UP, Gujarat, UT, Punjab- Election 2007

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Anti-quota youth woo voters with health camps </b>
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Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
While big political parties like BJP and Congress are trying to bank on the senior leaders and bollywood actors, the Youth For Equality (YFE), with four candidates in the civic polls, has organised free health check-up centres to woo the voters. The doctors of All India Institute of Medical Sciences and other city hospitals are running these centres.

"Our health check-up centres are currently running at two places, Vijay Nagar and Outram Lines. Both these centres are doing well," said Pradeep Jha, a YFE candidate contesting from Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar, ward number 12. "We do not have big political leaders to campaign for us. Moreover, we do not have enough money to organise big events and hold rallies. So, we have set up these camps with our fellow doctors. In this way, we are able to help the people while building relations with them," he added.
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"The camps are a part of the social activity by the YFE members. Apart from the two areas, the camps were also organised in Nangloi and Trans-Yamuna area, where we have not fielded any candidate," said Dr Lokesh, a member of the YFE group.

"This weekend, more than 50 doctors from our hospital visited the camp. The camps run from 8 am to 8 pm," said another doctor who is doing his internship at AIIMS. The members of the group are also selling T-shirts in various educational institutions like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi University (DU) and AIIMS to raise funds for the MCD elections. 
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Poll time is boom time for unemployed </b>
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Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
The civic polls have brought with them a great bonanza for the local children and unemployed youth. In most of the wards, the aspiring councillors hire them for campaigning and pay anywhere between Rs 50 to Rs 200 per day depending on the age and the efficiency of the person. These youth are also provided with lunch and dinner, not to forget liquors for the senior volunteers.

<b>"I get Rs 50 a day for campaigning. Also, we are given lunch and dinner everyday," says Satish Singh, a 17 year-old-boy campaigning for the local BJP candidate in ward number 166. </b>

According to him, they have to campaign from 8 am to 8 pm. In between, they get lunch break. "We start campaigning in the morning. We go to each and every household in the locality following the candidate and his supporters. Our work is to shout slogans and carry the party flags," he said.

Not only this, Satish has his aspirations too. He wants to join the Congress candidate because he pays Rs 150 to Rs 200 a day, excluding lunch and dinner. "Both the candidates are rich and powerful. But we are here for money. The Congress candidate pays better. So, I want to join his team. Moreover, he <span style='color:purple'>is young and has also been the president of the Delhi University, he can even help us to get admission in the university,"</span> he said.

<b>The senior volunteers are, however, not happy with money only. For them liquor is the first and foremost requirement. Most of the candidates make special arrangement of liquors to lure them. "This is a normal activity. In any such gathering, drinking and partying is very common. Even the voters are wooed by offering liquors to them,"</b> said one of the local residents.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has reportedly confiscated more than 4,600 bottles of liquor and three vehicles used for the workers' transportation in the last two days.

"We have recovered 600 bottles of liquor and three vehicles used for their transportation. This liquor was taken to Delhi from Haryana for the purpose of distribution in slum areas to woo the voters in MCD elections," said Anil Shukla, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, South district. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Frequent election are good for country and economy
-Black money leaves jute sacts
-painters, printers gets job
-free food
-free pen, bags, batches, pins for kids
-loudspeekers rental houses gets good money.

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<b>Schedule of Current Elections of Uttar Pradesh</b>

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Deccan Chronicle, 4 April, 2007
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Congress misreads U.P. Muslims
By Syed Iqbal Hasnain

<b>According to the 2001 census, Uttar Pradesh has a Muslim population of about 28 per cent, mostly concentrated in three triangles, namely, Moradabad, Bijnor, Rampur and Amroha in the west, Kanpur, Lucknow, Jaunpur and Kannauj in the centre, and Azamgarh, Gorakhpur, Basti, Ballia and Gonda in the east. After independence, Muslims outsourced their leadership first to the Congress and later to the caste based parties.</b>

All parties conveniently used them as vote-bank and ignored their legitimate right to education, employment, social facilities etc. Once assuming power these parties give priority to their own castes, leaving practically no space for Muslims in government jobs, judiciary, education or civil administration. This has slowly deteriorated the Muslim community’s social, economic and educational levels in the last 60 years.

In the 2007 Assembly elections, Muslims votes are being sought by three “secular” caste parties, the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Rashtirya Lok Dal; and by the rootless Congress.

All these parties, except Congress, have some major caste as their core vote-bank. In the case of Congress, Brahmins and Banias, who together constitute below ten per cent of the population, are waiting in the wings to jump on the Congress bandwagon once they are convinced that Muslims are shifting to the Congress fold. In the forthcoming elections, it is difficult to predict the Muslim vote pattern, as they are disillusioned across the board. The “secular” caste parties have failed to attract the fast emerging Muslim intelligentsia and leadership in the towns and kasbahs of UP.

