FischerTal Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Modi taking a selfie after voting.... next PM of India :king:
surajmal Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Narendra-Modis-electoral-milestone-437-rallies-3-lakh-km/articleshow/34400255.cms :hatsoff: Mind boggling number. Modi has given his all to win this election and if Indian populace still doesn't give him a large enough mandate then F'em; India will deserve to rot in the dustbin of history.
Sachin=GOD Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Narendra Modi @narendramodi Voted! Here is my selfie General comment - I really can't understand the obsession people these days have with selfies.
hhunaeh Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 General comment - I really can't understand the obsession people these days have with selfies. some people even use selfies as their lockscreen which i find even more confusing.
urbestfriend Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 dreamthatworks tarun 1h Offended by Modis invoking Vikram Batra? #Modi visited Kargil Heroes when he was a common Man! common man? General secretary of ruling party of worlds biggest democracy is common man to you?
diga Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Narendra Modi @narendramodi Voted! Here is my selfie General comment - I really can't understand the obsession people these days have with selfies. wants to connect with the yuppie audience :--D
bulbul Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 common man? General secretary of ruling party of worlds biggest democracy is common man to you? When a CM can call himslef common man,why not general secratary?
urbestfriend Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 When a CM can call himslef common man' date='why not general secratary?[/quote'] OK..So Modi "Was" common man when he was general secretary but no more a common man, according to Bhakts :haha: No wonder he favors khaas admis Ambani and Adani.
bulbul Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 OK..So Modi "Was" common man when he was general secretary but no more a common man' date=' according to Bhakts :haha: No wonder he favors khaas admis Ambani and Adani.[/quote'] When Balakrishnan can be common man why not ambani,adnai's? definition changed now :hmmmm2:
urbestfriend Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 When Balakrishnan can be common man why not ambani' date='adnai's? definition changed now :hmmmm2:[/quote'] OK, Correction: Although Modi is khaas admi, he favors other common men like Ambani and Adani.
bulbul Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 OK' date=' Correction: Although Modi is khaas admi, he favors other common men like Ambani and Adani.[/quote'] same like Shazia,somnath etc :icflove:
diga Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats 1h Do Congress candidates leave their hands at home? RT @firstpostin Congress files complaint against Modi for displaying BJP lotus near booth.
Sachin=GOD Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 The best democracy that money can buy The 2014 election is a reminder of the one big loophole in India’s election rules designed to favour parties backed by the rich: While individual candidates are not allowed to spend more than Rs. 54-70 lakh, there is no limit to what political parties may spend to promote their overall electoral prospects. Parties are only obliged to report their expenditure on general election propaganda to the Election Commission within 90 days of the Lok Sabha election ending. The EC has the right to verify the reported figures but can levy sanctions only if some of that ‘general’ expenditure was incurred to support individual candidates. Compare this to Britain, whose election system India broadly follows. There, a candidate can spend somewhere between GBP 10,500-12,000 (i.e. , Rs 10.5-11.8 lakh) depending on the size and location of constituencies. In addition, a party’s ‘national campaign’ spending is also capped at GBP 30,000 per constituency, or an upper limit of 19.5 million GBP (approximately Rs. 195 crore) for a party contesting every one of the 650 seats in the House of Commons. In the last British general election, all parties together spent GBP 31 million (Rs 310 crore approximately) in their national campaign. By way of comparison, the BJP alone spent Rs 448.66 crore in the 2009 Lok Sabha election while the Congress too spent a massive Rs 380.04 crore. While the British and Indian caps cannot readily be compared — India has larger, but Britain has more, constituencies, and the cost structure of the two economies is totally different – India’s failure to limit what parties can spend on general propaganda has given big money power a huge role in our elections. Indications are that the amount being spent in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, especially by the BJP, runs to a figure at least ten times higher than five years ago. One estimate pegs the BJP’s advertising spend across all media including hoardings at a staggering Rs 5,000 crore. That’s just a bit less than the Rs 6,000 crore — roughly $1 billion the Obama campaign spent under all heads in the 2012 US presidential election! Once other expenses are added, the overall BJP budget will exceed that. What impact will the deployment of money on this scale have not just on the election outcome and the policies of the next government but on the future course of Indian democracy? Back in 1974, the Supreme Court in the Amar Nath Chawla case recognised the principle that election expenditure must be limited in order to ensure equality between candidates and to “eliminate as far as possible, the influence of big money in the electoral process.” Though it did not set a limit, it ruled that “some limitative ceiling” on expenditure for general party propaganda during elections “is eminently desirable”. The court saw the remote, top-down nature of electoral politics as the culprit. “If there is continuous community involvement in political administration punctuated by activated phases of well-discussed choice of candidates by popular participation in the process of nomination, much of unnecessary expenditure which is incurred today could be avoided… Large campaign funds would not be able to influence the decision of the electors if the selection and election of candidates become people’s decisions by discussion and not a Hobson’s choice offered by political parties.” If election expenditure were not limited, it said, political parties “would go all out for collecting contributions and obviously the largest contributions would be from the rich and affluent who constitute but a fraction of the electorate. The pernicious influence of big money would then play a decisive role in controlling the democratic process in the country.” This is precisely what is happening with the corporate sector now fully into the act, making both open and hidden contributions. Last month, the Delhi High Court found the Congress and BJP guilty of illegally accepting money from the UK-based firm, Vedanta. Those payments were made by cheque, but cash is still king because it is untraceable. In 2009, cash accounted for 75 per cent of the money raised by the Congress and half of that of the BJP. In 1943, even before India was free, Babasaheb Ambedkar spoke of the danger posed by the fusion of capital and politics: “These days, with the Press in hand, it is easy to manufacture great men,” he noted caustically — and presciently. “In establishing their supremacy” our great men “have taken the aid of big business and money magnates. For the first time in our country, money is taking the field as an organised power.” Seventy years on, the influence of big money has grown exponentially. Yet there is little recognition of the damage this is doing to the integrity of our electoral process. The biggest national and regional parties have a vested interest in allowing the status quo to continue. Change will come only when the ‘aam aadmi’ realizes this is what is keeping him out of power. link
Khalpat Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Live: Modi faces 2 years in jail for holding lotus symbol during press meet 2:00 pm: EC tells Gujarat authorities to take action against Modi, could face upto 2 years in jail The Election Commission seems to have taken the matter of Modi holding a press conference pretty seriously and has told the Gujarat government to take action against him under section 126 1(b) of the Representation of People's Act. The section of the law prevents the holding of a press meet within 48 hours before polling had ended. If a candidate is found guilty of displaying the party symbol or election material, the candidate can face upto two years in jail and a fine or both. Popcorn Time.
bulbul Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Live: Modi faces 2 years in jail for holding lotus symbol during press meet Popcorn Time. Modi will run country from Jail :yay:
FischerTal Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Live: Modi faces 2 years in jail for holding lotus symbol during press meet Popcorn Time. SG can breath easy now :yay:
Khalpat Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 SG can breath easy now :yay: If this really happens and somehow Modi is not been able to become PM despite BJP majority. It would be the biggest KLPD of this world. Remembering Shakti Kapoor's dialogue: "aaww haath ko aaya mooh na laga" :hysterical:
FischerTal Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 If this really happens and somehow Modi is not been able to become PM despite BJP majority. It would be the biggest KLPD of this world. Remembering Shakti Kapoor's dialogue: "aaww haath ko aaya mooh na laga" :hysterical: According to twitter, he flashed Lotus symbol more than 150 meters away from booth, so should be fine.
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