So whats the latest on the Indian state elections? Could some Indian guppies be kind enough to explain whats going on, who’s winninga nd losing, interesting races and who’s careers are at stake.
p.s: Post some links to sites about the elections as well
Rajastan - BJP looks set to win
Madhya pradesh BJP looks set to win. Digvijay Singh could be thrashed and after two terms in power, he may be out of the limelite. Uma Bharati could be the CM.
Chattisgarh, Congress and BJP seem to be deadlocked.
Delhi Congress seems to be winning, and looks like Khurana will have to retire.
This is based on exit polls.
No personal opinion as I think all of them are useless....
Stay tuned....
Thanks for the info TT, Delhi Congress, is Delhi a separate state??
Sonia’s party smells victory in key Indian state polls
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_2-12-2003_pg7_1
NEW DELHI: India’s main political foes claimed they were heading for victory as millions voted Monday in key state assembly elections seen as a dress rehearsal for the 2004 general polls.
“We are expecting good results,” the main opposition Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said as people voted in numbers in the states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi, which are currently ruled by her party.
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made similar claims, as the police reported sporadic attacks on polling stations by Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh.
“BJP is very confident of winning in all the four states because these areas have suffered by the misrule of the Congress,” party spokesman Prakash Javadekar told AFP. If anything, a defeat in these elections, where it’s (solely) a BJP versus Congress fight, will have an adverse moral impact on Vajpayee’s performance at the federal level,” said political analyst Mahesh Rangarajan.
I heard people are saying 'yes' to kaangress but 'no' to spegatti...oops Soniaji. She cant be PM.
I don't really get the antipathy many Indians seem to have for Sonia Gandhi? She has lived in India for a big part of her life, and has revived the Congress when it was near ruins..why the dislike?
^ Zakk, would you like a foreigner (no matter how long she lived in Pakistan) to become PM of Pakistan?
Sonia had an Italian passport until she stepped into politics.
She can speak only tooti frooti hindi
She does not really understand politics and therefore she relies on the people surrounding her to tell her what's going on
There are far better people than her to govern the country
There is nothing to dislike about her, but there is nothing much to like also. Vajpayee is better. Or Sharad Pawar. The best is someone like Chandrababu Naidu who has done wonders for Andhra Pradesh and Hyderabad.
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Well she obviously doesn't consider herself a foreigner any more so isn't that a bit unfair to hold her ethnic background against her? Didn't some Indian run for state in America recently?
^Let me know when a Naturalized Immigrant becomes eligible to run for presidency in US. :)
Sonia is already an elected Member of Parliament and may become PM If Congress wins in the Parliamentry elections next year.
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^ Zakk, would you like a foreigner (no matter how long she lived in Pakistan) to become PM of Pakistan?
Sonia had an Italian passport until she stepped into politics.
She can speak only tooti frooti hindi
She does not really understand politics and therefore she relies on the people surrounding her to tell her what's going on
There are far better people than her to govern the country
There is nothing to dislike about her, but there is nothing much to like also. Vajpayee is better. Or Sharad Pawar. The best is someone like Chandrababu Naidu who has done wonders for Andhra Pradesh and Hyderabad.
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Whatever may be your personal opinion bvut fact remains that consitution allows her to be PM if elected.So there is no point crying like BJP's spokesman.
Talking of vajpayee...That guy is like Deadman walking.. It would be great is his speech writers spent more time coorecting his speech before he opens his mouth rather than after he delivers his speech.He is confused guy.Sharad Pawar is the most opportunist guy in Indian politics.He has no ethics.
Coming back to Naidu ,I wish IT could feed bread to poors also.Just getting investment in IT doesnt make him great leader.Andhrapardesh's farmers are in bad shape.Wait till 2004 when he will be kicked out of Andhraperadesh.
Alas Scindia,Rajeev and Pilot are dead. :(
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Alas Scindia,Rajeev and Pilot are dead. :(
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Food and Beverage, are you into necrophilia?
Pilot!?!
He meant Sanjay. thanks for sharing.
I believe the US is unique with regard to the naturalised status as a requirement. It seems like Sonia will end up being PM in a coalition come next election. But if she pulls out from the leadership race, who might get it ..from the Congress, and what's happened to her chidlren, wasn't Priyanka elected?
Just another couple of questions:
1) Which party rules the states (Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh)?
2) Nationally how many states presently are with the NDA, how many with the Congress and how many with independants? and what is the total number of states?
3) Whatever happened to Sharad Pawar? Does his breakaway party still hold seats?
Abey - He mean Rajesh Pilot who died in car crash of something. Sanjay died in Stone age. 
