Gujarat Election Poll to be held on Dec 13- 1st phase, 2nd phase polling on Dec 17

04 Oct 2012 Leave a Comment


The poll bugle has been sounded by the Election Commission of India for the states of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. While the polling will be done in Himachal Pradesh in a single phase, Gujarat will witness a two-phase assembly election.

According to the dates announced by the Election Commission, Himachal Pradesh will vote on November 4 and Gujarat will go to polls on December 13 and December 17. However, the counting in both the states has been scheduled for December 20.

Since the fight in both States is between the ruling BJP and the Opposition Congress, political circles see it as a given that the results will spill over into national politics, impacting its course in the coming months.

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Sonia Gandhi to flag off Congress Campaign from Saurashtra

02 Oct 2012 Leave a Comment


The Congress will start its election campaign with farmers’ rally from Saurashtra. The rally will be addressed by national president Sonia Gandhi. Saurashtra has been a BJP stronghold since two decades backed by Patel votes. The ruling party secured 35 seats in 2007 assembly elections sparing 14 for Congress and one for NCP. However, the delimitation of assembly seats has changed the voter dynamics. Now, the number of representatives from Saurashtra region has dropped from 59 to 48, according to a data provided by the office of chief electoral officer of Gujarat.
The rally will test voters mood in Saurashtra region where farmers have suffered crop losses.
Sonia Gandhi who will address rallies in Rakot and Jetpur will seek to remind farmers that it was the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that waived their debt worth Rs 70,000 crore in 2008. It hopes that this would strike a chord with local farmers who saw their crop dry down during the kharif season. Gujarat received scanty rains in July and August leading to the state government declaring 123 talukas of 14 districts as drought-affected.

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US daily, Washington Post calls PM as a ‘tragic figure’

06 Sep 2012 Leave a Comment


US daily, Washington Post described Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh as “a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government”.

In its article entitled as “India’s ‘silent’ prime minister becomes a tragic figure”, the Washington Post said Manmohan Singh helped set India on the path to modernity, prosperity and power, but critics say the shy, soft-spoken 79-year-old is in “danger of going down in history as a failure”.

The daily also said, “As India’s economy has slowed and as its reputation for rampant corruption has reasserted itself, the idea that the country was on an inexorable road to becoming a global power has increasingly come into question.”

This came soon after the TIME Magazine termed him as an “Underachiever”.

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Narendra Modi slams Kapil Sibal over Aakash tablet, Gandhinagar

05 Sep 2012 Leave a Comment


While attending a function of Teacher’s Day today, CM Narendra Modi slamed Kapil Sibal over Aakash tablet by saying that “Last October distribution of Akash tablet was announced but till date the Akash has not reached earth”. He also said that Kapil Sibal announced in October 2011 that students just had to pay Rs. 3000 and they will get the tablet but till date none of the tablet has reached earth.
The function was organized in Gandhinagar where Modi interacted directly with students.

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UPA 2 to gift mobile phones to BPL families

09 Aug 2012 Leave a Comment


According to reports Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to announce to distribute mobile phones to every BPL family across the country. Under the new scheme name Har Hath mein phone mobile phones is likely to be distributed. PM is likely to announce it on August 15.

According to an estimate, around Rs 7,000 crore would be spend on Har Hath Mein Phone scheme, which covers around six million BPL households. It is also claimed that the government is likely to offer 200 minutes of free local talk time on every mobile phone.

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Hamid Ansari elected as Vice President.

07 Aug 2012 Leave a Comment


Hamid Ansari elected as Vice President.

UPA candidate Hamid Ansari elected vice president for the 2nd term, gets 490 votes. NDA gets 238 votes, 8 votes invalid. 74 year old Ansari is elected as 14th Vice President of India.

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Narendra Modi Slams UPA on S & P Report

13 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment


Gujarat’s Chief Minister Narendra Modi slammed UPA government after Standard and Poor’s report. S&P in its report released stated that India could be first of the BRIC country to fall. It has threaten to downgrade India’s ranking. On this Narendra Modi on twitter tweeted “UPA government has given a nine-year low GDP growth in a quarter.
With monsoons deficient till now, where are we heading toward as a nation”.

Narendra Modi also commented on S&P statement which said division of roles between “powerful” Cong president and “appointed” PM has weakened policy making framework and caused political vacuum

The S&P report had said: “Moreover, paramount political power rests with the leader of the Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, who holds no Cabinet position, while the government is led by an unelected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who lacks a political base of his own”.

However Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the report of S&P.

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Narendra Modi Slams Government in Executive Meet at Rajkot

11 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment


Two day BJP executive meet was organized in Rajkot. On Sunday Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the meet slammed UPA. He said “The country is disappointed and upset with the Congress led UPA government. Coalition compulsions are preventing Congress from acting against corruption.”

In his speech he expressed his positive expectation in polls. He clearly stated that Congress will be wiped out in coming polls.

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Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare’s day long fast from June 3

02 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment


Anti-Corruption activist Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev will be on a day long fast on June 3 at Jantar-Mantar. Here Baba Ramdev will start his anti-graft crusade and take it to the different parts of the country.

The one-day fast is to demand bringing back black-money stashed away abroad and against corruption and corrupt system will have its echo in the state capitals as well with Ramdev’s Bharat Swabhiman Andolan organising protests.

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Narendra Modi speaks n Marathi during BJP Meet, Mumbai

26 May 2012 Leave a Comment


Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi addressed the BJP rally in Marathi during the National Executive Meet of Bharatiya Janta Party. Narendra Modi also talked about the drought in Maharashtra and expressed sympathy for the farmers.
Modi hits at the UPA Government and compared all the ministers with corrupt Nirmal Baba. He also said that the UPA Government do not have neta or niti (leader or policy).
Narendra Modi amused everyone with his speech in during the rally. However, L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj were not present in the rally.

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