They are the opinion makers of the community and to a large extent, the force which can influence the voting pattern of the community. And they are the mind behind the tactical voting that takes place at times to defeat the communal forces. Unfortunately, both the caste parties and the Congress have ignored them thinking that the Muslim vote can be influenced by placating the clergy and the criminal elements. But there are innumerable examples where Muslims have voted to defeat communal forces, not because of clergy and criminal influence, but because circumstances forced them to do so.

<b>The political history of Uttar Pradesh Muslims is full of instances where the community admires and likes a well dressed educated Muslim who at the same time offers Friday prayers and follows basic Islamic values. They believe that these are the people who can help them and not the maulanas running the madrasas and the criminals prospering by kidnappings. They are aware that the madrasas and Urdu medium schools will not bring them jobs and prosperity in the present globalised world. </b>

Wherever and whenever a conclave of Muslims is organised by a caste party, the supreme leader of the concerned party is invited as the chief guest. In these meetings the Muslim leadership says that we need you to give us Urdu schools, funds for madrasas, and reservation in the OBC category. The party leadership happily agrees to grant them funds and Urdu schools, but keep quiet when it comes to giving Muslims quotas, as they know that this will cut into their core vote-bank quota. However, they will say that they support reservation for Muslims and will demand Constitutional amendment to repeal the 50 per cent court ceiling on reservations. All this is for public consumption as they know quotas for Muslims cannot be given by coalition governments.

<b>The fast emerging kasbah intelligentsia which comprises local doctors, teachers, journalists, lawyers, political activists and half-educated youths, expresses its frustration on these demands and is now asking why Muslims cannot have English medium schools affiliated to the CBSE and ICSC. Exposure to the Arabian Peninsula and satellite television is making the community aware about knowledge economy and knowledge world in which they see the Indian middle class progressing and prospering. They aspire to have a share in this boom, and realise they can never be part of the fast emerging Indian middle class by attending madrasas and Urdu medium schools. They are well aware that without English medium schooling their future is doomed and that they will be left behind in the 21st century.</b>

UP Muslims were with the Congress initially. The shift in the Muslim vote pattern started in the late Eighties and early Nineties, and the reasons for this shift have been extensively discussed over the years. Recently, I had the opportunity to address some well attended Muslim intelligentsia meetings at Kannauj, Kanpur and Lucknow. The meetings were on the Sachar Committee report and were organised by local Muslim groups.

In my speech I articulated how the community should make efforts to open inclusive educational institutions and acquire relevant education, especially in sectors like hospitality, fashion design and health sciences in which jobs are available aplenty. At the same meetings, Muslim Congress functionaries spoke about the execution of Saddam Hussein and other emotional issues, without mentioning a word about the community’s educational and economic development.

After the meeting those present in the audience told me that they appreciated the points raised about talim and jobs, and not the issues raised by the political leaders. I realised that the Muslim political leadership in the Congress is yet to change its mindset and articulate the issues which directly concern Muslims and will help their economic, educational and social empowerment. The community laments that we are always given a commission and emotional agendas whenever we demand our share in the country’s nine per cent economic growth. But now Muslims are strongly asserting that the time has come to deliver on issues like inclusive education and jobs in police and civil administration.

In the forthcoming UP elections, the Congress had a wonderful opportunity to bring back the Muslims to its fold, and consolidate them as its core vote for the future. For that it had to act intelligently, which it did not. By reaching out to the community, Congress leaders should have given the clear message that they cared about Muslims’ social, economic and educational backwardness and would remove the institutional discrimination which has unfortunately crept into the administration in the last 60 years. By organising meetings in kasbahs and taking on board the new Muslim intelligentsia they should have focused on modern inclusive school education and skill based courses. Thus, the Congress could have made amends for its past mistakes.

The impact of this Muslim intelligentsia will be visible in the elections in UP. The Muslim agenda is to defeat the communal party by voting in a candidate who is in a position to attract the largest number of caste groups in her or his fold. Of course, sometimes they also favour a Muslim candidate in a three or four cornered contest, and do not care for his political affiliation.

Another suicidal mistake that the Congress usually makes is to re-nominate the family members of Congress leaders who are hugely disliked and consistently lose elections. This strategy has always gone against the party and the candidates have ended up losing their deposits.

