Delhi Election Result: AAPsolute Majority. Delhi Chooses Kejriwal

[CHANDRU1849]

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Though BJP has more or less almost retained the percentage of votes polled compared to last Assembly election, the drubbing received from AAP is real. It was a direct fight between Modi and Kejriwal. The Congress vote share virtually had gone to AAP and no one really preferred BJP.

If a politician, irrespective of popularity, deviates from the mainstream, forgets poor people, provides only lip service, takes no concrete decision, fails to give good administration etc. will face severe humiliation, what BJP got in Delhi.

It was extremely disturbing that he was seen wearing a suit with pinstripes made from the repeated printing of his own name reported to have cost $ 17,000. He had forgotten what he said during Lok Sabha election rallies about bis background. The power has gone to his head and he is unable to control it.

The local leaders who toiled for BJP despite losses in the three previous elections, were totally sidelined. Modi and Amit Shah, both from Gujarat, had a total control of Delhi BJP and acted on their own, bringing Kiran Bedi, a rank outsider to lead.

Now, the time has come for Modi to completely change his attitude to bounce back, failing which drubbing of this nature may follow in other elections as well.

The popular writer late Ananthmurthy, after Lok Sabha election, said that people will regret for voting Modi. I am afraid this may become true.

 

[mkrishna100]

just like the BJP has the baggage of the Hardcore Hindutva elements in it and cant avoid it and have to sail and sink with them , the Congress also has the Baggage of the Gandhi Family and they have to sail and sink with the same and cant avoid them . The Only time Congress were ruled without the Gandhis were during Narasimha Rao time and while he brought about lot of reforms , Congress fortunes came down very much and they had to forcibly bring in Sonia to arrest the fortunes and it took Congress nearly 8 years from 1996 to 2004 to rebuild and come to the National level . Very few alternatives are with the congress and same with BJP to radically change their style of politics in a short time .

 

[Brahmanyan]

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Delhi 2015 results reminds me of the Election for Tamil Nadu Assembly held in 1991. In this elections
the AIADMK front under the leadership of Ms. J.Jayalalitha swept the polls with 225 seats (AIADMK alone
got 164 seats) out of the total 234 seats. Whereas DMK got 2 seats out of 7 seats won by their alliance.
Mr M.Karunanidhi who won Chennai Harbour seat resigned his seat immediately.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

 

[CHANDRU1849]

Delhi 2015 results reminds me of the Election for Tamil Nadu Assembly held in 1991. In this elections
the AIADMK front under the leadership of Ms. J.Jayalalitha swept the polls with 225 seats (AIADMK alone
got 164 seats) out of the total 234 seats. Whereas DMK got 2 seats out of 7 seats won by their alliance.
Mr M.Karunanidhi who won Chennai Harbour seat resigned his seat immediately.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

The election was held after Rajiv Gandhi's assasination, with the help of Congress. At that time, the Congress had sizeable vote bank in TN. It was before the split in 1996. Therefore, it was not JJ who swept the polls. The sympathy wave was also one of the reasons.

But everybody knows what happened after that election.

JJ lost the election in 1996, as a ruling CM, to an unknown candidate, a rare thing happened to a sitting CM in Indian Politics.

 

[tbs]

Delhi 2015 results reminds me of the Election for Tamil Nadu Assembly held in 1991. In this elections
the AIADMK front under the leadership of Ms. J.Jayalalitha swept the polls with 225 seats (AIADMK alone
got 164 seats) out of the total 234 seats. Whereas DMK got 2 seats out of 7 seats won by their alliance.
Mr M.Karunanidhi who won Chennai Harbour seat resigned his seat immediately.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

hi

i remember too...it was humiliating defeat for DMK......the ruling party without opposition...but she misused the power many times and

she got the result on consecutive elections.....

 

[sudeshwer]

in fact, if Modi accepts Kejriwal's invitation to attend and attend his swearing ceremony on 14th Jan., it will enhance Modi's reputation and standing - srinivasan

 

[sudeshwer]

atleast as face-saving BJP got 3 seats whereas Congress is decimated. shame - srinivasan

 

[sudeshwer]

Chandru Ji, y forgot. Late Kamraj Nadar also lost to an unknown person, ofcourse DMK candidate - srinivasan

 

[sudeshwer]

I hear Sonia has some Villa in Italy to settle. She has lots of money; so, living there shud not a problem for her. in fact it will be better for India - srinivasan

 

[sudeshwer]

It is nothing compared to the wrath that Modi earned from the Delhi Voters LOL . BTW I never made Modi wear that Narcissist Costume . He wore it and is now getting the eggs all over . In Politics while you happily receive the bouquets you must also be ready to receive the brickbats .
I still admire Modi the Individual and wanted him to be the Indias PM and do not regret the same but at the same time I am happy that he got this slap which was very much needed to make necessary course correction in his and his party attitude post the Parliament Election Victory in 2014 .

