West Bengal, Kerala, TN, ASSAM Election -2006

04-22-2006, 09:11 PM

Maoist Posters in Kolkata's Coffee House

04-22-2006, 11:15 PM

coffee house is the calcutta equivalent of the jnu canteen.
mao, che, anti bush and pro vietnam/iraq/mars.

04-23-2006, 12:43 PM

QUOTE(k.ram @ Apr 22 2006, 09:11 PM)Maoist Posters in Kolkata's Coffee House
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Could be a scare tactic.....vote for Commies or else Maoists are coming to Kolkata....as Kol has always been Trinamul or Cong ...stronghold.

With the situation in Nepal being highly volatile and very close to Bengal, plus history of Gorkha problems in darjeeling, closeness to both Bangladesh, China....Bengal is very strategically located.... and this threat should be taken up by GOI immediately with emergency measures......if GOI is still alive...

.........it seems to me that GOI is vacationing somewhere in the mediterranean region....with pizzas, pastas.......Quattrochchi......

04-29-2006, 12:07 AM

QUOTEBrahmins to vote against AIADMK 
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PTI | Chennai
Bitter over the way the Tamil Nadu Government handled the affairs of the 2000-year-old Kanchi mutt, Thamizhanadu Brahmin Association (Thambraas) on Friday said all its members would vote against the ruling AIADMK in the May 8 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.

"Thambraas strongly believes that the present Assembly election is the one and only opportunity for the hurt devotees to express and record their disapproval of the way the AIADMK and its Government handled the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt affairs," Thambraas State president N Narayanan said.

He said Thambraas had floated a political party "Makkal Desiya Jananayaka Katchi - MDJK" (People's National Democratic Party) and had entered into an electoral pact with the BJP, agreeing upon highlighting the "issue of Kanchi Seer and attempts to denigrate the Kanchi mutt" in the elections.

MDJK, he said had fielded two candidates in the May 8 polls - Mukta Srinivasan, a former Congressman, in city's Thyegarajanagar constituency and its vice-president and a dalit, Sowrirajan, at Thiruvadaimaradur in Thanjavur district.

Narayanan alleged the Chief Minister was also "inaccessible" to people and even to the elected representatives.

04-29-2006, 07:50 AM

[quote=Mudy,Apr 29 2006, 12:07 AM]
[quote]Brahmins to vote against AIADMK 

In the Kanchi Forum.specially started for supporting the Kanchi Acharyas,

some( brahmins?) are very actively rooting for the DMK- praying at the same

time for the amelioration of the condition of the Acharyas !

05-06-2006, 10:26 PM

<img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/argue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='argue.gif' /> BJP: EC should cancel elections in Tamil Nadu
Source: PTI.

Salem, May 6: BJP today asked the Election Commission to cancel Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and conduct them once again as the DMK and AIADMK's announcements of freebies were against the model code of conduct.

"Dravidian parties have been announcing free rice, gold, TV, computer etc after the election notification was made, which amounts to code of conduct violation," BJP's poll in-charge in Tamil Nadu Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters here.

"The EC should conduct the poll process once again," he demanded.

Taking a dig at the parties, he said "they however, did not announce anything on providing employment to the jobless of the state." Rudy claimed that BJP would be a decisive factor in the government formation in the state. "Both the fronts would not get a clear majority and BJP's support would decide who should rule the state," he claimed.

On the DTH controversy surrounding Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran, he said "Maran himself should resign from his ministerial post". However, his party would take up the issue in the next session of the Parliament, he said.

05-07-2006, 04:04 PM

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05-07-2006, 09:10 PM

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05-08-2006, 10:31 PM

Amma losing?

QUOTEAn exit poll conducted by Times Now TV channel and Hansa on Monday night predicted a clean sweep for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led Democratic Progressive Alliance in Tamil Nadu and for the Left in West Bengal and Kerala and a hung assembly in Assam in the assembly elections.

05-08-2006, 11:07 PM

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Kerala is also expected to go the Left way, according to earlier exit polls. The cliffhanger could be Tamil Nadu, where the ruling AIADMK faced a determined challenge from the DMK and its allies including the Congress.