UP is witnessing its Assembly elections at a time when Muslims’ exposure to the outside world is increasing. At a time like this, the Congress should have nominated at least 100 educated Muslims for the elections. This would have given it an out-of-the-box option over other caste parties which normally nominate criminals and members of the clergy and ignore educated, forward looking Muslims who celebrate pluralism.

There is an undercurrent among Muslims not to vote for Mulayam Singh and Mayawati this time, both of whom have consistently failed to deliver the promises made to Muslims. They would have voted for the Congress had it got its act together. But any change in attitude and mindset by the Congress leadership towards Muslims seems a remote possibility. So the Muslim vote will most likely be divided among the three caste parties and the Congress, and in the process, the BJP will gain.

Professor Syed Iqbal Hasnain is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and former Vice Chancellor of University of Calicut, Kerala

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The political history of Uttar Pradesh Muslims is full of instances where the community admires and likes a well dressed educated Muslim who at the same time offers Friday prayers and follows basic Islamic values. They believe that these are the people who can help them and not the maulanas running the madrasas and the criminals prospering by kidnappings. They are aware that the madrasas and Urdu medium schools will not bring them jobs and prosperity in the present globalised world. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I can only say this man is clueless about Muslim community in UP. Average man blindly follows Mullah in mosque and "Islam Khaterey mei hai" works very well. Educated does it in refined way and uneducated do in uncivilized way? Educated and uneducated believes in breeding more is merrier. They still believe in Pakistan. Nothing will change because they just follow their religion.

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Overzealous poll staff keep voters at bay </b>
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Neelam Pandey/ Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Voters with identity documents denied right to vote n Despite heat, open offices, Delhi records 45% turnout
Senior citizens on wheel-chairs made to walk to polling booths n Large number of EVMs fail to function

The over zealous attitude of the State Election Commission (SEC) kept the voters away from the polling booths dering MCD election held on Thursday.

While the SEC kept talking about its several measures like delimitation and the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the fact is that these measures rather created difficulties in the smooth functioning of the election. The SEC has even notified re-polling at 10 polling stations, which is happening for the first time in the history of civic elections.

The voter turnout remained around 45 per cent. When asked about the reason behind the low turnout State Election Commissioner (SEC) was at a loss of words and termed it 'incomprehensible', though some blamed it on heat.

The SEC would have found an answer to the question if he moved out of his office and witnessed 'bandobast' at polling stations.

With the Central Government officers not been given an off on the polling day, a sizeable number of voters simply could not find it feasible to vote while they were working. While the old were kept away 'by strict rules' not allowing their wheelchairs inside the booth and being forced to park their cars at a distance from the polling station, the young were stopped from voting on the basis that they did not have photo identification card issued by the election commission. 
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<b>BJP patches up with Adityanath</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday replaced its Muslim candidate contesting the main Assembly segment in Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency.

BJP chief Rajnath Singh named Kusum Chauhan as his party candidate from Rae Bareli in place of Ghairul Hasan, who was the party's lone Muslim nominee.

<b>The BJP has replaced several candidates, apparently as part of its reconciliation pact with its Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath, whose revolt over ticket distribution had threatened to split saffron votes.</b>

<b>Singh also named Satyajai Sharma as party canidate from the Jalalpur Assembly constituency</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Good going. Adityanath can keep them in check.

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<b>BJP slips on disc, disowns 'communal' CD before EC </b>

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Are Pakis heging their bets?

From Tribune, 6 April 2007

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Shaukat Aziz was on wooing-BJP mission
Rajeev Sharma
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 5
The just-concluded visit of Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to India, though packed with diplomatic agenda, had a political mission too: Wooing the BJP.

<b>During this visit Aziz met the BJP top brass and obtained assurances from Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani for visiting Pakistan later this year. Aziz met Vajpayee at the latter’s residence. Former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha and former national security adviser Brajesh Mishra were present at this meeting.

Aziz extended an oral invitation to Vajpayee to visit Pakistan and added that an official invitation from the Government of Pakistan would be handed over to him soon. Vajpayee accepted the invitation in principle. The visit, likely to materialise in the next couple of months, would also pave the way for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s maiden Pakistan visit.</b>

Rai Riaz Khan, minister (Press) in Pakistan High Commission here, told this correspondent that it was Aziz’s desire to meet Vajpayee as the two share an excellent rapport. Aziz was Vajpayee’s minister-in-waiting during Vajpayee’s Pakistan visit in January 2004. He was Pakistan’s finance minister at that time.

