Comments on: Countdown to general election 2009 – conclusion – a hung parliament

By: Manojk

Manojk — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:15:19 +0000

Govey – The Print media initially said NDA is finished. Last year they said UPA is 350 seats. When the polls started, thet gave BJP 125+ and NDA 175. UPS ranged from 250+. Suddenly after the first 2 phases, the news was coming out that CON party is in trouble and NDA, Third Front are doing. It was confirmed in third phase. After third phase, the print media acknowledged but they kept their rigging intact. They kept repeating the numbers with 5 less for UPA and 5 more for NDA. I hope results will show how the Print media and TV are playing a game to fix the elections.

By: govey

govey — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:31:33 +0000

nda is dominating opinion polls in cyber media and upa in print as well as tv…………..
cnt trust any opinion or prediction. nda more or less dominates only the opinion polls.

By: Chakresh Mishra

Chakresh Mishra — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:16:56 +0000

Launch of Indian Politics Forums (The first Indian Politics specific forums)

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Why forums are essential besides blog
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3. All those precious comments on older posts are not lost.
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By: RAJ

RAJ — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:19:54 +0000

Yes Ibadu, baseless because we arent licking antonio maino and raul vinci’s feet. right?

By: ibadu.dk

ibadu.dk — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:04:43 +0000

baseless prediction

By: ritesh gupta

ritesh gupta — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:12:00 +0000

Hi Raj,
I have told many times, Congress is paying huge money to TV channels. Are you agree or not.

By: RAJ

RAJ — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:14:17 +0000

Because We arent Licking The Feet of white trash Evil KKK agents sonia maino and her illegitimate faggot born to ottawio quattrochi,raul vinci right?

By: ikkru

ikkru — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:04:05 +0000

poor survey yar……………

By: Aditya

Aditya — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:46:47 +0000

When the elction are at the door, once again political parties started saying we are secular and UPA major agenda is to keep away the secular forces. But do these secular parties are really secular …? No , they just want muslim votes so they want to use this term.See the condition in bihar congress formed UPA with alaince with Lalu, Paswan, Mulayam in centre and after seat sharing problems Sonia gandhi stated Bihar backwardness is due to Lalu. I pray all of you to reject them. We are definetely in the “horns of Dilemma” whome to choose be it any state.But I request LK Advani must be given charge of PM this time. So please give him more hands. I am also a voter not any party men but I have decided.

By: chakresh

chakresh — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:19:21 +0000

ok fellas!
the fun begins now, pre-poll prediction for general election. One state a day, detailed analysis. First one to go will be God’s own country – Kerala. All of you are invited to join the discussion there. cheers!
http://promiseofreason.com/series/pre-poll-prediction-2009/

By: nationfirst.in

nationfirst.in — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:26:43 +0000

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Being Jaitely

By: lkadvani.in

lkadvani.in — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:24:26 +0000

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By: nationfirst.in

nationfirst.in — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:13:13 +0000

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By: ritesh gupta

ritesh gupta — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:07:56 +0000

Hi Jacob ,

Behanji is toilet pot.

By: Kenney Jacob

Kenney Jacob — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:05:55 +0000

The last thing I want to see is our “behanji” being the queen.

By: RAJ

RAJ — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:37:04 +0000

I am Glad BJP has Questioned Congress Commission oops, Election Commission’s motive. EC is NOT to decide who contests and who doesnt.
EC has Naveen Chawla A Christian and Qureshi a Muslim appointed by italian maino. Obviously, They will HATE Hindus.

By: RAJ

RAJ — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:11:29 +0000

Nope. Varun has simply Revived Hindutva Wave in UP. Advantage BJP

By: saurav

saurav — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:55:01 +0000

That Bloody Varun Gandhi has managed to do in 10 minutes what Congress and communists could not do in 5 years.

In mere 5 minutes, and I mean Yes 5 minutes he has managed to destroy BJP.

Mark my words, if his speech will be forgotten do not worry it will not. This is only the beginning.

Guess he has lived upto his fathers expectation.

By: AK

AK — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:57:41 +0000

The effects of Delimitation,

http://www.livemint.com/2008/06/09232500/New-boundaries-for-Indian-poli.html?d=1

This lok sabha elections will also see the effect of Delimitation. Karanataka was first state to have elections after Delimitation, where seats in urban constituencies in Bangalore city increased from 16 to 28 and BJP ended up willing 17 of those, which was key to forming first ever BJP govt in a southern state.

