Gujarat, HP, MP- Election 2007 - 3

ramana · 12-27-2007, 07:29 AM

He is from Telegraph. Not the Kul Brasta Nayar aka Wagh Kandle Kisser.

12-27-2007, 07:56 AM

wagah candle kisser is Nayyar.

12-27-2007, 10:08 AM

QUOTEJDS rebels meet in Karnataka for decision on joining BJPÂ
zeenews
Bangalore, Dec 27: Former Karnataka minister M P Prakash and his supporters, who have quit JDS, meet here on Thursday to decide whether to join BJP in the light of the party's victory in Gujarat polls.

Prakash, who has been waiting for the outcome of the Gujarat polls, told reporters here that he has convened a meeting of his supporters to decide on which political outfit they should join.

He said some BJP leaders in the state have been holding talks with a request join the saffron party and added a decision would emerge at the coming meeting.

Congress has also invited Prakash and his supporters to join it.

While former minister and Vokkaliga leader G T Devegowda recently quit JDS and joined BJP, another former minister P G R Sindhya yesterday walked into BSP fold.

Bureau ReportÂ

Hahaha!! They should use coin to select party, Aaya Ram Gaya Ram, these guys just believe in power not in ideology. They should select what suits them.
They can never be Modi, in Congress they just have to pray 10 Janpath Deity everyday and they can enjoy all benefits of power only doing bend down till deity is in power.

Bodhi · 12-27-2007, 01:54 PM

On Zee news, Siddhu was as hilarious as ever in silencing the congress panelists.

On star campaigner yuvaraj of INC:

pair na aavey joot
hum Thakur ke poot <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' />

{haven't yet learnt wearing shoes
but, "we are Thakur's son"}

On issuelessness of INC:

tel na kadhai
bechan chale mithai <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' />

{neither oil nor frypan
ready to sell sweets}

Congress slogan, and Gujarat janata's response:

Congress ka haath janata ke saath {'hand' of congress with public}
Janata ka haath congress ke gaal {'hand' of public slapping congress cheeks} <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' />

12-28-2007, 02:16 AM

<img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' />

COngress taking clue from Modi
Congress expels 45 leaders in Himachal PradeshQUOTEShimla: The Himachal Pradesh Congress on Wednesday expelled 45 leaders, mostly of district level, for working against the partyâs official candidates in the recently concluded Assembly elections.State Congress chief Viplov Thakur took strong note of anti-party activities of these leaders and expelled them from the party for six years, a release from the party said
Today is result day. Any bets?

Gujarat satta, 2000 crore went to BJP supporter
1350 crore lost by Congress supporter.

Shambhu · 12-28-2007, 08:02 AM

IBNuvacha:

Modi gets BJP's jadu ki jhappi, to be on top panel
Bhupendra Chaubey / CNN-IBN
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STAR VALUE: BJP is now keen to use âModi charismaâ in national politics on a bigger scale.
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New Delhi: Fresh from his landslide victory in Gujarat, Narendra Modi's stock within the BJP seems to be rising and he is headed for bigger things in Delhi. CNN-IBN has learnt that BJP has decided to bring him back to the Parliamentary Board, the highest decision-making body of the party.

Modi had been removed from this panel early this year. Now it's difficult for the party to keep him away, given his immense popularity among the people of Gujarat and different parts of the country.

There is an overwhelming view within the party now that considering Modi's rising popularity, he should be used effectively in the party's election management.

BJP has realised Modi's 'star value' and his immense potential as a powerful political orator and strategist when it comes to election managements. With several Assembly elections slated for 2008, Modi is expected to play a key role in strategising and campaigning for the party.

There is, however, still strong resistance within the party against Modi as many party leaders feel that extreme voices like Modi have no place in a coalition era. But after his resounding victory in the Gujarat elections, Modi is now too powerful to be ignored.

All this while, BJP President Rajnath Singh had carefully kept Modi out of the Parliamentary Board along with Arun Jaitly. When he took the decision to drop him from the powerful panel earlier this year, Rajnath had put the onus on the RSS, saying this was a decision which had 70 per cent approval of the Sangh.

Now after having won an election almost single-handedly without any support from the BJP top brass or the RSS or any other Sangh affiliate, Modi has emerged a hero, something that is giving the jitters to many of his own party colleagues.