Advani attended a dinner hosted by Aziz here on April 3. Though leaders like former Prime Minister I.K. Gujral and former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh were also among the select few guests at the dinner, apart from Aziz’s minister-in-waiting union petroleum minister Murali Deora, Advani was the central attraction of the party. <b>Advani told Aziz that he would be willing to undertake another visit to Pakistan only after the famous Katasraj temple gets renovated.</b>

The Pakistan Government has over the past few years been consistently extending an olive branch to its Hindu minority and trying hard to improve relations with the BJP.
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Yes, When Shaukat Aziz is doing, it means couple of others entities gave him blessing.
I think we may see change in govt. sooner. Lets see who will expose another UPA scandel. My bet, it will come from outside.
UP election may give clear picture. If you see miss-handling of economy, using diplomats to coverup "Q", Oil scandel, dal scandel. At this moment dedicated loyal to Queen Babus in govt. are helping UPA to survive. Lets see how long?

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Is this a video CD ?
How does one get hold of a copy of this ?

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<b>BJP set for a landslide victory in MCD polls</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BJP on Saturday was set to take over the reins of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi as it is cruising ahead of the rival Congress in as many as 140 seats in the 272-member House.

Election Commission figures showed that the saffron party has won six seats while the ruling Congress emerged victorious in one ward in the elections for which voting took place on Thursday.

Those who won include former Deputy Mayor Arti Mehra (Hauz Khaz) of the BJP. Barring Mayor Farhad Suri (Nizamuddin) almost all the top Congress leaders were trailing.

The Congress was leading in about 30 seats while smaller parties like the BSP and the NCP and independents were ahead in some 30 seats. The trends were available for around 200 seats.
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It is video CD,
I hope someone will post them on some good websites.

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<b>Dikshit accepts defeat in civic polls</b>

BJP and traders gave her and her party big Jhapar.

MCD POLL RESULTS
Party Win Lead

BJP 64 106
Cong 21 35
Others 6 23

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<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Apr 7 2007, 11:49 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Apr 7 2007, 11:49 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is video CD,
I hope someone will post them on some good websites.
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Here is the transcript.

http://svaradarajan.blogspot.com/2007/04/t...transcript.html

Note: This guy is pure Pinko. Take what ever is worth.

Also, I am reproducint it here. Blogs may not be permanent.
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Here are extracts from the verbatim transcript, translated by me from the Hindi original, of the VCD titled ‘Bharat ki Pukar’ released in early April 2007 by the Bharatiya Janata Party as part of its campaign material for the Uttar Pradesh elections. It is on the basis of the contents of this VCD -- which the BJP has now withdrawn -- that the Election Commission has filed an FIR against the party’s president, Rajnath Singh

I have seen the 52 minute CD in its entirety and it is pretty ‘sick-making’.

The VCD consists of a series of fictionalised scenes revolving around several dramatis personae including Masterji, a BJP campaigner, and an unnamed social worker. Apart from a few news clips, songs and extracts from real speeches by senior BJP leaders like L.K. Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the VCD is essentially a multi-scene, viciously communal soap with a simple plot line: Muslims are out to break-up India, turn it into a Pakistan and drive the Hindus out. The message to Hindus, explicitly stated by the principal protagonist, the BJP campaigner ‘Masterji’, is for Hindus to vote in the party and or end up wearing burqas and sporting beards.

Among the more vicious statements:


“Hindus will produce two children and Muslims will marry five times and produce 35 dogs each and make this country into an Islamic state”

“If you don’t vote BJP, you will regret it. This country will be enslaved. First it was enslaved by the British, now it will be enslaved by the Muslims. Even earlier it was enslaved by the Muslims. That Aurangzeb earlier cut your choti (tuft of hair) and took off your sacred thread. And now these tikas on your forehead will have to go and in their place you will have to grow beards.”

“Ha ha ha! When Hindu girls get ensnared by us, they scream and shout but sadly there is no one to listen to them and we have great fun. Ha ha ha ha ha!”

“That day is not far away when we will be afraid to even call ourselves Hindu, and you will never be able to find a Sohanlal, Mohanlal, Atmaram or Radhekrishan anywhere. Wherever we look, we will only see Abbas, Naqvi, Rizvi, and Maulvi”.

Lest there be any doubt about authorship, the top fifth of the screen is taken over by a panel with the BJP’s colours and its ‘Lotus’ election symbol. What is interesting to note is that although there is no shortage of issues on which the BJP could choose to campaign against the ruling Samajwadi Party in U.P., the party's main plank is communal polarisation on the basis of scaring Hindus about Muslims.