Speaking of macro level , the higher urban % of seats , closer BJP gets to magic no. of 274 .

This time, urban seats have increased from 70 (2004) to 100. I guess good portion of that will go to BJP. I also think if BJP can exceed 25% share of total vote polled, it will form Govt.

Does any body have any statistics on TV penetration in India, coz I feel very soon that will become the most critical medium of communications and politics.

By: RAJ

RAJ — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:34:30 +0000

Good Observation AK!!!

By: AK

AK — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:00:02 +0000

Some interesting stats from recent elections,

Year 1991 1996 1999 2004

INC Seats 244 140 112 145
Vote % 35.66% 28.80% 28.30% 26.53%

BJP Seats 120 161 182 138
Vote % 20.04% 20.29% 23.75% 22.16%

Voter Turnout 61.58% 62.06% 63.97% 52.65%

1) Congress is losing vote % with every election.
2) BJP lost in 2004 , coz its supports didn’t come out to vote, see the turnout of 52.65 , this was the first time in the history of India with less than 60% voter turnout.

So, if voter turnout is over 60% this time,
– BJP vote % will be more than Cong vote %
– NDA Govt.

Every vote counts, specially first time voters who are 15% of total voter population.

By: AK

AK — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:55:54 +0000

Some interesting stats from recent elections,

Year 1991 1996 1999 2004

INC Seats 244 140 112 145
Vote % 35.66% 28.80% 28.30% 26.53%

BJP Seats 120 161 182 138
Vote % 20.04% 20.29% 23.75% 22.16%

Vote %age 61.58% 62.06% 63.97% 52.65%

1) Congress is losing vote % with every election.
2) BJP lost in 2004 , coz its supports didn’t come out to vote, see the vote % of 52.65 , this was the first time in the history of India that Cong vote % and there will be NDA Govt. Every vote counts, specially first time voters who are 15% of total voter population.

By: Sundara

Sundara — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:29:27 +0000

1 ttl sts
2 “Cong camp
2 “BJP camp
4 “3RD
5 others
1 ANDHRA PRADESH 42 8 6 26 2
2 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 2 1 1 0 0
3 ASSAM 14 8 4 2 0
4 BIHAR 40 16 16 8 0
5 JHARKHAND 14 6 6 1 1
6 GOA 2 1 1 0 0
7 GUJARAT 26 6 20 0 0
8 HARYANA 10 4 6 0 0
9 HIMACHAL PRADESH 4 1 3 0 0
10 JAMMU & KASHMIR 6 3 0 0 3
11 KARNATAKA 28 6 12 10 0
12 KERALA 20 6 0 14 0
13 MADHYA PRADESH 29 10 18 0 1
14 CHHATTISGARH 11 4 6 1 0
15 MAHARASHTRA 48 22 23 1 2
16 MANIPUR 2 1 1 0 0
17 MEGHALAYA 2 2 0 0 0
18 MIZORAM 1 1 0 0 0
19 NAGALAND 1 1 0 0 0
20 ORISSA 21 8 12 0 1
21 PUNJAB 13 5 8 0 0
22 RAJASTHAN 25 14 10 1 0
23 SIKKIM 1 1 0 0 0
24 TAMIL NADU 39 10 0 26 3
25 TRIPURA 2 0 0 2 0
26 UTTAR PRADESH 80 12 8 58 2
37 UTTARAKHAND 5 1 1 3 0
28 WEST BENGAL 42 4 0 32 6
29 ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS 1 1 0 0 0
30 CHANDIGARH 1 0 1 0 0
31 DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI 1 0 1 0 0
32 DAMAN & DIU 1 0 1 0 0
33 DELHI 7 4 3 0 0
34 LAKSHADWEEP 1 1 0 0 0
35 PONDICHERRY 1 1 0 0 0
TOTAL 543 173 175 185 20

By: RAJ

RAJ — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:29:22 +0000

Hello, most of us are Either Working Professionals or Students or Research Scholars. We hardly have time for Each Constituency
and elections are held only for 543, 2 are nominated from AngloIndian Community

By: ritesh gupta

ritesh gupta — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:13:37 +0000

Hi,

Please prepare 545 pages( 545 parliament seats), like north,east,west,south, general issue.
1.Kanpur
2.Hyderabad
3.
4.
.
.
545. Calicut

For ex: kanpur
1. local issue 2. local slogan 3. local politics 4.Cast equation 5. local influential people