In spite of all this, the BJP is now keen to use the âModi charismaâ â if not his politics â in national politics on a larger scale and he will surely be utilized in a big way in the next Lok Sabha elections.

12-28-2007, 08:41 AM

Himachal Pradesh
Assembly Elections Result on 28th Dec' 2007 Information
Available: - 11/68
Party Lead Won
BJP 9 -
INC+ 1 -
OTHERS 1 -

12-28-2007, 08:49 AM

HP Results: BJP-22, Cong-14, Others-2; Virbhadra trailing

State Elections 2007

Candidate Wise Trends-Himachal Pradesh

11:17 34 - Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh KEWAL SINGH PATHANIA (BSP) Trailing
11:17 56 - Kulu, Himachal Pradesh RAJ KRISHAN GOUR (INC) Trailing
11:17 31 - Santokgarh, Himachal Pradesh VIJAY KUMAR JOSHI (BSP) Trailing
11:18 12 - Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh HARI NARAYAN SINGH (BJP) Leading By 3821 Votes
11:18 38 - Jaswan, Himachal Pradesh NIKHIL RAJOUR (MANU SHARMA) (INC) Leading By 104 Votes
11:18 32 - Una, Himachal Pradesh SATPAL SINGH 'SATTI' (BJP) Leading By 9429 Votes
11:17 4 - Jubbal-Kotkhai, Himachal Pradesh NARINDER BRAGTA (BJP) Leading By 2824 Votes
11:17 30 - Chintpurni, Himachal Pradesh RAKESH KALIA (INC) Leading By 15754 Votes
11:16 28 - Nadaunta, Himachal Pradesh BALDEV SHARMA (BJP) Leading By 15564 Votes
11:16 66 - Joginder Nagar, Himachal Pradesh GULAB SINGH (BJP) Leading By 6018 Votes
11:16 45 - Sulah, Himachal Pradesh VIPIN SINGH PARMAR (BJP) Leading By 111 Votes
11:16 33 - Kutlehar, Himachal Pradesh VIRENDER KANWAR (BJP) Leading By 3440 Votes
11:15 67 - Darang, Himachal Pradesh JAWAHAR LAL THAKUR (BJP) Leading By 242 Votes
11:15 65 - Dharampur, Himachal Pradesh MAHENDER SINGH (BJP) Leading By 8589 Votes 
11:15 67 - Darang, Himachal Pradesh KAUL SINGH (INC) Trailing
11:14 34 - Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh RAKESH PATHANIA (IND) Leading By 2939 Votes
11:14 47 - Shahpur, Himachal Pradesh SARVEEN CHOUDHARY (BJP) Leading By 2118 Votes
11:14 8 - Simla, Himachal Pradesh SURESH BHARDWAJ (BJP) Leading By 2588 Votes
11:13 42 - Rajgir, Himachal Pradesh ATMA RAM (BJP) Leading By 2107 Votes
11:13 50 - Bhattiyat, Himachal Pradesh KULDEEP SINGH PATHANIA (INC) Leading By 298 Votes
11:12 68 - Mandi, Himachal Pradesh ANIL KUMAR (INC) Leading By 2743 Votes
11:12 15 - Pachhad, Himachal Pradesh GANGU RAM MUSAFIR (INC) Leading By 465 Votes
11:12 62 - Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh ROOP SINGH (BJP) Leading By 1741 Votes
11:10 51 - Banikhet, Himachal Pradesh RENU CHADHA (BJP) Leading By 235 Votes
11:10 51 - Banikhet, Himachal Pradesh ASHA KUMARI (INC) Trailing
11:09 10 - Arki, Himachal Pradesh GOBIND RAM (BJP) Leading By 719 Votes
11:09 31 - Santokgarh, Himachal Pradesh MUKESH AGNIHOTRI (INC) Leading By 4601 Votes
11:09 57 - Banjar, Himachal Pradesh SATYA PARKASH THAKUR (INC) Leading By 798 Votes
11:09 10 - Arki, Himachal Pradesh DHARAM PAL THAKUR (IND) Trailing
11:09 55 - Lahaul And Spiti, Himachal Pradesh DR. RAM LAL MARKANDA (BJP) Won By 2166 Votes
11:08 61 - Nachan, Himachal Pradesh DILE RAM (BJP) Leading By 6163 Votes
11:08 59 - Karsog, Himachal Pradesh HIRA LAL (IND) Leading By 5476 Votes
11:08 54 - Bharmour, Himachal Pradesh TULSI RAM (BJP) Leading By 16 Votes
11:08 54 - Bharmour, Himachal Pradesh THAKAR SINGH (INC) Trailing
11:07 17 - Shillai, Himachal Pradesh HARSHWARDHAN CHAUHAN (INC) Leading By 3464 Votes
11:07 5 - Chopal, Himachal Pradesh SUBHASH CHAND MANGLATE (INC) Leading By 2719 Votes 
11:07 5 - Chopal, Himachal Pradesh RADHA RAMAN SHASTRI (BJP) Trailing
11:06 22 - Ghumarwin, Himachal Pradesh RAJESH DHARMANI (INC) Leading By 1769 Votes