Opening credits: BJP Uttar Pradesh presents ‘Bharat ki Pukar’ (‘The Call of India’)

Voiceover: Today Mother India is screaming aloud, ‘Oh my sons, save me from being broken into pieces again. I no longer have the strength to be enslaved another time. By using through terrorists, spreading fear and dividing us, Pakistan wants to break India into pieces. Hyenas hungry for political power are egging them on. They have forgotten what the consequences of this will be. Now, ordinary people of India have to think, do they want slavery again or Ram Rajya in their independent India. (Cut to image of Ram)

[Song - Ai Bharat ma tere charano mein…][Flag of BJP, clips of BJP leaders]

Section title: A contemporary picture of India and Uttar Pradesh

The scene opens with a newspaper delivery boy cycling past shouting headlines about terrorist attacks.

Masterji goes around telling people to come to a January 26 Republic Day flag hoisting meeting. At the meeting, only 4-5 people come. Masterji laments the poor showing but gives a stirring speech and shouts ‘Vande Mataram’. The camera immediately cuts to the image of a Muslim man (identified by cap on head) planting a bomb under a white ambassador.

Scene 1: In which two Muslim butchers pretend to be Hindus, buy a cow and slaughter it

[Cut to scene in idyllic village home with soothing music. Two men rest in courtyard next to tethered cow. Cut to two young men walking outside, carrying long lathis.]

Salim: Bhai Javed, the Hindu village has come.

Javed: Salim, you are right. Hurry up and take out the stuff, the tika and red thread (kalava).

[Javed opens bag and puts tika on Salim’s forehead]

Salim: Bhai, put it properly.

[They then tie the kalava on each other’s wrists while Javed looks around furtively]

Javed: Now no one will recognise us. [laughs]

[The two walk into the courtyard of the home with the cow]

Javed: Uncle, Ram Ram!

Uncle: What’s up? Where have you come from?

Javed: We want a cow. The doctor has said we should give milk to our child.
So seeing your cow, we have come. Will you sell me your cow?

Uncle: We have cow’s milk. And we can sell it too.

Javed: What you say is true. But sell us this cow. Our child can drink milk and we will look after the cow.

Uncle: The sons of butchers have come around many times

[Cut to look of panic on Javed’s face, cut to kalava on wrist]

and even offered me 3,500 rupees. I told them I wouldn’t sell it for even a lakh. But if you keep it at home and look after it, you can have it.

Javed: But uncle, 3500 is too much.

Uncle: Brother, give me what you want. You are one of us.

Javed: Uncle, I can only give 3000. I’m a poor man.

Uncle: Take it, but on one condition. Don’t sell it to the butchers.

Javed: Uncle, we are not Muslims.

[He pays the money and takes the cow]

[Cut to scene of Uncle sleeping. His nephew comes in]

Nephew: Uncle, you’ve sold the cow to butchers and now you are enjoying your sleep!

Uncle: No, they were the Hindu boys. They had a tika on their forehead and kalava on their wrists. I saw it with my own eyes. It’s only after seeing that that I sold it.

Nephew: I saw the butcher’s sons on my way here. Neither did they have a tilak nor kalava. Aren’t you ashamed? You sold your cow to the butchers.

Uncle: Are you telling me the truth?

Nephew: I know those boys. They are sons of butchers.

Uncle: Oh, no this is a terrible thing that has happened. [Starts calling out for help, if anyone can find them]… We’ll find them and beat them up and bring my cow back.

Nephew: Ha! You are not going to find your cow. They’ve probably already killed her.

[Cut to 50 second long graphic footage of a buffalo being slaughtered, including of the blood pouring out from its throat].

Text on screen: The present government is giving full support to butchers. Cruel atrocities are being committed on Gaumata.

Uncle [head in hands]: This is a terrible crime, what am I going to do?

Nephew: You can cry about this your whole life. You’ve committed a big sin by selling your cow to the butchers.

Scene 2: In which we are told it is the duty of Muslim women to increase the country’s population

Masterji stops a woman on the road.

Masterji: My child.

Woman: Yes.

Masterji: Elections are coming. Think carefully before you vote. And put your stamp only on the lotus symbol [of the BJP]. Because if peace can come to this country, then it can come only under the BJP’s rule. Congress and Samajwadi are the government of mullahs and maulvis.

Woman: Forgive me for saying so, for I am also a Muslim and I know Mulahs and Maulvis consider women their personal property.

[Cut to group women in black chador]

Muslim Woman 1: The duty of a woman is to produce children and increase the population.

Muslim Woman 2: What this sister says is right. Our leaders have issued an order. That those who produce more than 10 children will get economic assistance.

[Cut back to woman and masterji]

Woman: This religion considers us as objects to be used.

Masterji: Well said my child. If all the women become educated and wise like you, then this country’s fate will improve.