I think and am sure he will learn, rather he will have to learn, lest he is doomed - srinivasan

 

[sudeshwer]

I hear Sonia has some Villa in Italy to settle. She has lots of money; so, living there shud not a problem for her. in fact it will be better for India - srinivasan

 

[vgane]

The flaws that added to BJP's colossal defeat in Delhi

New Delhi: If the top leaders of the BJP have been candid in admitting that they didn't see the big Delhi shock coming, many in the party who have pounded the pavement for weeks, seeking votes for candidates, say they aren't surprised at all. Naresh Ghai, in his fifties, has for three decades been a grassroots worker with the BJP. In this election, he was assigned to ensure the BJP's loyal voter stepped out to vote. Officially he was a panna pramukh, but till a month or so ago, he was leading a local level committee in Krishna Nagar. For the first time, he says, the BJP introduced the concept of a panna pramukh, the manager of a page-long list of voter names, whose job was to ensure that they supported the BJP. The concept was introduced by BJP chief Amit Shah.
"The concept of panna pramukhs worked only on paper," says Mr Ghai, because the BJP often got basics wrong. Showing NDTV a list of names, he added, "See, Ramesh Wahi died over a year ago. But his name still figures in the list of panna pramukhs. That's how disconnected the party was from reality," he said.

Krishna Nagar in East Delhi has for years supported the BJP. It elected Dr Harsh Vardhan, one of the party's most senior leaders in the capital, five consecutive times. Its sweet spot as a safe seat was why it was assigned by the BJP as the constituency of Kiran Bedi, its Chief Ministerial candidate. Ms Bedi lost her election. About 90 days before voting took place, he said, the BJP removed mandal in-charge, locality level supervisors meant to encourage one-on-one dialogue with residents, and replaced them with new ones.
Chunmun Bindra, a panna pramukh in the area, says Ms Bedi's defeat was crafted inadvertently, and at least in part by the BJP. "The plan to defeat her was put in place 90 days ago when all the mandal office bearers were changed. The new ones had no clue and they kept loyal workers away from the campaign, didn't give them any work," he complained.
For the BJP, the rub lies not just in the scale of its defeat, but in the fact that in the national election just nine months ago, it had won the equivalent of 60 of Delhi's 70 assembly seats with a 46 per cent vote share. Yesterday, it won three seats with 32 per cent vote share; leaders could take solace from the fact that in a like-to-like comparison - between the last Delhi state election a year ago and yesterday - the party's vote share has declined by just 1 per cent.
BJP workers say statistics don't have to be mined to uncover other glaring mistakes. The BJP declared its candidates just three weeks before voting, allegedly because of deep fissures over who should be allowed to run, even announcing some names on the last day of filing nominations.
"We just didn't have enough time to campaign," said Honey Gupta, the former head of the local youth wing of the party. "Personal egos came in the way of party work. Old timers were ignored, new entrants with no local connect were given importance. It alienated many workers."

The Flaws That Added Up to BJPs Colossal Delhi Defeat

 

[vgane]

Whose defeat is it?

 

[vgane]

A defeat for PM Modi, says New York Times

While U.S. officials refrained from comment on Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) massive victory in Delhi elections, the New York Times saw “A Defeat for Prime Minister Modi” in the results.
“Fresh from the diplomatic high of a successful summit meeting with President Obama, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been brought down to earth by domestic politics,” the daily said in an editorial. “Ordinarily, elections in New Delhi would not draw international attention,” the Times said.
But since sweeping to power last year with the biggest national election victory in three decades, Mr. Modi and his BJP have generated “an aura of invincibility” winning a succession of other State elections, it said.
“The election won’t affect Modi’s hold on the Prime Minister’s Office and the federal government,” the Times said. “But it will increase the enormous pressure to deliver on his economic and governance promises even while making that harder.”
“After imploring Americans, Japanese and Chinese, as well as Indians, to believe in his vision, it is a good bet that no Indian federal budget will be more scrutinised for what it may, or may not, deliver on building infrastructure, reforming taxes and making a tangled, stratified system more efficient than the one Mr. Modi is expected to make public by the end of the month,” the Times said.
The State Department spokesperson declined comment on the Delhi elections calling it “an internal matter for the people and the Government of India.”

A defeat for PM Modi, says NYT editorial on Delhi polls - The Hindu

 

[vgane]

Who has been muffled?

 

[vgane]

Which is bigger 56 (inches) or 67 (seats)

 

[vgane]

Another hard hitting one!

 

[mkrishna100]

Ok Now that AAP and AK have won and everyone yesterday bashed Modi and BJP to their heart's content and now it is better that we focus on What Budget Modi will bring in and what sort of action plan does AK have for the Delhi . In politics nothing is permanent and so even AAP must not go overboard with its victory and become arrogant the way Modi and BJP behaved after their victory . After 6 months we will know who stands where . All the best to Modi and his team for the Maiden Union Budget and all the best to AK for his second innings as Delhi CM .