11:05 7 - Theog, Himachal Pradesh RAKESH VERMA (IND) Leading By 576 Votes
11:05 39 - Pragpur, Himachal Pradesh YOG RAJ (INC) Leading By 382 Votes
11:04 60 - Chachiot, Himachal Pradesh JAI RAM THAKUR (BJP) Leading By 2292 Votes
11:04 44 - Palampur, Himachal Pradesh PARVEEN KUMAR (BJP) Leading By 2375 Votes
11:04 43 - Baijnath, Himachal Pradesh SUDHIR SHARMA (INC) Leading By 3176 Votes 
11:04 44 - Palampur, Himachal Pradesh BRIJ BEHARI LAL BUTAIL (INC) Trailing
11:03 56 - Kulu, Himachal Pradesh GOVIND SINGH THAKUR (BJP) Leading By 5612 Votes
11:03 40 - Jawalamukhi, Himachal Pradesh RAMESH CHAND (BJP) Leading By 1972 Votes
11:02 41 - Thural, Himachal Pradesh RAVINDER SINGH (BJP) Leading By 5627 Votes
11:02 52 - Rajnagar, Himachal Pradesh SURINDER BHARDWAJ (INC) Leading By 1966 Votes
11:01 53 - Chamba, Himachal Pradesh BAL KRISHAN CHAUHAN (BJP) Leading By 4415 Votes
11:01 35 - Gangath, Himachal Pradesh DES RAJ (BJP) Leading By 537 Votes
11:01 64 - Gopalpur, Himachal Pradesh INDER SINGH (BJP) Leading By 2990 Votes
11:01 27 - Mewa, Himachal Pradesh ISHWAR DASS DHIMAN (BJP) Leading By 10375 Votes
11:01 18 - Paonta Doon, Himachal Pradesh SUKH RAM (BJP) Leading By 4862 Votes 
11:01 64 - Gopalpur, Himachal Pradesh RANGILA RAM RAO (INC) Trailing
11:00 6 - Kumarsain, Himachal Pradesh PRAMOD KUMAR SHARMA (IND) Leading By 4946 Votes
11:00 11 - Doon, Himachal Pradesh VINOD KUMARI (BJP) Leading By 3206 Votes 
11:00 6 - Kumarsain, Himachal Pradesh VIDYA (INC) Trailing
10:58 36 - Jawali, Himachal Pradesh RAJAN SUSHANT (BJP) Leading By 2843 Votes
10:58 9 - Kasumpti, Himachal Pradesh SOHAN LAL (INC) Leading By 7234 Votes 
10:58 36 - Jawali, Himachal Pradesh SUJAN SINGH PATHANIA (INC) Trailing
10:57 46 - Nagrota, Himachal Pradesh G. S. BALI (INC) Leading By 4710 Votes
10:57 23 - Geharwin, Himachal Pradesh RIKHI RAM KAUNDAL (BJP) Leading By 2679 Votes
10:57 24 - Nadaun, Himachal Pradesh SUKHVINDER SINGH SUKHU (INC) Leading By 567 Votes
10:51 2 - Rampur, Himachal Pradesh NAND LAL (INC) Leading By 6188 Votes
10:49 25 - Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh URMIL THAKUR (BJP) Leading By 6856 Votes
10:48 48 - Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh KISHAN KAPOOR (BJP) Leading By 5931 Votes 
10:48 48 - Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh CHANDRESH KUMARI (INC) Trailing
10:47 19 - Nahan, Himachal Pradesh KUSH PARMAR (INC) Leading By 1259 Votes
10:47 63 - Balh, Himachal Pradesh PRAKASH CHAUDHARY (INC) Leading By 2029 Votes 
10:47 19 - Nahan, Himachal Pradesh SHYAMA SHARMA (BJP) Trailing
10:44 58 - Ani, Himachal Pradesh KISHORI LAL (BJP) Won
10:43 16 - Rainka, Himachal Pradesh DR. PREM SINGH (INC) Leading By 3279 Votes
10:38 13 - Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh DR. RAJIV SAIZAL (BJP) Leading By 6374 Votes
10:37 3 - Rohru, Himachal Pradesh VIRBHADRA SINGH (INC) Leading By 14137 Votes
10:34 14 - Solan, Himachal Pradesh DR. RAJEEV BINDAL (BJP) Leading By 4211 Votes
10:34 21 - Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA (BJP) Won
10:30 37 - Guler, Himachal Pradesh HARBANS SINGH (BJP) Leading By 2332 Votes
10:24 29 - Gagret, Himachal Pradesh BALBIR SINGH (BJP) Leading By 3071 Votes 
10:24 29 - Gagret, Himachal Pradesh KULDEEP KUMAR (INC) Trailing
10:23 20 - Kotkehloor, Himachal Pradesh RANDHIR SHARMA (BJP) Won
10:15 49 - Kangra, Himachal Pradesh CHAUDHARY VIDYA SAGAR (BJP) Leading By 8 Votes
10:06 1 - Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh TEJWANT SINGH (BJP) Leading By 2489 Votes
10:05 26 - Bamsan, Himachal Pradesh PROF. PREM KUMAR DHUMAL (BJP) Leading By 26007 Votes