Zakk
BJP & Its allies are ruling in Orrissa, Gujrat, Goa, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab
States like Bihar, UP, West Bengal, Tripura, Tamilnadu, Assam, Haryana etc are ruled by either regional parties or parties which do not have alliance with either of the two (BJP & Congress)
For more information - you can visit http://goidirectory.nic.in/stateut.htm
Yarr I can;t keep with the Hindians. So many of them...especially the gandhis, first they fked up the whole country then they had like 100000 babies.
//BJP & Its allies are ruling in Orrissa, Gujrat, Goa, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab//
A small error
Congress is ruling in Punjab.
BJP heads for big win in MP, Rajasthan
this is the latest position in the state polls that went to election recently.
It’s a saffron sweep in Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh on Thursday afternoon seemed headed for a saffron sweep with the Bharatiya Janata Party winning 25 seats and leading in 127 in the elections to the 230-member state legislative assembly.
The Congress, which had 124 seats in the last assembly, had won seven seats and was ahead in 31 when this report was filed.
Here are two sites for Assembly elections 2003 results.
http://164.100.24.69/
BJP wave sweeps out Cong in Hindi heartland
BJP wave sweeps out Cong in Hindi heartland
Thursday, 04 December , 2003, 21:12
Full Coverage: State Polls 2003
New Delhi: A saffron wave swept through the Hindi heartland dislodging Congress from power in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhatisgarh giving landslide majority to BJP which rode the crest of an anti-incumbency wave that could not not dent Congress in Delhi.
Congress stormed back to power in the national capital with two-thirds majority but with a reduced tally of 47 against 52 gained in 1998 in the 70-member house.
Discuss: BJP’s performance in state polls a people’s stamp of approval for the NDA Govt at the Centre
Refusing to be tempted by rushing in for a snap Lok Sabha poll in the face of BJPs resounding victory, Prime Minsiter Atal Bihari Vajpayee said there still was one year left for general elections. He said the outcome was unexpected as the party expected a 2-2 result.
Knocking down the 10-year old Digvijay Singh government in Madhya Pradesh, BJP notched two-thirds majority worsting several senior ministers and Speaker Srinivas Tiwari on the plank of power crisis and bad roads in the Congress regime.
Sanyasin turned politician and BJP’s Chief Minsterial candidate Uma Bharti romped home in Badamalera while her borther Swami Prasad Lodh lost from Picchore. On the other hand Singh’s margin of victory fell drastically from last elections in his traditional Rahogarh constituency.
In a House of 230, BJP has so far bagged 166 seats, the Congress 38 and others 17. In the outgoing assembly BJP had 72 and Congress 124.
With BJP’s victory Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan will have first women chief ministers Uma Bharti and Vasundhara Raje respectively. Raje won Jalrapatan seat defeating her Congress rival Rama Pilot, wife of late Rajesh pilot by a margin of 27,000 votes.
With results of all 200 seats declared in Rajasthan BJP won 119, compared to 55 in the last elections, and Congress which had 153 seats could manage just 57 while others bagged 24.
The saffron sweep was so comprehensive in Rajasthan that it brought in its way the biggest for the party in Rajasthan which had the highest tally of 95 in 1993 under Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.
Many Congress stalwarts including two Deputy Chief Ministers-- Kamla Beniwal and Banwarilal Bhairwa-- besides Home Minster Ghulab Singh Shakhtawat fell by the way side.
Chief Minster Ashok Ghelot was elected by a huge margin of 19,000 votes in Sardarpura.
In the firstever elections in Chhattishgarh, BJP secured absolute majority by bagging 48 seats in the 90-member House while Congress got 37, BSP two and NCP one. BJP had 22 seats in the outgoing House and Congress 64.
The cash-on-camera scam involving former Union Minister Dilip Singh Judeo failed to have made any major impact. The BJP performed exceedingly well in the tribal belt where Judeo had campaigned against conversion for long.
Chief Minsiter Ajit Jogi himself won by a margin of over 54,000 votes defeating leader of the opposition Nand Kumar Sai from Marwahi. However, several of his ministerial colleagues fell by the way side.
Playing the development card to the hilt, Congress retained power in Delhi by securing two-thirds majority by bagging 47 seats in the 70-member house, five less than its tally of 52 in 1998. BJP bagged 20 seats, six more than in the last elections.
The Congress faced a humiliating defeat of its Finance Minster Mahender Singh Saathi and Deuty Speaker Kiran Choudhary.
The biggest joke in this election was, Congress manifestos in states like MP and Rajasthan was more saffron than BJP....
no wonder they got kicked out....
btw. NCP with nonbjp, noncongress votes, also did petty well.