Modi Hints at Key-Position for Arun Jaitley if NDA Government Comes to Power

Amritsar: Hinting at a possible key position for Arun Jaitley in the government, should the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) come to power, Mr Narendra Modi said that the senior BJP leader will be an asset not only to the Centre, but also to the Akali Dal-led government in Punjab.

"Arun Jaitley will be of great help to our government in New Delhi. If he (Jaitley) comes, it will benefit the Badal government," the BJP prime ministerial candidate said while addressing his fifth rally in Punjab on Friday.

He also told the crowd that they could expect as much, if not more from Mr Jaitley as they do from him. Modi's remark comes in the wake of speculation that Mr Jaitley is the frontrunner for the Finance Minister's post should the NDA comes to power at the Centre in May.

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had recently said during a campaign that the people of Amritsar would be voting for a possible Deputy Prime Minister in Mr Arun Jaitley.

Continuing with praise for Arun Jaitley, Mr Modi said that he had been representing Gujarat in the Parliament for many years and his work was an example of how much a Member of Parliament can contribute to the welfare of an area. Mr Jaitley contesting the elections from Punjab is a loss for Gujarat, as a person with his level of capabilities is rare to find, he said.

Claiming that the Congress' defeat in phases of voting this far is certain, Mr Modi said that the foundation stone of an NDA government at the centre has already been laid.

"The Akalis and the BJP are going to form a government in Delhi," Mr Modi said. Seeking to connect with his audience, Mr Modi said people of Punjab and Gujarat work for progress wherever they go.

Mr Jaitley is locked in an intense contest with former Punjab Chief Minister - Captain Amarinder Singh of the Congress Party.

Source: NDTV

BJP Hits Out at Cong. for Sneaking in Quota through Sub-Manifesto

NEW DELHI: A heated war of words erupted over Congress's "sub manifesto" promising to work towards a 4.5% quota for "backward" Muslims in OBC reservations with BJP slamming the proposal as a "desperate" bid to garner votes and Congress saying it has a right to consider the demand.

BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad termed the proposal as "the most corrupt example of communalism" and said, "There is no provision of a separate quota on religious basis in the OBC category. A matter is pending in the court in this regard, but Congress has issued a supplementary manifesto."

Congress's new documents, posted under the manifesto link on the party's website, were reported in Friday's edition of the TOI. Congress sources said the documents were framed before the polls began and is not a "mid poll" move.

BSP leader Mayawati too pitched in, saying promise of a sub-quota for Muslims is an attempt to pull wool over the eyes of minorities and claimed a similar provision was provided during her stint as UP CM in 1995.

Telecom minister Kapil Sibal defended Congress against the charge of "appeasement" and said the party has not come out with a sub-manifesto. But he accepted that Congress is committed to move forward on the quota proposal as well as issues like extending scheduled caste status to all "dalit minorities" irrespective of religious affiliation.

"These are suggestions for consideration, when the government comes to power. When we are open to it, we have a right to consider it as and when the Supreme Court decides it. This is the best possible way. There is nothing wrong with that ... There is no appeasement ... We must respect the sentiments of the public," Sibal said.

Both the proposed 4.5% sub quota for Muslims in the OBC list as well as the issue of extension of dalit status to Muslims and Christians are before the apex court and any government will have to wait for the outcome. But the Congress document promises to pursue it in court and look for a way forward on these issues.

Congress has released documents detailing plans for minorities, dalits, women, youth in its "Suggested Policies and Programmes for Congress government (2014-19)" and though the party's reactions indicated some discomfort over the charge of playing to the minority vote, there was no distancing from the suggestions.

"These are only suggestions made in the process of public consultation. We have put it before people. When Congress comes to power, we will take it forward. These are suggested policies and programmes, which have come up at the open manifesto consultation process," said Sibal.

Prasad attacked the reference to extending dalit status to "dalit Christians and Muslims", saying the proposal would apply to Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha seats. He said BJP is opposed to relaxing the religion bar — currently only Hindus and neo-Buddhists can claim dalit status — but demanded SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati should also clarify their stand on the issue because there was a supreme court — mandated ceiling on reservations, capping them at 50%.

Source: TOI

Narendra Modi Draws Huge Crowds as Election Campaign Moves to Varanasi

Indian election frontrunner Narendra Modi said he was overwhelmed on Thursday by a huge show of support in Varanasi as the Hindu nationalist leader entered the contest to become the holy city's member of parliament.

The streets of the ancient city on the banks of the river Ganges were flooded with people keen to greet or at least glimpse the rightwing Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader as he came to file his nomination papers.

"I feel overwhelmed by the love the people of Kashi (the ancient name of Varanasi) have shown me and I bow to this land and its traditions," said the 63-year-old at the nomination centre.

"It feels like Mother Ganga has called me here. The way a son goes back to his mother's lap, that's how I feel today."

India's multiphase general election began on 7 April but does not wrap up until 12 May when Varanasi and a host of other constituencies in the state of Uttar Pradesh go to the polls. The contest in Varanasi is the most keenly watched of the election as Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the fledgling anti-corruption Aam Aadmi (Common Man) party, is also standing.

Modi has largely steered clear of advancing his party's Hindu nationalist agenda on the campaign trail, presenting himself as an economic reformer and sound administrator. But analysts say his decision to run for the sacred city of Varanasi is an effective way of burnishing the Hindu credentials of the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat.

He remains a deeply controversial figure for many Indians after more than 1,000 people – mainly Muslims – died during riots in Gujarat in 2002, shortly after he came to power. Dressed all in white, he was flanked by his top aide, Amit Shah, who was briefly banned from campaigning over inflammatory comments he made this month in an area hit by anti-Muslim riots last year.

The streets were a sea of saffron, the BJP's colour, which is associated with Hinduism, with the mainly male crowd decked out in BJP caps or carrying party flags. "This [Modi] wave has been turned into a tsunami by Modi's supporters and this wave will wipe out [the BJP's rivals in Uttar Pradesh]," Shah told reporters.

