and enlarge this pic and you will understand how lalu is making profit for Indian railways at the cost of aam-aadmi: (Click to enlarge)
A Tatkal ticket costs 150 more than normal ticket.
Now since, half is tatkal quota these days, the average amount of fare paid by aam aadmni as showed by revered sage laloo prasad yadav is false.
He shows fare calculated normally and doesnt add tatkal quota to his calculations fooling aam aadmi in the process.
Ideally, fares are 15%-40% higher now if you compare them with 2003. (In some cases because of small fare amount the tatkal charges are more than train fares)
> "OPEN LOOT BY RAILWAYS", Dad. ________________________________________________________________
Also, If you are not voting... you have no right to crib.
(If you think there is no good candidate... go nominate yourselves)
___________________________________________________________lol. I voted. To whom?
Well I used my brain to select the candidate... asked my dad. He suggested that a reputed journalist is standing this time from our locality and we should vote for him...
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2 comments:
totally ignored Chiru's party?
dude lok satta and praja rajyam have state level manifesto's... they have nothing about national issues... will consider them for state assembly elections not national one...
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