12-28-2007, 09:13 AM

HP Results: BJP-27, Cong-13, Others-2; Virbhadra trailing

Party TRENDS TRENDS:SWING TALLY TALLY:SWING

BJP 30 18 + 0 0
CONG 17 14 - 0 0
OTHERS 2 4 - 0 0

12-28-2007, 09:16 AM

'Focus on big picture was Modi's brief' 
25 Dec 2007, 0206 hrs IST , Sushil Pandit , TNN

Narendra Modi briefed me sometime in May, just before he was leaving for South Korea. Then, he was in the middle of his campaign, crisscrossing the state with scores of mahila sammelans, van-bandhu sammelans, sagar-khedu sammelans.

Through these sammelans, he addressed millions. On an average occasion, an audience of 50,000 or more would come to hear him. For example, he had addressed over 28 lakh women, cumulatively over two months, even before the monsoon set in. The brief I got from him was a tight one. "I have delivered in the last five years more than any CM, anywhere, ever," he said. "I want another five years to make Gujarat an international case study in good governance."

There were some stunning facts to go with it. Value of farm-output had grown four times. School drop-out rate was down to 3% from over 40%. All villages, without exception, were getting 24 hour, 3 phase power for homes. Besides, the pipelines and canals fetching Narmada water, more than 140,000 check-dams and village ponds across the state had solved the drinking-water and irrigation problems in a state that was perennially drought-prone, arid and dependent on water-tankers ferrying expensive water.

The number of registered unemployed in Gujarat had actually declined by over 15%. Almost a lakh rural-poor expecting mothers had delivered, assisted by private gynaecologists, all paid for by the state. To top it all, the past five years were riot-free, curfew-free, and despite being targeted by several terror groups from across the borders, terror-strike- free. 

But, even while he was carefully building up, sammelan by sammelan, Modi was worried. Just in case the verdict goes awry; it will be huge setback for the vibrant Gujarat that was striding ahead. But why would that happen, I asked. "Only if the election gets mired into constituency- level and candidate-level non-issues," he said.

Our task was clearly cut-out. We had to keep the voters vision on the big picture; the picture comprising larger overriding issues, common to the entire Gujarat. The first task was to define this election. The rallying-cry of our campaign was to emerge from this definition. 

Gujarat must foil all the propaganda tricks and traps devised to change its course, we were told. Gujarat must call the bluff of puffed-up rebels. It must see through the mischief of partisan media and not be misled. Gujarat must realize that it had to step out and vote, all by itself, and not wait for the traditional mobilization. The hope and confidence that Gujarat will prevail, led to the campaign slogan "Jeetega Gujarat".

"Jeetega Gujarat" became the battle-cry. It effortlessly replaced the traditional zindabads. But merely touting the achievements, however compelling, was not our idea of the "Jeetega Gujarat" campaign. It would have been too defensive and very self-congratulatory.