[Cut to real news clip of speech by saffron-clad woman: “Hindus will produce two children and Muslims will marry five times and produce 35 dogs each and make this country into an Islamic state”]

Scene 3: In which Hindu men are told they will all have to grow beards

Masterji [to group of shopkeepers]: Don’t let this opportunity pass by. This time if you don’t vote for BJP, disaster will strike this country. The country will be destroyed. The BJP is a party which thinks about the country. It thinks about the Hindu religion. There is no other party like it. The other parties, they are all agents of the Muslims. What else have they done other than this? Prices have gone up. I tell you, we must vote only for BJP.

Shopkeeper: Masterji, its time for me to run my shop. Here Hindus and Muslims both come. What is it to me whose government is formed? You have unfurled BJP’s flag first thing in the morning. If you’d like a cup of tea, you are welcome. Otherwise, please excuse me.

Masterji: Tea? You think I am desperate for your tea? Its because I’m concerned about this country and our religion that I’m asking you to vote for BJP. If you don’t vote BJP, you will regret it. This country will be enslaved. First it was enslaved by the British, now it will be enslaved by the Muslims. Even earlier it was enslaved by the Muslims. That Aurangzeb earlier cut your choti (tuft of hair) and took off your sacred thread. And now these tikas on your forehead will have to go and in their place you will have to grow beards. That day you will repent, Panditji. And you will be destroyed and so will this country.

Shopkeeper: He is really irritating!

Friend: Panditji, you are calling the Masterji mad but everything he said is correct. If today we don’t take care, these tilaks will go and we will all be sporting beards and caps.

Scene 4: In which Hindu women are told they will all end up wearing burqas


Masterji [to group of women complaining about price rise]: Listen, elections are coming and only by your votes can this country and the Hindu religion be saved. Otherwise we are standing at the jaws of slavery again. This time we have to make BJP victorious and vote on the Lotus symbol.

Woman 1: Well you men know best, we will vote where you say.

Woman 2: People keep coming to ask for our votes.

Woman 3: No one is bothered about prices.

Masterji: That is why I am saying, if BJP is in power, everything will be all right.

Woman 4: Masterji, why are you chewing your brains? People will vote for whoever they want.

Masterji: It is your brain that has been ruined! You will end up covered in burqas and eating paan!

Scene 5: In which a Muslim boy abducts a Hindu girl

[A social worker comes to a village looking for Aunty Chameli. Aunty is lying huddled in bed]

Social worker: Aunty, what happened?…
Chameli: A Muslim boy pretended to be Hindu and lured my young daughter away. Fearing loss of face, my husband committed suicide. If I say I am going to the police, then those people threaten me

[Cut to visual of a Muslim man wearing a turban and looking threateningly]

that if you report us, we will kill your child. Now you tell me what should I do?

Social Worker: Don’t worry, now that I am here, we will take care of you, we will solve everything.

Chameli: Please bring my daughter back. Who knows what kind of terrible things are happening to her.

[Cut to scene of Chameli’s daughter praying in front of portrait of Krishna]

Daughter (Gita): Om Jai Jagadish Hare!…

[Man walks up and throws Krishna portrait on the floor]

Muslim man: If you perform puja in this house again, I will really fix you. Remember that.

Geeta: What is this you have done, Ram? You have thrown Bhagwanji’s picture! What is this you have done, Ram?

Muslim man: Ram? Ha ha ha! My name is not Ram, it is Shehzad Ali. And I am not a Hindu but a true Muslim! Ha Ha ha ha!

Geeta: What is this you are saying? You are lying.

Muslim man: Listen carefully to what I say because from today, I am no longer Ram and you are no longer Geeta. From today, your name is Fatima Begum. And tomorrow, you will be married to this boy, Yaamin, according to our rituals. [Cut to picture of older man laughing in evil manner]. And then you will have to live with him.

Geeta: (Crying) You are lying. This can’t be.

Muslim man (slaps Geeta): And don’t ever utter a name which is against our Islam. What is there in these pictures? (Camera pans to portrait of Krishna on floor). Where is God? This is all lies. If you want to pray, pray to that Khuda who has made the whole universe.

Geeta: (Breaks down, falls at his feet, and says with folded hands) Let me go back to my home.

Muslim man: Home? Ha ha ha! Which home? This is your home and you will have to live here. And stop this puja-wuja and start namaz. Because by tomorrow, you will have become a true Muslim. Yaamin! Come here. Take this girl away. Tomorrow you will be married to her.

Yaamin: (Grabs girl’s hand) Come on begum. I will really make you happy.