 

[CHANDRU1849]

Chandru Ji, y forgot. Late Kamraj Nadar also lost to an unknown person, ofcourse DMK candidate - srinivasan

But Bhakthavatsalam was the CM.

 

[a-TB]

When Modi came to power as PM their office opened a website. I had one grievance and filed a complaint. I was impressed first but nothing happened for all these months. Yesterday after the defeat in Delhi I go email saying they have assigned a case number to track ! At least some action is taking place - otherwise the website was becoming a joke

 

[mkrishna100]

When Modi came to power as PM their office opened a website. I had one grievance and filed a complaint. I was impressed first but nothing happened for all these months. Yesterday after the defeat in Delhi I go email saying they have assigned a case number to track ! At least some action is taking place - otherwise the website was becoming a joke

The after effect of getting a Royal Thrashing by the broom

 

[vgane]

A good one!

 

[vgane]

AAP was able to tap into students from prestigious IIT too...His community guys have supported him in toto...Divide of Hindu vote?

[h=1]How IITians helped engineer AAP's win[/h] Last updated on: February 11, 2015 12:20 IST



'This exercise helped the Aam Aadmi Party and its leaders reach out to more voters and at the same time, fine tune the poll strategy.'

IIT-B student Divyank Agarwal, part of a group of students who created a tool to trawl social media and steer AAP's campaign, speaks to Divya Nair/Rediff.com


Two months ago, Divyank Agarwal, a final year student at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, worked with a team of fellow students and developed an algorithm that monitored more than a thousand tweets and messages on social media, especially the language, and analysed voters' sentiments and reactions to various issues that concerned them about the Aam Aadmi Party, the state and its leaders.

The results and analysis were then conveyed to the AAP leadership in Delhi who used the data to fine tune the party's election strategy and interact with voters.


The algorithm was also used to determine the swing in the Delhi electorate's mood.


Agarwal tells Divya Nair/Rediff.com how this activity helped improve AAP's social and public image:

Corruption is an important issue that affects all of us, particularly the common man.

Most political parties and leaders in India talk about development, good roads, improved technology etc. Arvind Kejriwal is, and has been one of the few leaders, who raised the issue of corruption in India.


My friends and I could easily identify with the cause. I have been following Kejriwal ever since he took up the anti-corruption crusade that united millions. He formed a political party just so that he could deliver on the cause he took up so passionately.

Although my hometown is Jaipur and I am studying here in Mumbai, I could relate to most of the issues AAP raised in its poll campaign -- water supply, electricity, fair governance.


People in Delhi had a lot of hope in Kejriwal, who identified him as the messiah of the common man.


His resignation came as a shock, but a lot of people took advantage of his decision and made a mountain of a molehill, which I felt was unnecessary.

As I spoke to some of my friends at IIT-B, we realised there was still a lot of promise in Kejriwal and his party. AAP deserved a second chance and we wanted them to win and at least get a five year term to work on their promises.


In the last two months, some of us visited the party office in Mumbai and devised a tool to connect with voters through social media.

Our task was to carefully analyse the sentiments of people regarding the party -- through tweets, comments and social media posts -- and convey them to the party office in Delhi.


This exercise helped AAP and its leaders address and reach out to more voters and at the same time, fine tune the poll strategy according to current needs.

Four of us, including me, took a train to Delhi to help AAP in its campaign directly. When we reached, we saw thousands of volunteers who, just like us, had come to lend their support.


We campaigned at Model Town, Lal Bagh and Gur Mandi in Delhi, interacting with voters, urging them to step out of their homes and exercise their right to vote.


Some of them complained that they were yet to get their voter IDs and ration cards and so could not vote.


During our door-to-door campaigns, we realised that the residents in Lal Bagh were not at all happy with the living conditions and were upset that nothing had been done by the previous government.


Some of them complained how their water and electricity connections were deliberately cut off from time to time.

Although it was impossible to tell who would vote for whom. We saw that over 60 per cent voters were in favour of AAP which strengthened our hopes further.


On February 7, some of us visited election booths to ensure that polling went smoothly and there was no untoward incident.

All the volunteers have been working day in and out to reach out to voters and make the campaign successful.


Now that the Aam Aadmi Party has won, we feel our efforts have paid off. The people of Delhi have responded well.

Also I feel, any party will require at least five years to prove itself.


I hope the Aam Aadmi Party with Arvind Kejriwal as its leader lives up to our expectations and hopes this time.

How IITians helped engineer AAP's win - Rediff.com India News

 

[a-TB]

The after effect of getting a Royal Thrashing by the broom

Indeed! Actually it is computer generated ticket number with no other information. I dont think anything has happened or will happen.

 

[mkrishna100]

Indeed! Actually it is computer generated ticket number with no other information. I dont think anything has happened or will happen.

One by one the lies start getting exposed now . Modi's Media Managers have shut themselves in a rat hole and finding difficult to come out after the severe drubbing they got in the Delhi elections and they have to keep their tail coiled till they taste victory in another state or till Kejriwal restarts his tamasha on the roads of Delhi .