In Tamil Nadu 2,586 candidates were in the fray, and over 60 percent of the 46 million voters in Tamil Nadu turned up at the 51,534 polling centres.

DMK president M. Karunanidhi voted with his family at the Thousand Lights constituency in Chennai where his son M.K. Stalin is a candidate and declared triumphantly: "We will win as many as 200 seats."

AIADMK chief and Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha, contesting from Andipatti, voted at the Stella Maris Girls College, also in Chennai. She was circumspect and did not want to make any predictions.

Amongst the other celebrity voters were Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in Sivaganga district and actors Ajit and Shalin who stood for nearly two hours in a long queue at a polling station in Chennai.

The Congress hopes to retain power in Pondicherry and Assam. But most analysts have warned that holding on to Assam would not be easy.

Pondicherry's six million voters were to elect 27 legislators Monday from among 199 in the fray. Three constituencies had elections in the first phase May 3.

According to political analysts, if the Congress loses Assam on top of Kerala, and if Sonia Gandhi's winning margin falls drastically, it would be major blows to the party and to its chief personally.

The Congress campaign in Rae Bareli was in the hands of the Gandhi family. Sonia Gandhi's son and MP Rahul was the campaign manager and spent days there while daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadera was her election agent.

On Monday, Priyanka Gandhi gave a hint of her own disappointment when she blamed the weather for the low voting in Rae Bareli, a family bastion.

"When people can see that there are no major opponents in the fray (apart from Sonia), they seem to lose interest and therefore do not make an effort to come out and vote," she said outside a polling centre in Bachrawan.

"The low turnout is also because of the hot weather. Don't you see how hot it is?" she asked.

Besides the Congress president, others in the fray include Vinay Katiyar of the BJP and Raj Kumar Chaudhary of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party.

Counting of votes will take place in all five states as well as Rae Bareli Thursday. There was no violence Monday barring a shooting incident in Rae Bareli in which a Samajwadi Party activist was injured.

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05-09-2006, 09:57 AM

[quote=electeddumbo,May 7 2006, 04:04 PM]
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05-09-2006, 12:36 PM

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05-09-2006, 09:11 PM

QUOTEDMK sunrise in exit polls 
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Chennai/Kolkata, May 8: Exit polls carried out by various television channels after voting in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections on Monday predicted a big win for the DMK-led alliance. While Star News gave the Democratic Progressive Alliance (DMK plus allies) 172 seats and the AIADMK front 55 seats.

The CNN-IBN exit poll gave the DMK plus allies 157 to 167 seats, the AIADMK 64-74 and Others two to six. It also said 41 per cent of the people preferred DMK chief M. Karunanidhi as Chief Minister while 35 per cent wanted Ms Jayalalithaa at the helm. Actor-politician Vijayakanth, heading the fledgling DMDK, polled an impressive 10 per cent for the chief ministerâs post and the DMKâs prince-in-waiting, Mr M.K. Stalin, a mere one per cent.

In West Bengal, the exit poll results suggested a thumping majority for the Left Front. According to the Bengali news channel Star Ananda-AC Nielsen exit poll, the Left Front would win 208 seats, the Trinamul-BJP combine 44 seats, the Congress 33 seats and Others eight seats.Â The Kolkata TV-ORG/Marg exit poll predicted 195-205 seats for the Left Front, 46-54 seats for the Trinamul Congress, 30-35 seats for the Congress and seven to 10 for Others. If the predictions for Tamil Nadu are correct, the 82-year-old Dravidian warhorse will coast into Fort St. George as chief minister soon after the counting of votes is over on Thursday for a fifth term in a political career spanning over six decades.

âThe outcome looks very bright for us. Our alliance will get more than 200 seats and the DMK will be able to form a government on its own,â maintained a beaming Mr M. Karunanidhi, who heads the Democratic Progressive Alliance, which includes the Congress, PMK, the two Communist and two Muslim League factions. He had reason to smile for preliminary reports from the districts indicated that voting preferences could be on expected lines â the arithmetic of the larger DPA grouping overcoming the chemistry that AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa had hoped to work on the electorate.

In contrast to Mr Karunanidhiâs ebullience, Ms Jayalalithaa appeared rather quiet in her brief media interaction after casting her vote at the Stella Maris College, close to her Poes Garden bungalow in Chennai, on Monday morning. âI have said all that I wanted during the run-up to the polling. I do not want to make any further comment,â was all that she said.