Polls show the BJP and its allies are likely to oust the ruling Congress party from power when results are announced on 16 May, but will likely fall short of an outright majority.

Analysts say Modi is likely to win comfortably in Varanasi despite the competition from Kejriwal. He is also running for a constituency in Gujarat but he is not expected to take up that seat if he wins both.

Source: TheGuardian.com

Lok Sabha Elections 2014: BJP Looks for More Than 20 Seats in Karnataka

Banking on the "Narendra Modi wave" for a turnaround in its fortunes, BJP's Karnataka unit today expressed confidence of winning more than 20 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the April 17 elections in the state.

After analysing the situation and gathering information from local as well as state level leaders, "we are confident of winning more than 20 seats. There is no doubt about it", former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Jagadish Shettar told reporters here.

"The pro-BJP and pro-Modi wave in the state as at the national level, people's will to make Modi the next Prime Minister and comparatively good voter turnout make us feel confident about our performance," he added.

In the 2009 polls, BJP had got 19 seats, Congress six and JDS 3. But in the 2013 Assembly polls, BJP had lost power, yielding the space to Congress. BJP is now seeing good tidings in it favour.

Requesting the Election Commission to withdraw Code of Conduct, he said continuing it up to the date of counting, May 16, would hamper developmental works. He said he would write to the Commission in this regard.

Another former Chief Minister and BJP leader D V Sadananda Gowda said, "This election is indication of new change at national politics, (and) also indication of changes that will happen in state politics."

On the poll outcome in Bangalore South, where IT czar Nandan Nilekani is pitted against BJP's Ananth Kumar, former Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka said, "Hundred per cent Ananth Kumar will win. What has Nilekani done to Bangalore compared to Ananth Kumar. He has not planted a single tree nor laid a single road for the city."

Source: DNA

Lok Sabha Polls 2014: How BJP Planned Mission UP and Why it is Confident of Winning 50+ Seats

NEW DELHI | LUCKNOW: About halfway through the general election, BJP's key strategists in Uttar Pradesh are confident of a 50-plus seats performance in the crucial 80-seat Uttar Pradesh.

Party leaders who have worked on the UP strategy for months told ET, over the course of lengthy interactions, that contrary to pundits' criticism about wrong ticket distribution and faulty caste arithmetic, the election front-runner is privately satisfied that its plans are working.

"We're looking at 53 seats," a BJP leader said. "And our strategy has four broad strands." Plus, there's a post-poll plan — and BJP leaders are calling it 'panchayat to Parliament'.

BJP leaders who spoke to ET for this news report did so on the condition that they not be identified.

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BJP's 1998 performance — 58 seats in the 85-seat undivided UP — was the target set internally. In today's UP that meant 53 seats; five of the seats it won in 1998 are in Uttarakhand now. But against this target, said a BJP leader closely involved with poll decimation of party structure in UP.

This leader said when Amit Shah, close confidant of Narendra Modi, took charge six months ago, the contrast between Bihar, another crucial state, and UP could not have been more apparent.

In Bihar, BJP had been in government till it broke up with JD(U) and its poll performance had been respectable. In UP, another BJP strategist said, "There was no cadre... we haven't been in power for 17 years... forget about being in power, we weren't even in the contest."

And, this strategist said, Shah couldn't fall back on a strong state leadership either. "There was no Sushil Modi equivalent in UP," he said. "In UP, state leaders were 75-82 years of age. How would we have even attracted youth votes?" a close aide of Shah said. Plus, the aide pointed out, the existing leadership also lacked connect with workers.

So, Shah's priorities were set: get candidates of a quality that overcomes the handicap of weak state leadership and get the message on Modi to every corner of UP, especially remote corners where only BSP and SP have effective name recognition.

Source: EconomicTimes

Lok Sabha Polls 2014: Modi to File Nomination from Varanasi on April 24, says Amit Shah

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will file his nomination for the Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi constituency on April 24, his close aide Amit Shah said on Saturday.

While addressing a press conference, Shah further said that the nation is witnessing the Modi wave which will soon turn into a tsunami.

Clarifying his stand on the the controversial 'revenge remark', the BJP leader said that it was not his intention to break the model code of conduct and that a bowler sometimes delivers a no ball as well.

He further said that he respects the Election Commission (EC) and that if it sends anyone a notice then it is one's duty to respond to it. He added that the issue is over now and everyone should move on.

The BJP leader was recently banned from holding public meetings, processions or roadshows in Uttar Pradesh by the EC after the 'revenge remark'.

Shah also spoke on the furore caused by his statement that SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's government will be dismissed if Modi is elected as the prime minister of the country.

He said that the statement meant that BJP will not play a role in it and that the Samajwadi Party-led government in Uttar Pradesh will get fall on its own.

The BJP leader further said that his party will sweep majority of seats in Uttar Pradesh.

“In the first 2 phases of voting in UP, BJP is winning 18 out of total 21 seats,” he said.

He cited intelligence reports and accused Congress candidate from Varanasi, Ajay Rai, of being involved in the trade of AK-47s and called for investigations.

Source: ZEENews

Bihar's 'Osama bin Laden' to Contest against Modi from Varanasi

PATNA: Meraj Khalid Noor, popularly known as Bihar's Osama bin Laden due to his uncanny resemblance to the late al-Qaida leader, on Friday announced he would contest the Lok Sabha poll against BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi.

"I have decided to contest polls against Modi from Varanasi," said Noor, who is president of Ram India, a newly floated political outfit.

"After much thought I decided to fight against Modi," Noor said.

Patna-based Noor was once the darling of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former chief minister Lalu Prasad and the Lok Janshakti Party's (LJP) Ram Vilas Paswan to woo Muslim voters. However, it is a different story now.

"I campaigned in the 2004 Lok Sabha polls for Paswan and in the 2005 assembly elections for Lalu," the businessman-turned-politician said.

He now complains that Lalu Prasad and Paswan "used me" to attract Muslim votes to their parties.

