By Chandan Rai (Guest Writer)
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) appears, which has given a call for boycotting the 16 th Lok Sabha polls, appear to be divided regarding their tactics vis-à-vis the largest democratic exercise worldwide.
If the recent activities of the banned Left Wing Extremist outfit CPI (Maoist) are any indications, they seem to be split over their modus operandi during the 16th Lok Sabha elections. While they have given a poll boycott call in a number of their pocket areas in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh, the Red rebels have decided to urge the people to opt for the NOTA (none of the above) option in various areas.
By Burhan Khan | Varanasi
Meraj Khalid Noor, who is fondly called as Bihar’s own Osama Bin Laden, because of his strange resemblance to the late Al-Qaida leader announced that he would be contesting the Lok Sabha election from Varanasi against BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
Noor, who is the chief of newly formed political party called ‘Ram India’, said that after much deliberation he has decided to contest polls against PM nominee Narendra Modi from Varanasi.
By Daisy Rani | INNLIVE
INVESTIGATION Cheats are violating the archaic system of franking of stamp papers and the online payment mechanisms to siphon off crores in stamp duty; INNLIVE’s investigations have revealed though 115 franking machines were surrendered to the state in the last one year, no one knows where they are.
The kingpin of the Rs 20,000 crore stamp paper scam Abdul Karim Telgi has been cooling his heels behind bars, but the scam he masterminded still rages on ten years after it first crippled the state government.
Maharashtra continues to suffer at the hands of new-age Telgi-like cheats, who are violating with ease the archaic system of franking of stamp papers and the online payment mechanisms to siphon off crores in stamp duty.
By Rajesh Mittal | Lucknow
BREAKING NEWS At least 25 people were killed and property worth several million rupees damaged in a dust storm that hit Lucknow and other parts of Uttar Pradesh late Thursday, officials said Friday.
Three people died in the state capital and Barabanki, eleven were killed in Jalaun, two in Kasganj and two in Faizabad and many others in various places of the state after hutments were uprooted and houses collapsed in gutsy winds that reached up to 75 - 80 km per hour. A two-year-old was buried alive in Dubagga area of the state capital when the wall of a school caved in.
By Amarender Singh | INNLIVE
ELECTION TAMASHA An election official changed the direction of EVM allegedly at the request of candidate and Union Minister K H Muniyappa to make it "Vastu" compliant, following which he was shifted from a polling centre in Kolar Lok Sabha constituency.
"The official has been shifted from Harohalli polling centre, which is in the city, for changing the direction of the Electronic Voting Machine on Muniyappa's request to make it Vastu complaint," Kolar Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer D K Ravi told INNLIVE.
By Kajol Singh | INNLIVE
EXCLUSIVE Naming children after Bollywood stars is a common practice in India. Little wonder then that there are several Amitabh Bachchans in their mid 30s and 20s on the electoral rolls this year and several Shah Rukhs and Salmans who are now teenagers.
However, oddly, voters are also named after Bollywood characters. According to the EC website it seems that the entire cast of Sholay — the 1975 cult film -- is listed in the data from 24 states.
By Vivek Sharma (Guest Writer)
ELECTION SCENARIO If elections have been called the ‘dance of Indian democracy’, the number staged in Mewat recently could well be one of the most vulgar yet. Evidently, the Executive has done the tango with the choreographers. The question now is: will the dance break records at the box-office or will it crash?
Last week Mewat demonstrated at the hustings how a people could just swindle through the half-shut eyes of the world’s largest democratic state without so much as a by-your-leave. Beyond the squeaky clean Nirvachan Sadan on Ashoka Road, one wonders how the supra-institution of the electoral process, the Election Commission of India, plants its feet in Indian muddy waters.
INNLIVE Election Team
LIVE ELECTION SURVEY The process of casting vote may have become rather simple over the years, but the media exposure and availability of information ensures that decision to go with a particular party or a particular candidate remains a difficult question.
INNLIVE has tried to understand the factors that influence voters’ decision. Since, this requires understanding mental faculties and social surroundings of the voters; we cared to involve psychologists, neurologists and social scientists to make sense of the responses given by our readers.