Her new ally, Vaiko of the MDMK, declared at the poll booth in his native Kalingapatti that the AIADMK front would âsweep the pollsâ and the alliance would win over 200 seats. âI have been saying this from the very beginning,â he said. Another AIADMK ally, Thol Thirumavalavan of the Dalit Panthers of India, also said something to that effect.Â Opinion poll surveys and exit polls have often gone wrong and the voter ended up having the last laugh. It can happen again when the EVMs are lined up for counting on May 11. 

I hope it comes true.
DMK is another worst side.

05-11-2006, 08:58 PM

QUOTERed rides Kerala, Bengal; blow to JayaÂ 

Agencies | New Delhi
The communists are set to sweep two out of five assembly elections as votes were counted on Thursday. At least three major states may get new governments.

Buddhadeb wins with greater margin in West Bengal
In West Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee won from the Jadavpur constituency in south Kolkata with a huge margin.

Bhattacharjee's emphatic win this time in the 274,932-voter-strong constituency in South 24 Parganas district is reflective of his popularity and charisma that was working wonders across the state.

His victory margin has gone up from 29,281 in 2001 to 58,130 in 2006.

"It is not my victory but our victory. It is the victory of the people. I thank them," Bhattacharjee said.

Both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress had fielded candidates against the Chief Minister.

The 2006 poll has been largely seen as a mandate for the Chief Minister's image as an able administrator and his pro-reform stand.

Crushing its rivals, West Bengal's ruling Left Front was all set for a seventh consecutive term with a three-fourths majority in the 294-member assembly.

Among other notable winners are Trinamool Congress candidate and Tollywood actor Tapas Pal who beat his screen colleague Biplab Chatterjee of the CPI-M in Alipore in south Kolkata and ace swimmer Bula Chowdhury, a CPI-M candidate, in Nandanpur in West Midnapore.

Subhas Chakraborty, transport and sports minister, also won in Belgachia East in north Kolkata under North 24 Parganas district.

The CPI-M suffered a major setback in south Kolkata where its important leader Rabin Deb lost to Javed Khan of Trinamool in Ballygunge.

Karunanidhi does not rule out coalition govt in TN
DMK President M Karunanidhi said he would decide on the question of forming a coalition government in Tamil Nadu after consulting leaders of the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA).

Addressing a press conference, amid news that the DPA front was heading for a massive victory in the May 8 Assembly polls, a buoyant Karunanidhi said, "once the complete results are out, we will decide on the formation of Government after holding talks with the leaders of alliance partners".

Karunanidhi, however, gave an indication that his party was not averse to sharing with the allies.

When asked whether the state is heading for a coalition government for the first time in its history, he said if it becomes a reality, the credit should go to the DPA combine.

The DMK chief profusely thanked the people of the state for giving a clear mandate to the DMK-led front and also the leaders of alliance partners and the workers of various parties, who have worked tirelessly for the success.

UDF veterans suffer humiliating defeat in Kerala
In Kuttipuram, former Industries Minister and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) General Secretary PK Kunhalikutty, who had a strong base in the constituency, was defeated by KT Jaleel, the IUML youth leader who was expelled from the party.

Kunhalikutty was defeated by a margin of 8,781 votes.

Another IUML candidate and Education Minister ET Mohammed Basheer could not retain the Tirur seat. PP Abdulla Kutty of the CPI(M) defeated Basheer by a margin of 8,680 votes.

Also in the list is former Minister TM Jacob, who merged his Kerala Congress (J) with K Karunakaran's Democratic Indira Congress (K), who tasted his first electoral defeat in Piravam.

Assam headed for a hung assembly
Assam is all set to have a coalition government with the ruling Congress unlikely to reach the magical half-way mark on its own in the 126-member Assembly.

With trends available for 104 constituencies, the Congress has won three seats and was leading in 45 others. The party held 72 seats in the outgoing assembly.

Its nearest rival, the AGP has won only one seat so far and was ahead in 19 constituencies. The BJP was ahead in nine seats, CPI(M) in three, Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) six, while others in 17.