Noor is tall, well built and sports a long black beard. Like the now dead al- Qaida chief, he is always seen in white robes and a turban to match. The al-Qaida leader was gunned down by US commandos in his hideout in Pakistan in May 2011.

Noor admitted then it was his mere resemblance to the world's then most wanted man that was capitalized on as "I am neither a good speaker nor a leader with any support base".

In Patna and across Bihar, people don't know his real name. Everyone calls him bin Laden.

According to Salam Iraqi, one of his friends, Noor plunged into politics in 2004 when he sought ticket from Paswan's LJP to contest the assembly polls. His plea was turned down.

But Paswan asked Noor to campaign for his party and he would introduce him as "Osama bin Laden" at election rallies.

Noor switched over to the RJD in September 2005 and campaigned for Lalu Prasad.

He was so much in demand that Paswan and Lalu Prasad would invariably find a seat for him on their campaign helicopters, even if it meant dropping a senior party leader.

Noor is not a hardliner.

He is the grandson of Kazi Muzahidul Islam, former president of the Muslim Personal Law Board. His father, Noor Ahmad, was a close associate of veteran socialist leader George Fernandes.

Such was Noor's image that Narendra Modi once made a mention about him.

Late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan accused Lalu Prasad and Paswan in 2005 of glorifying "the most wanted terrorist in the world" by asking Noor to campaign for them.

Source: TOI

Lok Sabha Elections: Chiranjeevi's Brother Pawan Kalyan Campaigns for BJP

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh superstar Chiranjeevi's brother Pawan Kalyan has up his ante (politically) against his brother, no doubt. But the fact that the younger brother is supporting BJP and campaigning for it has not gone down well with the senior star.

Recently, Pawan Kalyan has floated his own outfit and is campaigning against Congress leader and Union Minister Chiranjeevi. In fact, both have been campaigning in the border districts of Karnataka, which include Kolar, Raichur and Gulbarga. This area has huge numbers of Kapu settlers.

Merely 24 hours after Chiranjeevi visited Chikballabpur (from where Union minister Veerappa Moily is contesting from), Pawan visited the same place. Pawan further hailed Modi saying he who could do away with discrimination. Saying that Modi is the solution for a developing India, Pawan Kalyan said,"country will be saved from terrorism, corruption and scams of Congress".

While Pawan hailed Narendra Modi as the saviour of the country, Chiranjeevi projected himself as the soldier of Congress and said that whoever opposed the party, including his brother, was his enemy. This border area has a huge fan following of both the brothers. The battle between the brothers would now shift to Seemandhra where some of Chiranjeevi's supporters have got Congress tickets.

Source: OneIndia

TV-Time: 429 Minutes to Kejriwal, 365 to Modi, 72 to Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: AAP may not be much in the reckoning for post-poll tally of Lok Sabha seats as compared to the biggies like BJP and Congress, but its leader Arvind Kejriwal has dominated TV news space during prime time, according to a survey of select channels conducted by an agency.

BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi occupied the second slot while Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi came a distant third.

The survey, which took into account prime time coverage (8-10pm), shows the AAP leader getting 429 minutes (28.2%) as compared to 365 minutes (24%) by Modi and Rahul Gandhi's 72 minutes (4.8%).

These conclusions are part of analysis of TV news election coverage, done by CMS Media Lab for the March 1-15 period, on three Hindi and two English channels- Aaj Tak, ABP News, Zee News, NDTV 24x7 and CNN IBN.

Though the findings demolished the popular perception that Modi might be getting more space on TV news, the survey found that the coverage of Kejriwal was "more negative than Modi" during the period of analysis.

Among regional leaders, RJD chief Lalu Prasad got the highest percentage of time (3% of the total coverage). Other leaders like Raj Thackery, Nitish Kumar, Mamata Banerjee, Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and UP CM Akhilesh Yadav got between coverage space of 1.5%-2%.

Party-wise, it is the BJP which occupied the top position followed by AAP and Congress. Among regional parties, only Samajwadi Party got approximately 5% of the coverage time. The MNS and Shiv Sena got equal coverage by acquiring more than 2% while rest of the regional parties including RJD, TMC, BSP and DMK received less than 2% of the total coverage time given to the political parties.

Interestingly, it is Hindutva and not corruption or governance which got higher position in the list of issues which grabbed coverage during prime time TV news.

In this category, issues around 'personality' got top slot followed by Hindutva, party, development, corruption, public policy and governance.

CMS Media Lab claimed that the findings are based on the detailed content analysis of election coverage on the five TV news channels.

Source: TOI

NDTV-Opinion-Poll: BJP likely to Sweep Delhi Lok Sabha Elections, No Encore for AAP

Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party or AAP seems to have lost steam in the last lap of the gigantic general election now being held. NDTV's latest opinion poll shows the BJP surging ahead in Delhi and likely to win six of the national capital's seven Lok Sabha seat.

The AAP could have to settle for only one seat and the Congress is expected to draw a blank. In 2009, the Congress had won all seven seats.

Delhi voted on April 10.

Arvind Kejriwal, the hero of Delhi's Assembly elections held in December last year, had quit as chief minister in February after only 49 days in the post over his inability to push through his pet Jan Lokpal Bill through the Assembly. His rivals accuse him of abdicating to pursue a national agenda.

Last week Mr Kejriwal admitted that he may have mistimed the decision and that he should have explained he rationale behind his resignation to the people who had given him 28 seats in his very first election, enough for him to form government with the support of the Congress.

For the BJP, projected as Delhi's big winner, it will be a much-awaited comeback after the washout in the last Lok Sabha election and the heartbreak of falling just short of a majority in the Delhi Assembly elections.

Source: NDTV.com

NDTV-Opinion-Poll: NDA Set to Get Clear Majority with 275 Seats

An opinion poll tonight projected BJP-led NDA securing majority with 275 out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats in the elections.

The survey shows Congress-led UPA ending up with just 111 seats and others bagging 157.

According to the survey conducted by Hansa Research for NDTV, BJP would win 226 seats and Congress would be reduced to 92 seats in the 16th Lok Sabha.