We decided to give it a sharper edge by comparing it with the wasted years under the Congress. The campaign decided to highlight UPA's poor record on national security, corruption, vote-bank politics and unfair treatment of Gujarat. 

One face and name that summed the contrast with a pan-Gujarat appeal was Narendra Modi himself. Our opinion polls confirmed that Modi's approval ratings, among the cross-section of voters, were a double-digit more than that of the BJP. Hence Modi became our spearhead to keep the election hinged to the Big Picture. And before too long, Modi became that Big Picture. Our best bet was to make the voters believe that they were voting not to elect their MLA but their chief minister. TV, with a penetration of over 85% across Gujarat, had to be a key medium. We did not shoot any film.

Instead, we just edited several short, but hi-impact commercials which showed Modi and his passion in public meetings. We ran them on Gujarati channels.

In the dailies, the ads articulated the same issues with brevity and impact. Radio, curiously, had to sit out of the fray due to an earlier SC ruling. Internet played a huge role. Numerous sites offering Modi wallpapers, ringtones became massively popular. The huge Gujarati Diaspora loved it. And barely 10 days into the campaign, we received a windfall. On December 1, Sonia in her very first day of the campaign, called those who ran Gujarat "merchants of fear and death". As if that wasn't enough, Digvijay Singh commented that with his statement about Hindu terrorists in Gujarat.

The next fortnight, Modi massaged every word of these gems, and their import, into his delirious audiences mind.

We did not have to worry anymore about the campaign getting stuck around MLAs. It had truly become a "Yes or No Modi" election.

http://tinyurl.com/38b4pa
Sushil Pandit was a member of the BJP campaign team.

12-28-2007, 09:34 AM

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CONG 16 16 -Â Â Â Â Â Â
OTHERS 4 2Â -
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BJP gets gets the 2/3rd majority. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' />

12-28-2007, 09:55 AM

Party TRENDS TRENDS:SWING TALLY TALLY:SWING

BJP 43 27 + 0 0
CONG 16 25 - 0 0
OTHERS 7 2 - 0 0

BJP's landslide win in HP

12-28-2007, 10:09 AM

PROF. PREM KUMAR DHUMAL BAMSAN BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY WON

BJP 45
CONG 17
OTHERS 5 

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How many states Sonia Congress is in power?
Harayana
Delhi
AP
J&K
Assam
Goa
Jharkhand

12-28-2007, 10:39 AM

It means Sonia & Rahul road is complete failure.
Congress Preisdent should resign, Congress should have internal election to elect new leader.

Naresh · (This post was last modified: 12-28-2007, 01:56 PM by Naresh.)

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Cheers <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' />

12-28-2007, 07:42 PM

BJP sweeps Himachal Pradesh polls

Bodhi · 12-29-2007, 12:12 AM

QUOTE(Mudy @ Dec 28 2007, 10:39 AM)It means Sonia & Rahul road is complete failure.
Congress Preisdent should resign, Congress should have internal election to elect new leader.
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wherever Rahul Baba does a "road show", Janata shows him road. UP, Guj, now HP.

01-01-2008, 12:59 AM

Why Sonia and the Congress lost Gujarat

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01-01-2008, 02:41 AM

Talked to a relative from MP recently (urban area). He was aware of the Guj elections intimately - he is prob 60 years of age and not at all a political person. He seemed to have noticed some kind of ads that INC put out on 'national' TV. Question for guroos -> is it common to show ads on national TV during assembly elections in a state ? If its not common then who were those ads for ?

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BTW what is the situation like in MP/Rajasthan ? The relative above mentioned that BJP was doing good in MP but as mentioned above the person is not at all a political person so cant be trusted. If BJP can retain MP/Raj then that would really drive INC into a corner. So whats the sitation like in MP/Raj ?

01-01-2008, 03:16 AM

QUOTEQuestion for guroos -> is it common to show ads on national TV during assembly elections in a state ?
This is recent phenomenon, local channel were asking 30k for 1 min ad.
I have seen ads in youtube by BJP, not sure whether it was for TV.
Indira Gandhi used to do, her so-called 20-point programme before election on TV.
At this stage it is difficult to say, someone I know in Rajasthan was saying, only caste will decide election plus Ram-setu effect.
Yesterday, RSS pracharak was shot dead by pious people of religion of peace in MP.
Something is brewing.

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