The Congress has won the Thowrah, Sonari and Mahmara seats though it suffered a setback in Amguri when Transport minister and Congress heavyweight Anjan Dutta lost to Prodip Hazarika of AGP.

The Congress, however, has a pre-poll understanding with a faction of the Bodoland Peoples Progressive Front (Hagrama), leaving five seats uncontested in the Bodoland areas.

The party was also hoping to form a coalition government with the help of independents and the AUDF, if possible.

Congress retains power in Pondicherry
The Congress-led Democratic Progressive Alliance retained power in the Union Territory winning 17 of the 25 seats declared by afternoon.

With the AIADMK combine winning nine seats till 1 pm, even if they emerge victorious in all five remaining seats, they cannot overtake the DPA tally.

There are 30 seats in the Territorial Assembly in the enclaves of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Yanam and Mahe.

So far, the Congress had won eight seats, followed by its ally the DMK with six seats. The PMK had secured three seats.

The rival AIADMK-led Democratic People's Alliance managed to secure only three seats. The Puducherry Munnetra Congress of former Congressman P Kannan, has won three seats, but Kannan lost election.

Two seats went to independents. The MDMK, an AIADMK ally, has made its presence felt in the Union Territory for the first time by winning one seat

05-11-2006, 09:38 PM

Jaya out, DMK back to power in TNQUOTEChennai, May 11: DMK president M Karunanidhi is likely to take oath as CM of Tamil Nadu on May 13. The DMK is likely to head a minority government with support from allies, the Left and PMK from outside.
Major Left parties, which had an understanding with the DMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu, today said they would extend support to the new government from outside.

"We will soon write a letter to the (Tamil Nadu) Governor extending support to the DMK to form government," CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters here, clearly indicating that they would not join government.


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Good finally someone will send her in jail for good.
Time to get a nice chair to watch circus in TN.

05-11-2006, 09:43 PM

QUOTE Supporters throng DMK
Â In Tamilnadu, it is always the central ruling party which decides the fate of the local winner. This time Karuna has effectively sealed a coalition with the ruling Congress which has tilted the scales in his favour. Jaya was unable to even talk about partnership with BJP after the arrest episode of Sankaracharya. She deserves to be defeated because AIDMK is a party full of local dadas and hooligans. There is not even a single leader apart from the supremo Jaya. There has been no economic development in the state except giving some gifts to the poor by Jaya in the name of relief operations. She is a very poor administrator always reacting to the rhetorics of Karunanidhi. He very cunningly made her do so many blunders by making statements in TVs including the arrest of Sankaracharya. Even in the campaign she reacted to Karunanidhi's freebies by announcing her own. It is high time one of the major national parties plan a long term strategy to dominate TN politics. Otherwise it will be a monopoly of Karunanidhi. There is clearly a vaccuum for the second place which should be grabbed by Congress by pumping in more resources in TN politics.
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05-11-2006, 09:48 PM

'Left intervention in national politics will increase'

'Don't take results as a positive vote for DMK'QUOTEChennai, May 11: The AIADMK alliance lost the polls by a narrow margin in many constituencies and hence the results cannot be construed as a positive vote for the DMK-led alliance, MDMK chief Vaiko said on Thursday.

In a statement, he said the âopinion aggressionâ indulged in by the DMK through a satellite channel had tilted the balance in that partyâs favour.

âCompared to the Lok Sabha elections, where the electorate gave a decisive mandate for the UPA, the current election had only indicated a downward trend in the DMK vote bank. The results are a clear indication that there is no anti-incumbency factor against the AIADMK, as the margins are very low,â he said.


So it mean in GE 2007, DMK will lose.
Congress is gone from Kerala also.
Only manage to retian Assam with thin margin.

05-12-2006, 01:02 AM

i just wish there was a way of electing BB alone and chucking the damn cpim simultaneously.

now that the latter didnt happen, lets hope BB keeps up the good work cos he alone stands between sanity and another cambodia case in WB.

05-12-2006, 03:31 AM

QUOTEArresting Seer, encouraging missionary failed to help Jaya. 
Why Jayalalithaa lost
In this long list, the Seer arrest is missing? Anyone from TN who can comment on this?

05-12-2006, 03:43 AM

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