The survey predicted BJP would garner 34.5 per cent of the votes while Congress 25.6 per cent.

In Uttar Pradesh, BJP is set for its best performance, winning more than 50 of the state's 80 parliamentary seats, according to the survey.

BJP gets 51 seats in the key state, ten more than the last election in 2009.

The latest opinion poll has prediced Congress' scores down to five in UP. It had won 21 in 2009.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party gets 14 as against 23 it won in 2009.

Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party also slides to 10, almost reduced to half from the last Lok Sabha.

In Rajasthan also, BJP is projected to get 21 of the state's 25 parliamentary seats and Congress three. In the last election in 2009, it had won 20 seats.

The opinion poll has predicted Congress is gaining in Karnataka where the party is expected to win 14 of the state's Lok Sabha 28 seats, eight more than its 2009 tally. BJP would get 12 seats as against 19 seats last time.

H D Deve Gowda's Janata Dal (Secular) is likely to win two seats. It had won three in the general election held five years ago.

The forecast has given a surprise result in Odisha giving 7 seats to BJP out of the 21 Lok Sabha seats replacing Congress as the main opposition party in the state. BJP had drawn a blank in the 2009 general election in the state.

Congress, which had bagged 6 seats in Odisha in the last elections, will manage only a single seat this time, according to the opinion poll.

In Punjab, SAD would get 7 and Congress 6, says the survey.

BJP and its allies are expected to win 24 of Bihar's 40 seats and the state's ruling CM Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United), which had won 20 seats in 2009, is likely to see its tally reduced to four.

Lalu Yadav's RJD, which is contesting the polls in alliance with Congress, is likely to win 12 seats, a gain of six seats. RJD had won four seats and Congress two in the last elections.

In Gujarat, BJP is set to get 22 seats as against 15 last time and Congress only 4 against 11 in 2009.

Source: Business Standard

NDTV-Opinion-Poll: Massive Gains for BJP-Shiv Sena Alliance in Maharashtra

They have ruled Maharashtra for the last 15 years, but the Congress-NCP combine is headed for a steep nose-dive in the general elections, the NDTV's latest opinion poll has confirmed.

The two partners are likely to be stopped at only nine seats by the BJP-led NDA juggernaut which is expected to roll to a whopping 37 seats in the state.

The BJP has a five-party alliance in Maharashtra, including its oldest ally the Shiv Sena, led by Uddhav Thackeray. His cousin and rival Raj Thackeray is expected to win only one seat.

Maharashtra has for many years seen a direct contest between the two big alliances and so the BJP-Sena make all their gains at the cost of the Congress-NCP, which had won 25 seats in 2009.

For the BJP-Sena, it's a gain of 17 seats, a big contribution to its overall kitty as it attempts to cross the 272 majority mark in the Lok Sabha.

Source: NDTV.com

NDTV-Opinion-Poll:Break with BJP to Cost Nitish Kumar Big in Bihar

NDTV's opinion poll for Bihar shows that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is set to pay a huge price for his decision to break up with the BJP.

The BJP and its allies are expected to win 24 of the state's 40 seats, a gain of 12 since the last election in 2009. Mr Kumar's Janata Dal United, which had won 20 seats in 2009, is likely to see its tally crash to four, a steep drop by 16 seats.

Mr Kumar had ended his 17-year alliance with the BJP last summer over its decision to project Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate.

Lalu Yadav's RJD, which is contesting the polls in alliance with the Congress, is likely to win 12 seats, a gain of six seats. The two parties had contested separately in 2009 after failing to forge a seat sharing pact. The RJD had won four seats and the Congress, two.

Source: NDTV.com

NDTV-Opinion-Poll: Uttar Pradesh's Huge Benefit for BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections

In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is set for an A+ performance, winning more than 50 of the state's 80 parliamentary seats, according to NDTV's latest opinion poll.

The party gets 51 seats, that's a whopping gain of 41 seats from the last election in 2009. Its prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, and party president Rajnath Singh are running from UP.

The Congress scores five, down 21 from 2009.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party gets 14; it won 23 in 2009.

Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party also slides, losing 10 of the 20 seats it currently holds.

Source: NDTV.com

Lok Sabha Polls: Allies Give BJP Hope in Seemandhra, TN, Kerala, Karnataka

BANGALORE: On Sunday, when BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addressed an election rally at Haveri in Karnataka, that was his 13th in the southern state in the past four months.

The 63-year-old Gujarat chief minister is expected to address three more rallies before the state goes to polls on April 17, and this shows the party's focus on turning around its fortunes in a state where it badly lost assembly elections less than a year ago. "We were sulking after we lost power in the assembly elections, but after Modi's name was announced as the party's candidate for the PM post, our party came back to life in the State," says former Law Minister S Suresh Kumar.

Until the BJP announced its PM candidate, its leaders in Karnataka were licking their wounds from the humiliating defeat in the assembly polls - from being the ruling party, it ended up third by vote share. Modi, however, succeeded in bringing the likes of BS Yeddyurappa, the first BJP chief minister in the south, and B Sriramulu back into the party fold. Many party men buried their hatchet, at least temporarily, and are putting up a show of unity to deliver the highest possible number of seats from Karnataka. For instance, in April second week, BJP leader Ananth Kumar travelled to Shimoga to campaign for Yeddyurappa with whom he shares an uneasy relationship.

Karnataka's leaders sound upbeat pointing to the poll arithmetic. Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Party and Sriramulu's BSR Congress ate away a good chunk of BJP votes in last year's assembly polls. While Yeddyurappa's outfit polled 9.8% of votes, Sriramulu got 2.7%. If these numbers are added up, the Congress vote share of 36.6% still looks decent but not spectacular.


The Congress benefited more from BJP's internal troubles. "We are strong in Karnataka. We should be able to win between 16 and 21 seats," says Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parikkar, who is also a member of BJP's national election campaign committee. In the 2009 polls, the BJP won 19 of Karnataka's 28 seats, which dropped to 18 after the party lost Chikmagalur-Udupi seat in the by-polls.

Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily, a senior Congress leader from Karnataka, however, sounds skeptical of the BJP's prospects. "In Karnataka, the BJP will not get more than three seats," he insists, pointing to the declining acceptance of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance among political parties. "During the Vajpayee period, the NDA had 23 alliance partners. Today they have just two-three allies."

UP, Bihar, MP, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat are the party's high-stake states, but down south, Karnataka is its biggest hope. Its presence in Tamil Nadu is negligible - it took a puny 2.2% vote share in the 2011 assembly polls. It is long since the ruling AIADMK and the DMK have deserted it, though Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa calls Modi a "personal friend". But ahead of the polls, the party has been able to sew up a string of alliances - with actor 'Captain' Vijayakanth's DMDK, Vaiko's MDMK, Dr S Ramadoss' PMK, and the Kongunadu Party. In the 2011 assembly polls, Vijayakanth's fledgling outfit cornered 7.88% vote, while PMK got 5.23%.

Both wield influence in select pockets in northern Tamil Nadu, but it is unclear if voters of one party will back the candidate of the other just because they are all part of the NDA. Nevertheless, analysts think the initiative will not go in vain, and might yield a low single digit seats for the NDA. "In Tamil Nadu, this rainbow coalition will have its own strength in some pockets," says Parikkar. In 1999, the saffron party had puzzled poll pundits by winning four seats out of the six seats it contested under a Vajpayee wave, and optimists predict a repeat of that performance under Modi.

Though AP has never been a stronghold, the BJP is expected to do relatively better in the 25-seat Seemandhra region compared with the 17-seat Telangana, thanks to its alliance with the Telugu Desam Party. "Without this alliance, the BJP party has zero chances of winning seats on its own. In Seemandhra, the fight is going to be between the YSR Congress and the TDP-BJP combine and some of the anti-Congress votes could translate into a few seats for BJP," says Rajesh Chakrobarti, associate professor at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at Hyderabad's Indian School of Business.

"The situation is different in Telangana where the main fight is expected between the TRS and the Congress... the BJP may not gain much here," he adds. In the undivided AP's 42 LS seats, BJP is contesting from 13 and the TDP 29. Assembly polls are also being held simultaneously.

"Thanks to a strong Modi wave, we hope the TDP-BJP combine to form the government in Seemandhra and win 15 out of 25 LS seats," says Kambampati Haribabu, the party's president in AP.

BJP Attempts to Break Kerala Jinx

Kerala has remained beyond BJP's reach. The BJP has never been able to get a toehold in the state where politics remains polarised between the two major coalitions - the Congress-led United Democratic Front and the Left Democratic Front. The party has never been able to win a seat either in the state assembly or for the Lok Sabha from Kerala. However, it is making an all out effort this time to win at least one of the state's 20 Lok Sabha seats.

"We expect our candidate O Rajagopal to win the Thiruvananthapuram seat," says V Muralidharan, BJP's state president. Rajagopal, a BJP veteran, was a minister of state for railways in the Vajpayee government, after becoming a Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh. In the state capital, he is locked in a three-cornered contest with Congress' Shashi Tharoor and CPI's Bennet Abraham. The BJP is also trying its best in Kasargod, Kerala's northern-most seat neighbouring Mangalore in Karnataka. When Modi toured Karnataka last week, he made it a point to address a rally in Kasargod, conscious of its potential for the party.

Source: Economic Times

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Lok Sabha polls 2014: BJP-Apna Dal Tie-Up may Prove Handy for Narendra Modi in Varanasi

VARANASI: BJP's tie-up with the "game spoiler" Apna Dal is being seen as an attempt to woo nearly two lakh Kurmi voters in this constituency, which is set for a high-voltage electoral battle due to BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's presence in the fray.

The pre-poll alliance seems to be aimed at making the contest easy for Modi as the support by the Kurmis could prove to be a match-winner against his main rivals from Congress and Aam Aadmi Party in May 12 polls.

While Ajay Rai is the Congress candidate from this temple town, AAP has fielded its supremo and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against Modi.

Apna Dal, tagged infamously as a "game spoiler" due to its potential to divert votes in lakhs against a candidate, also has a significant presence in two of the five assembly segments here Rohaniya and Sevapuri.

The electoral alliance materialised only in the last week of March and Apna Dal, which resisted BJP's initial insistence on a merger, settled for two seats Pratapgarh and Mirzapur the latter being a constituency reserved for Scheduled Castes.

However, sources within BJP said that the long drawn-out efforts at the electoral tie-up had a lot to do with Varanasi, which has arguably become the most keenly-watched electoral battle across the country.

Anupriya Patel, Apna Dal's lone MLA and de facto leader, told PTI, "We will work hard not just for our own candidates but also to ensure the victory of Narendra Modi in Varanasi."

Anupriya, whose late father Sone Lal Patel had founded Apna Dal in the 1990s and evolved as the leader with maximum appeal among Kurmi voters of the state, said, "We can safely claim that our party will help in transferring no less than 1.5 lakh votes in favour of Modi."

Performance of various political parties in Varanasi in the 2012 assembly polls suggests that Modi would badly need this vote transfer if he is to win the seat with a margin commensurate with the hype around the contest.

Anupriya made her electoral debut from Rohaniya assembly seat in 2012, two years after her father died in a road accident, and won by securing over 30 per cent votes.

Incidentally, BJP finished fourth there, way behind BSP and SP, polling less than 10 per cent votes.

Another assembly segment where BJP put up a dismal show was Sevapuri, where Apna Dal did not win but managed to emerge runner-up with 20 per cent votes as against less than six per cent polled by the saffronBSE -4.62 % party.

Both these assembly segments have a strong presence of Kurmis. As a matter of fact, Sevapuri was won for the SP by Surendra Patel, who was promptly rewarded by the party leadership with a ministerial post in the Akhilesh Yadav government.