[Yaamin drags girl away, leaving her dupatta behind]

Muslim man: Ha ha ha! When Hindu girls get ensnared by us, they scream and shout but sadly there is no one to listen to them and we have great fun. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Text on screen: Love in Jihad [sic], injury to Hindu religion, and forced conversion. This is the protection provide by the SP government.

[The next 15 minutes of the VCD are taken up with the social worker on a mission to meet the U.P.Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, in Lucknow, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi. She cannot meet them but hears a candid confession from their ‘political secretary’ that the SP and Congress are in politics only for power. She is then given a BJP CD by the chief of Aunty Chameli’s village and decides that the BJP is the only party worth supporting]

Scene 6: In which we are told how India will soon have no Sohanlals, only Naqvis

[Newspaper man brings headlines of terrorist attacks. Masterji shouts that this is what he has been warning about for years but people thought he was mad. In anger, he pushes the newspaper man’s bicycle, but then has a heart attack and dies.]

[Cut to funeral scene: Social worker, shopkeepers and all the dramatis personae we have met so far congregate around Masterji’s body]

Shopkeeper 1: He was a great man, always worried about the country and our religion. One day he came to my shop and said Ramlalji, the country will be partitioned once again because Hindus are forgetting their culture and the government is taking the side of the Muslims.…

Shopkeeper 2 : Yes, he was a true patriot. He used to consider the Samajwadi government as pro-Muslim and that is what is happening in reality.

Mourner: Do you know the Mulayam government has hired 13,000 Urdu teachers? So are ulema going to teach us from now? And they have removed all laudatory references to the Hindus from the curriculum. What will happen to Hindu culture?

Social Worker: Who knows how many more masters will be martyred because of their concern for this country! But your eyes will still not open. And now, that day is not far away when we will be afraid to even call ourselves Hindu, and you will never be able to find a Sohanlal, Mohanlal, Atmaram or Radhekrishan anywhere. Wherever we look, we will only see Abbas, Naqvi, Rizvi, and Maulvi. All schools and colleges will be shut down. What will open are madrasas from where fatwas will be issued to drive Hindus out from this country, enslave them, because we want to rule over here, we want to make India into Pakistan. Then it will be difficult for Hindu girls to ever venture outside their houses. Muslims will seize their homes. Then who will protect their honour?

Old man: No. We will never allow this to happen. In order to realise Masterji’s dreams and prevent India from becoming Pakistan, we must live and die for the nation.

Social worker: Come let us take a vow.

[All join hands over Masterji’s body and shout ‘Vande Mataram! Jai Sri Ram! Vande Mataram! Jai Sri Ram!]

Social worker: Just as the slogan of Vande Mataram inspired us to throw out the British, today we have to take an oath to drive out those traitors from the country

[Cut to visual of BJP flag]

Social worker: Let us move ahead waving the flag of the BJP and saffron flag. Jai Sri Ram!

[The CD concludes with songs, visual montages of BJP leaders giving speeches, clips of the Babri masjid being demolished, etc]

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[Guest]

<b>Sari stampede: Lalji gets clean chit </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi: BJP politician Lalji Tandon got a clean chit in the sari stampede case of Lucknow on Saturday. The court cleared Tandon of all the charges filed against him in the stampede case, which claimed lives of 21 women in 2004.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<b>BJP CD producer receives threats </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In the three-point statement, the party has clarified that:
This was not the official party CD and the BJP had no intention of using it for political campaigning in Uttar Pradesh.

People who were associated with the production and distribution of CD were relatively new entrants in party. As soon as the top brass came to know about the contents of the CD, it was withdrawn and the concerned people were suspended.

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Final result

MCD POLL RESULTS
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BJP 164
Cong 69
Others 39
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As wild celebrations erupted among BJP leaders and workers, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who has presided over the capital since 1998, accepted defeat and wished the victors "best of luck" in managing the biggest, richest and reputedly worst managed among three civic bodies in Delhi.
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The BJP termed the outcome a vote against the Congress party, which had badly wanted to retain control of MCD in order to prepare for assembly elections next year.
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<b>"I voted for the BJP for the first time in my life because I am frankly sick and tired of the way this city is run," said N.P. Ishwaran, a resident of south Delhi. "I wanted the Congress to go."

Added Pawan Bansal, also from south Delhi: "In the area where I live, the BJP hardly did any campaign yet they won easily. There was so much anger against the Congress."</b>
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Guys!

CON men and COMMIE scoundrels are even going to the extent of stopping IIM/IIT admissions to reach their goal of destroying INDIA and Indian growth. I think people are getting sick day by day filled with anger at the destruction being brought upon by evil UPA. The wimp ManMohan singh is letting SONIA and enuch chamchas led by SCUMBAGS such as Arjoon Singh. I think people realized the greatest mistake they have committed in the last election. This SH!TTY alliance is OUT to DESTROY INDIA and its GROWTH.

