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GDP growth is not the true indicator people’s well being
Gujarat activists release manifesto
CV News/ Tuesday, April 09, 2019 Fifty-odd Gujarat-based academics and social activists, many of them well-known Sarvodayists who had played a major role in the fight against Indira Gandhi-imposed Emergency, have released a people's manifesto at a gathering in Gujarat Vidypeeth, the university founded by Maha...
Election Commission suffering from worst-ever “credibility crisi...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019 Counterview Desk
In an open letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, a group of ex-bureaucrats have lamented ‘weak-kneed’ responses of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Citing various violations of the model code of conduct, and pointing towards how ECI has taken little act...
BJP manifesto follows Savarkar’s two-nation theory, ignores mino...
CV News/ Monday, April 08, 2019 Sharply criticising the BJP manifesto, which it has sought to call Sankalp Patra (pledge document), the Gujarat-based civil rights organization, Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), has said that it has totally ignored the minorities, who form about 20% of India's population. Worse, it said, it is a document tha...
Differently abled 16,375 voters are real champions of democracy
60-year-old Premdas Prajapati, a prgana chakshu (blind) since very early infant age, is a champion of democracy in real sense with his deeper understanding to cast his vote to participate in the festival of democracy (elections) for the 17 th Lok Sabha to be held in Gujarat on April 23.
“Though I am blind, still, I have deeper understanding to val...
Reprieve for Ahmed Patel,tough battle for Congress as new face Sherkha...
By Abdul hafiz lakhani Ahmedabad The Congress on Thursday announced the names of two candidates for Lok Sabha polls in Gujarat, taking the total number of seats on which it has declared its candidates to 357. . The party has fielded Sher Khan Abdul Shakur Pathan from Bharuch Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat, putting to rest all speculation abou...
The average annual self-income of 479 sitting MPs is Rs.30.29 Lakhs
Andhra Pradesh’s 19 MPs analysed have the highest average annual self-income of Rs. 105.9 Lakhs, followed by Odisha’s 15 MPs analysed with average annual self-income of Rs. 68.8 Lakhs. 2 MPs analysed of Goa have the lowest average annual self-income of Rs. 5.2 Lakhs, followed by 33 MPs analysed of Tamil Nadu with average annual self-income of Rs...
20% MPs have declared business as their profession
Out of 479 MPs analysed, 5(1%) MPs have not given their profession in their affidavit.
ADR has categorised the professions of the MPs in 15 categories such as Business, doctor, Lawyer, farmer, including more than one profession categories such as Farming and business, Agriculture and services etc.
98(20%) out of 479 MPs have declared business as ...
Amit Shah’s choice for Gandhinagar: Will ex-CM Anandiben Patel &...
Sunday, March 31, 2019 By RK Misra*
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Amit Shah as a replacement for BJP veteran LK Advani from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency for the 2019 general elections, it was more to recreate the Atal-Advani visual imagery in governance than anything else.
Modi is a great one for symbolisms as image buildin...
21 assembly seats in Ahmedabad 719 centenarian voters
By Himanshu Upadhyay Ahmedabad, March 28, 2019: With age their bodies have become fragile but their mind and spirit are still as strong as ‘Vajra’ to urge them to participate in the greatest festival of democracy called ‘Election’ as over 700 centenarian voters from Ahmedabad city and district are eager to cast their votes in the forthcoming...
All India Survey on Governance Issues and Voting Behaviour 2018
25th March 2019 The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) commissioned perhaps the largest ever Voter Survey in any country. The survey was conducted between October 2018 and December 2018, prior to the General Elections to the Lok Sabha 2019. It covered 534 Lok Sabha constituencies with 2,73,487 voters participating in this exercise spread a...
Amit Shah’s bio data for Loksabha election
Born on 22 October 1964, Amit Shah represents the emerging New India in
every sense of the term. Leading the Party from the front for the last ve years
has been remarkably successful in expanding BJP's organisational foot print,
securing one electoral victory after the other in State assembly elections.
During his tenure, Party has become the ...
Congress would win just 9 of 26 Lok Sabha seats
Gujarat Assembly segment-wise analysis
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat ahead of state assembly polls in 2017
By Rajiv Shah
Even as the Congress plans its first working committee meet in Gujarat on February 28 after an almost 58 year gap, there is reason to wonder what is in store for India’s grand old party in a state which...
Give reservation to Dalit Muslims, Christians: Parties told
Sunday, March 24, 2019 By Our Representative
The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), a Gujarat-based civil rights organization, has come up with a 14-point demands list for inclusion into political parties’ election manifestos for the 2019 polls. To be sent to political parties and their candidates shortly, these demands seek obligatory form...
1996 saw maximum number of 577 candidates, but lowest 35.92% of voting...
Ever since Gujarat was bifurcated from the bilingual state of Bombay in 1960, General Election to the Lok Sabha began in the state in 1962 for 22 seats, which was increased in 1967 to 24 and in 1977 to 26.
The elections to the 17 th Lok Sabha will now be held in Gujarat in single phase on April 23, 2019 at 51,709 booths.
As per the website of the...
Gujarat govt “not transparent” in appointing information c...
CV News/ Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Top Right to Information (RTI) activist Anjali Bharadwaj has accused the Gujarat government of failing to be transparent in the appointment of information commissioners, saying, despite clearcut Supreme Court order to fill up vacancies within a month transparently, things remain extremely secretive and nobody kno...