However, for BJP, it was the second occasion on which it suffered a drubbing in these two assembly segments. In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, party heavyweight Murli Manohar Joshi won by a modest margin of around 18,000 votes. Analysts say the primary reason behind his lacklustre victory was the party's dismal performance in Rohaniya and Sevapuri where BJP had stood fourth.

Significantly, in both these assembly segments, Apna Dal's tally was significantly higher than that of BJP even though it trailed BSP and SP. The electoral tie-up might ensure that the votes that might have otherwise gone to Apna Dal would shift towards BJP.

Anupriya dropped ample hints to the effect saying, "We will go to the people with the message that our tie-up with BJP is on account of the fact that Modi is an OBC leader and Apna Dal has always believed in the politics of social justice.

"Moreover, there is an obvious yearning for a change of regime and BJP being a big party would automatically be the most credible alternative. BJP under Modi's leadership is, therefore, the best bet."

Source: EconomicTimes

Kejriwal finally Admits it that Quitting Delhi Govt was a Mistake

Arvind Kejriwal has had a lot of explaining to do in this campaign.

As Firstpost's Sandip Roy had reported from the ground in Delhi, even at rallies for the Lok Sabha polls, when he spoke to party faithful, the AAP leader found himself explaining the party's exit from the Delhi government after 49 days. And now in an interview, the AAP leader has finally come out and admitted that his exit may have been ill-timed and damaging to his party's prospects.

Speaking to the Economic Times, Kejriwal admitted that while he still stood by his decision to quit over not being able to pass his 'Jan Lokpal Bill' in the Delhi Assembly, he should have taken more time to explain the rationale behind it to the people of the state.

"The suddenness of our decision and the communication gap with masses allowed BJP and Congress to spread falsehood about us and label us as escapists. This is a mistake we made and we'll be more careful in future," he told the newspaper.

The decision to quit, soon after a disastrous dharna against the Delhi police, and a shocking midnight raid on a private residence in Khirki extension was widely seen as a deal breaker for India's middle class who had shaken off their apathy to come out and vote for AAP.

But Kejriwal said he felt that even among the middle class, he was confident that the party's staunchest supporters would continue to vote for the party.

He said however, that the real 'deal breaker' for the new AAP naysayers was the fact that he actually the audacity to actually take on the BJP's prime ministerial candidate which had led them to turn away from him. But he's fine with that because he believes its a small number.

While every pre-poll survey has predicted that the BJP-led NDA alliance would win over 200 seats, Kejriwal puts the number at a much more modest 180 seats and said the party would wrest Varanasi from Modi and Amethi from Rahul Gandhi.

However, he's not very sure about how his own party will do.

By all estimates, Kejriwal's exit is expected to have significantly dented his party's chances in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, even weakening it in Delhi, which was the one state where the party was actually expected to do well.

This, added to the fact that the AAP leader then ran off to Varanasi to take on Narendra Modi without standing from Delhi, could have further damaged the party there.

As Firstpost editor R Jagannathan said, "It is entirely understandable that the Delhi voter is miffed with Kejriwal. After hoisting him on their shoulders, the man hasn’t spoken a word about what he plans to do for her in case he returns to power after the next assembly elections. After he quit, the assembly has been in suspended animation"

The Lokniti-IBN election tracker poll predicted a clear victory for the BJP in Delhi, even in seats where the AAP may have had a chance, despite the fact that many people were happy with the way the party had governed over 49 days. Others predict that the disgruntled AAP voters could cast their ballot in favour of the BJP since the anti-Congress wave is so strong in the current polls.

Kejriwal and the party may finally be coming around to the fact that they may have jumped the gun when it came to contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Unfortunately, all they can do now is hope that the damage isn't as bad as everyone else seems to think.

Source: FirstPost

BJP-Manifesto for 2014 Polls: What Narendra Modi Wants to Offer to the Youth of India

The BJP has been considered to be a party with grey-heads but this election; being well aware of the youth percentage of voters including 10-crore first time voters the party has tried its best to woo this section with an array of flashy promises. The youth is already connecting with Modi more than any other leader and so, he too has not let them down at least in his manifesto. BJP is claiming to achieve a near double digit growth percentage with the help of these youth. Giving them full credit for any development and praising them by branding them as the most productive asset of the country, the party has tried its best to gain the trust of the 50% bank.

Let’s have a look at what they have to offer for the youth of this nation:

Involving youth in decision making: Finally, the BJP is talking of youth participation in the decision-making process which is a good thing. The party of uncles has been criticized for not involving young leaders among the party in the process of any policy formulation and decision making but 2014 is an election where the youth is a decisive factor and keeping this factor in mind they are offering a full youth inclusive approach and making them an integral part of the development process.

Young leaders programme: This programme will focus on identifying young leaders in all the sectors and reward them for their contribution so that they work as role models for others. This is a good initiative to promote and motivate youth and create a competitive environment where everybody strives to be the best. A welcoming thought if it’s not just a mere promise. Promotion and motivation of youth and rewarding them for their remarkable contribution will help them evolve and give their fullest with utmost energy and enthusiasm.

National Youth Advisory Board: This kind of advisory board is very common in the manifestos of almost all parties. BJP too has included it in their agenda. This kind of advisory board can prove to be effective if there is a minimal gap between the planning and its execution rather than just adding another portfolio to the ministry.

Encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship: Modi’s favourite punchline in almost all his speeches to lure the youth. He claims to be successfully providing the youth a good environment for entrepreneurship in Gujarat. However, it would be interesting to see how he plans to implement it on a national level provided he gets the magic number. Innovation has been something less promoted for years and it has laid back the research work in our country to a great extent. We have heard a lot about innovations across the world till now but less about our own country.

Youth for Development: Although it’s a projected programme for involving youth in the overall development process it sounds much like a Modi slogan. It is indisputably agreeable that with more than 50% population the key to development in any ways are in the hands of the youth only and for any government to achieve the desired mark of development the procurement of youth will be mandatory.