[Guest]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Exit_po...how/1872157.cms

Exit polls: BSP may top hung House in UP


NEW DELHI: If exit polls are to be believed, the first phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh has been somewhat bad for the ruling Samajwadi Party and pretty good for the BSP, but at the end of it all the state might end up with an assembly that's well and truly hung.

The four separate exit polls conducted by Times Now, Star News, NDTV and India TV did not agree on exactly how well the major parties had done in this particular phase, but the two that made projections for the entire state based on these polls agreed that the BSP would finish as the single largest party followed by the SP, the BJP and the Congress in that order. They also agreed that no party would get more than 135 seats in the 403-member assembly.

The TIMES NOW -Hansa exit poll predicted that the SP would fare best in the first round of polling. It gave the SP 22 seats, with a range of 20-24, out of the 62 seats that went for polling in the first phase of assembly elections. It forecast 18 seats for the BSP (range of 16-20), 15 for BJP (range 13-17) and 5 for the Congress (range 3-7).

The Star News -AC Nielsen poll said the SP was likely to win 15 seats in the first phase, a drastic decline from the 24 it won in 2002 and an even sharper drop from the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, when it led in 45 of these seats. It suggested the BSP would win 20 seats, up from 14 in 2002, while the BJP and its allies would win 19, one more than they did last time.

For the state as a whole, it projected the BSP to finish with 135 seats, the SP with 103 and the BJP alliance with 99 seats. The Congress, which this exit poll said would get five seats in phase 1, is projected to win 28 seats in the state.

The NDTV exit poll, done by IMRB, shows the SP doing somewhat better, with 20-24 seats in the first phase, ahead of the BSP's 16-20, the BJPs 12-16 and the Congress 6-10. The poll projects 120-130 seats for SP, very close to the 125-135 seats for BSP and well ahead of the 80-90 seats it said the BJP alliance was likely to win. The Congress is predicted to almost double its 2002 tally of 25 and finish with 40-50 seats.
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You all know what this means. The anti-national media is making up the polls to drive muslim votes from SP to BSP and hoping somehow BSP will get enough seats and they can form govt. with the help of CON woman's party.

All the polls so far they have projected in the last one year went wrong and BJP came out with flying colors. I hope this happens this time too.

[Guest]

<b>Doctor emerges BJP's best bet in Delhi </b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Echoing Vardhan's view, BJP leader LK Advani, at whose house winning candidates gathered to celebrate, said, "The people of Delhi have rejected the Congress. I think we will get the same results in the 2008 Assembly election also."

When Vardhan took over as Delhi BJP president, former Chief Minister Madan Lal Khurana was on his way out of the party, having led it to defeat in the 2003 Assembly poll. <b>Khurana left the party shattered and scattered</b>.

The challenge before Vardhan was to get rid of the dead wood and project a new line of leadership.<b> He also had to rescue the party from the clutches of a few veterans who treat it as their fiefdom. He had to confront with perceptively 'taller' politicians like Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Vijay Goel and Sahib Singh Verma.</b>

Never in a hurry, during the initial period Vardhan worked for strengthening the organisation at the grassroots level, raising the ante as the MCD election neared. The results have established him as the most prominent and new face of the Delhi BJP.

He has not only strengthened the organisation<b> but also expanded the party's base in JJ clusters and resettlement colonies, which till now were considered traditional Congress vote-banks. This is borne out by the fact that the BJP has won several seats in resettlement colonies and even Muslim-dominated areas</b>.

By nominating Vardhan in as the Delhi BJP chief in 2003, the leadership made it clear that the days of the parochial old guard were numbered and that the party would now look beyond communities and castes to revive its electoral fortune.

The nomination of Vardhan, an internationally reputed medical professional and the initiator of the pulse polio campaign, has also helped the BJP to attract, as reflected by the results, young and migrant voters. It has enabled the party to project itself as changing with the times and the new political culture of Delhi.

According to Vardhan, when he took over the Delhi BJP, he realised that the complexion of the city had changed. <b>"The days of Bania-Punjabi politics are over</b>. <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->  Any party or institution cannot survive without involving people from all sections of the society, irrespective of their caste or class, whether they are Bihari, Malayali or Bengali," he said.

Justifying his position, he added, "The organisation needs people from all sections to make it more vibrant. This is the reason I<b> have never preferred caste-based politics and I will continue to stick to my line."  </b> <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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