Simplifying student’s loans: This is an important issue which can make the BJP a favourite among the youth. There have been a number of hurdles in the procedure of raising educational loans from the banks and there is a need of complete revival. The rates too have been a pain and addressing it would be a must for any government, if they are eying the future. Affordable loans will help those who dream to achieve a higher education, which otherwise get shattered due to complex bank procedures and dearer prices.

Source: India.com

Modi in Kerala: Land of Tourism Turned into a Nursery of Terrorism

Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Congress election manifesto was a paper of betrayal as the party did not take tough action against terrorism in contrary to its promise in manifestos of previous general elections.

Addressing a huge party rally in this municipal town at the northern end of Kerala, Modi said, “The country requires a strong government, not a weak, handicapped one. Congress has brought out a paper in the name of manifesto.

In 2004 and 2009, they promised an uncompromising fight against terrorism. But the party did not take strong action against terrorism. To what extent were you (Congress) serious and sincere to the promises given in the manifesto? In 2004 and 2009, your manifesto had promised to strengthen the defence forces, but do the security forces in the country have enough equipment?’’ Modi asked.

Taking on Defence Minister A K Antony, who is leading the Congress campaign in Kerala, Modi asked, “Antony do you know that 97 per cent of the weapons and planes with the Air Force were outdated? Antony should explain how the coastline of the country would be safe when submarines are lost in accidents and the naval chief himself quitting the office. What explanation can Antony give when the country has been incurring a huge loss from the naval tragedies?”

On Kerala, Modi said the land of tourism has turned into a nursery of terrorism. “Kerala is one of the 10 states with the highest incidents of violence against women. Of the ten such states, six are ruled by Congress and the rest by its allies,” he added.

Modi said the reason for the state’s rot was the friendly-electoral battle between the Congress-led United Democratic Front and CPI (M)-led Left Democratic Front. There is an unholy alliance between these two fronts, which mutually agree to cover up each one’s corruption and faults.

Source: IndianExpress

9-Phase Vote Schedule of 16th Lok Sabha Elections 2014 in India

Source: IndianExpress

Lok Sabha Elections 2014: BJP Clinches Tie-Up with TDP in Andhra Pradesh

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on 6 April 2014 announced the much expected pre-election alliance in Andhra Pradesh (AP) after a hard bargaining for weeks.

Election to both Lok Sabha and the State Assembly is to be held simultaneously in AP in two schedules - on 30 April in Telangana and on 7 May in Seemandhra. Post the poll, Telangana will be carved away on 2 June as a separate state, leaving the residual Seemandhra region as the Andhra Pradesh.

BJP has already got into a pre-election partnership in Tamil Nadu with a six-party group, which include Vijaykant-led DMDK, Vaiko-led MDMK, Anbumani Ramadoss-headed PMK, R Pachamuthu-led IJK and Eshwaran-led KMDK. BJP has considerable hold in Karnataka as BS Yeddyurappa had formed its south India's first government in the state in 2008. For BJP, the poll tie-up is seen as a boost to root itself further in south India.

As per the pre-poll tie-up agreement with TDP, BJP will contest five Lok Sabha seats and 15 Assembly seats in Seemandhra, which has 25 Lok Sabha and 175 Assembly constituencies. BJP will field its candidates in eight Lok Sabha seats and 47 Assembly seats in Telangana, which has 17 Lok Sabha and 119 Assembly constituencies.

TDP president Nara Chandrababu Naidu and BJP's spokesperson Javadekar, Treasurer Piyush Goel, Shiromani Akali Dal MP Naresh Gujral jointly said that the pre-election tie-up has been clinched by keeping in view of the nation's as well as Telangana and Seemandhra's welfare. Naidu called upon the electorate to root out Congress party in this general elections as it has patronized corruption in its regime.

Naresh Gujral is said to have mediated to fructify the alliance between BJP and TDP. Cadre of both BJP and TDP in some regions of AP had opposed the alliance and delayed the deal.

Naidu expressed confidence that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would win at least 300 seats in the Lok Sabha election to form a stable and efficient government at the Centre. Even the recent opinion polls have predicted majority seats for NDA. A pre-poll by NDTV has said that NDA may win 259 seats and CNN-IBN has even predicted more than 260 seats. A party or an alliance group should have 272 or more members in the 543-member strong Lok Sabha to form the next government.

Naidu said that to build a corruption-free India, there is a need to reform all sectors in the country. To fulfill this goal, TDP has got into an alliance with BJP, he added. Daggubati Purandeswari, a BJP leader who has joined the party from Congress recently, said the tie-up would help both parties in AP.

BJP-TDP state-level leaders also played a key role in realizing the pre-poll pact.

Javadekar described this alliance as historical. BJP national leaders - Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley also spoke to Chandrababu Naidu during the last 20 days in the alliance discussions, he added. Naresh Gujral said that a key role is awaiting for Chandrababu Naidu in NDA affairs.

Source: IBTimes

Modi-Storm Predicted for 2014 Lok Sabha Polls-BJP led NDA may Win 259 Seats-Just 13 Seats Behind to Cross Magical 272+ Mark

Source: NDTV

National Poll-Tracker: Modi-Powered NDA may Get 234-246 Seats

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is almost certain to form the next government according to CNN-IBN-CSDS-Lokniti-The Week national election tracker. The NDA is projected to get 234-246 Lok Sabha seats in the elections while the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is likely to bag just 111-123 according to the projections by Chennai Mathematical Institute Director Rajeeva Karandikar. The survey indicates that BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is propelling the NDA to power at the Centre.

When compared to 2009 Lok Sabha results, the NDA almost doubling its seats and the UPA is losing half of its seats. The worse thing is Congress may get less than 100 Lok Sabha seats for the first time in its history. According to election tracker the Congress may get 94-106 Lok Sabha seats on its own.

The BJP is likely to cross 200 seats mark for the first time in its history by bagging 206-218 Lok Sabha seats on its own. The lowest count for the Congress was 114 seats in 1999 and the highest for the BJP is 182 seats in 1998 and 1999 under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

According to election tracker the BJP is making huge gains in the Hindi belt states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Jharkhand and its Prime Ministerial nominee Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. The BJP is ahead of the AAP in Delhi which has 7 Lok Sabha seats.

It is in a close fight with the Congress in Karnataka and slightly ahead in Maharashtra. The BJP is not making any gains in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and other Northeastern states.

It may get a few seats in Telangana, which will be India's 29th state from June 2, 2014.

Congress:

The ruling Congress is staring at a huge defeat in most of the states. Some of them have been its strongholds for a long time. It is doing well in only two states - Karnataka and Kerala, where it is in power.

The Congress is likely to be decimated in Andhra Pradesh, which delivered the maximum number of seats for the party in both 2004 and 2009. Telangana's creation and YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's revolt seems to have ended the Congress free run in AP.

Even in Telangana with 17 seats, the Congress is not doing well. Pro-Telangana party the TRS is likely to do well here. The Congress is likely to be pushed to third place in Odisha. In Maharashtra, it is doing slightly better.

Mamata may Emerge Stronger:

The Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may emerge stronger after the Lok Sabha elections by winning almost 30 seats from her state. The TMC is projected to win 23-29 seats making it the third largest party in the Lok Sabha after BJP and Congress.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK is expected to win 15-21 seats. The Left Front may suffer yet another debacle by bagging just 15-20 seats. The TDP and the YSRCP are expected to win 11-19 and 9-15 Lok Sabha seats respectively.

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik's BJD is likely to get 10-16 seats, SP 11-17, DMK 10-16, BSP 10-16, TRS 4-8 and AAP 4-8 respectively.

Non-NDA and non-UPA parties are likely to get 170-180 Lok Sabha seats. But, most of these parties are fighting with each other in their respective states and so they may possibly not join hands.

How to Form a Government?

The BJP-led NDA may fall short of 30-40 seats for a simple majority figure of 272 Lok Sabha seats. However, it can take the help of YSR Congress Party, TRS, DMK or AIADMK, BSP and TDP to reach the halfway mark. The TMC and BJD have made it clear that they will not back the NDA. But, they can change their mind once the results are out.

Lokniti, CSDS-IBN Pre Poll Survey 2014 - National Political Pulse [Seat Projections March 2014]

	Projected Seats - March 2014
NDA	234-246
UPA	111-123
TMC	23-29
ADMK	15-21
Left Front	14-20
TDP	13-19
SP	11-17
DMK+	10-16
BJD	10-16
BSP	10-16
YRSC	9-15
TRS	4-8
AAP	4-8
For BJP and Congress:
BJP	206-218
Congress	94-106

Source: IBNLive

UP Poll-Tracker: BJP may Win 42-50 Seats, SP 11-17, BSP 10-16, Cong-RLD 4-8

In Uttar Pradesh, the biggest state in terms of Lok Sabha seats, the BJP is all set to decimate its opponents with the Narendra Modi wave sweeping the state. The party is projected to get 42-50 Lok Sabha seats in the key battleground state according to CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS national election tracker and seat projections by Chennai Mathematical Institute Director Rajeeva Karandikar.

The ruling SP may get just 11-17 seats, the BSP is likely to get 10-16 seats, the Congress - RLD 4-seats and others 0-2 in UP.

According to survey findings, the BJP and Apna Dal alliance in UP is likely to get 36 per cent of the votes in the Lok Sabha elections. The ruling SP may get 22 per cent of the votes and the main opposition BSP may get 18 per cent of the votes. The Congress and RLD alliance may get 16 per cent votes.

The AAP is expected to get 3 per cent and others 5 per cent votes respectively.

Region-wise Break-up:

The BJP is ahead in Western UP and it is benefitting from the divide votes of opposition. The BJP and the SP are in a neck and neck fight in Ruhelkhand. In Awad region, the BJP is leading and the Congress is in second position. In Doab region, the BJP is leading followed by the SP. In Bundelkhand, the SP and the BJP are engaged in a neck and neck fight. In Poorvanchal, the BJP is leading. SP and BSP are its main opponents in the region.

The BJP is leading in rural areas by a wide margin but the contest is narrowing in urban areas. In rural areas the BJP has got 38 per cent support and 30 per cent in urban areas.

Upper castes and Lower OBCs are with the BJP, Yadavs are with the SP, Jatavs are with the BSP and the Muslim vote is divided between the SP, BSP and the Congress.

Modi Leads PM Race:

Narendra Modi has maintained his lead over all others. He has got 34 per cent support and Rahul Gandhi has got 12 per cent support. Mayawati has got 11 per cent and Mulayam Singh Yadav has 10 per cent support for the post of PM. Modi's popularity is also the highest in Eastern UP and Doab region with 38 per cent each backing him.

The public awareness about Muzaffarnagar riots has increased since January and 78 per cent claim that they are aware of it. Overall the majority blame the SP for the riot.

There is a high support for the Jat reservation decision of the UPA government among Jats, but not much support among the OBCs. The next satisfaction with the state government is +1 per cent and with the Centre is minus 2 per cent.

The strong anti-UPA mood continues in UP with 56 per cent opposing one more term for it.

Top 5 Voting Issues:

1. Development - 20 per cent
2. Price rise - 17 per cent
3. Corruption - 17 per cent
4. Unemployment - 8 per cent
5. Condition of roads - 5 per cent

Total Number of Lok Sabha Seats: 80

Party/Alliance	Actual Vote in 2009 Lok Sabha Elections (%)	Survey-based Vote Estimate (%) - Feb 2014	Survey-based Vote Estimate (%)- March 2014	Survey-based Projected Seats - March 2014
BJP+Apna Dal	17.5	36	36	42-50
SP	23.3	22	22	11-17
BSP	27.4	17	18	10-16
Cong+RLD	21.5	13	16	4-8
AAP	-	5	3	*
Others	10.3	7	5	0-2

Source: IBNLive

Modi Wave Sweeps All 7-Seats of Delhi-AAP on Downgrade Slide

Source: IndiaToday