More crorepatis, more criminals in 2nd phase

http://www.zeenews.com/nation/2009-04-20/525300news.html

Check out the news post Congress certainly leads , it comes to Criminal Candidates.

Are we really Safe ??

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/3-polling-booths-set-on-fire-in-Orissas-Malkangiri-district/articleshow/4408741.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Powerful-IED-found-near-polling-station-in-Assam/articleshow/4409054.cms of 200kg
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Naxal-strikes-kill-17-on-Lok-Sabha-polling-day/articleshow/4408267.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ranchi/Terror_reigns_supreme_in_Latehar/articleshow/4411061.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ranchi/Colleagues_dead_15_BSF_men_in_hospital/articleshow/4411725.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bhubaneswar/Zero_count_at_8_booths_because_of_Maoist_terror/articleshow/4411136.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Nagpur_They_risk_finger_to_show_finger/articleshow/4412444.cms

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Patna/Naxal_threat_looms_large_in_second_phase_too/articleshow/4421096.cms

How many more news do we need to realize and come out of the fantasy that we are safe. We really need Stringent laws and their stringent implementation against terrorism.
Closing eyes on reality & denial will not help us come out of the situation. We need to realise the gravity of the situation and employ all Sam, Dam, Dand, Bhed to overcome the terrorist.

Gujrat Riots the Special Investigation Team's Obesrvations

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/NGOs-Teesta-spiced-up-Gujarat-riot-incidents-SIT/articleshow/4396986.cms

The Special Investigation Team responsible for the arrests of those accused in Gujarat riots has severely censured NGOs and social activist Teesta Setalvad who campaigned for the riot victims.
(Some previous information on Lady's actions http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/221022008.htm)

Here's detailed account of who got money from where
http://www.dailypioneer.com/144856/Godhra-riot-witnesses-got-Rs-1-lakh-each.html

Isn't it thought provoking to see how money can change the stand people take and how it can be used to falsely malign the state machinery which is trying to get the situation under control. More disturbing to see where the donated money goes.

Performance of Congress on Infrastructure and Development

http://www.webnewswire.com/node/448633

Congress could not even continue the momentum of already started highway development projects of NDA, too bad their reports speak bountiful about inept governance. Just continuing on the projects could have generated good amount of employment options for daily wage earning people of India.

"Jobs are the way to development NOT the alms of Subsidies & Loan waivers"

Performance of Congress on Agro-developement

In Maharashtra’s poorest districts, politicians strike it rich
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/04/14/stories/2009041460551300.htm
The constituencies of Maharashtra facing agrarian crisis, with farmers committing suicides, are the ones where Congress MLAs & MPs have grown richest. Yet, congress feels that it will win the polls on Loan waivers.

Loan waivers are worst form of lure, they reward those who cannot perform and punish those who even under worst of circumstance still manage to repay their debts. Reason one Loan waiver wave discourages bankers from giving loans to farmers as they see no profit in lending to farmers. The farmers who paid the debts now are left with no options but to starve or go to savkars as they see no more loans coming from Banks.

Instead Lower rates should be proposed along with strong insurance support to deal with the climatic odds. Plus there has to be a channel to export the excess which is not rightly done currently. Storage for agricultural produce is very costly and cannot be afforded be marginal farmers. The excess produce and one time of getting crops to market forces the farmers to sell their produce at lower price for fear for spoiling. The stockist take undue advantage of opportunity, wait and sell of the same vegetables at 5 times the original price. Again its the farmer here who is at loss.

No insurance, farmers will be forced to commit suicides
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_farmer-commits-suicide-in-nashik-after-rain-ruins-crops_1474186

Indian history through Eyes of History Student of foreign origin

http://www.rediff.com/news/franc.html

François Gautier (http://www.francoisgautier.com/) born in Paris, is a French journalist and writer, who was for eight years the political correspondent in India and South Asia for " Le Figaro " and worked for Ouest-France, the largest circulation daily (1 million copies) and Marianne, a political magazine. He has written several articles and columns. Married to an Indian and has lived in India for the past 33 years. Francois, who wrote extensively for the “Ferengi’s Column” in the Indian Express and the “French Connection” column in the Pioneer and contributes regularly to Rediff.

He has presented a very good account Indian History which is not included in our history textbooks for rotten politics of minority appeasement carried out by political party which comes to the power only with vote bank politics and its Political leaders have only one agenda of filling their own deep pockets at the cost of Country's development.
Rewriting Indian History

I salute Francois for his continuous and dedicated efforts to bring into light "the plight of Kashmiri Pundits" and Wish him success at it.

Right to our motherland and its resources is ours

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Guwahati/Bangladeshi-influx-worries-Muslims/articleshow/4376657.cms

Good at least the Indian Muslims are waking up to see effects of dirty vote bank politics.

Every sovereign state has its own economy which runs the Government and the country infrastructure of basic necessities. The economic system generates money from Tax paid by the citizens, investments in PSUs, holdings in various instructions and reserving right to country's natural resources, etc. The profit so generated has to be used for providing subsidy to various basic necessities LPG, Kerosene, Food grain Ration and life saving drugs, so on and so forth...

Given that India has huge population and is one of the few most densely populated countries. Which means the population is already in excess to the Land mass we have. It is still developing in terms of infrastructure so it needs more influx of money than the expenditure on subsidies to cut on deficit and debts that it has been building over post independence years. Plus our very friendly neighbours have made it mandatory for us to go on expending in curbing terrorism and infiltration.

Our overburdened economy needs relief and not irresponsible approach towards ill-legal immigration, which adds undue burden on infrastructure.

Logical approach to the situation, is very simple we build our system strong enough to support our less fortunate struggling neighbours. But this can be done only after we have built ourselves strong enough, which is not possible if do not stop ill-legal immigration claiming right on our natural resources and encroaching our jobs. we need to seal all borders, and deport all ill-legal immigrants so that our own citizens get the opportunity to work and feed their own families.

"Jobs are the way to development NOT Subsidies & Loan waivers" Reserve our jobs for us and Deport ill-legal immigrants back to their countries.

Wondering Why India is still developing nation??

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Its-politicians-not-India-shining-as-their-assets-soar/articleshow/4367826.cms

India Shining ?? You may not be able to say this about India, but its politicians are certainly shining.

The richest candidate so far, going by assets declared, is Lagadapati Rajagopal, the owner of power generation and infrastructure company Lanco, and the Congress candidate from Vijayawada. He has shown assets worth
Rs 299 crore. In 2004, he had declared assets worth just Rs 9.6 crore. In other words, during the five-year UPA rule, his assets went up 30 times or by almost 3000%.

Polls 2009 Coverage Links

http://yourvoice2009.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Very Good documentation regarding the issues facing nation and its solutions proposed by various parties.

http://www.rediff.com/election/loksabhapolls09.html
A every extensive coverage of all parties by rediff.
Do take time out to go through at least a few articles before you vote, if you are an educated Indian citizen.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Election09/
Constituency wise coverage.

http://in.elections.yahoo.com/
Good attempt the best part of this site is compare manifestos feature check the next link
http://in.elections.yahoo.com/comparemanifesto.html?party1=BJP&party2=Congress

All of these are must read for an Educated Indian Voter and Young aspirants below 18 should also read, it might help them understand the democracy and seat game better.

some of the sites have very good documentation of previous Elections also.

Congress & its achievements

http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/mar/27/guest-column-tarun-vijay-on-dynasty-and-the-varun-effect.htm

A good write up on congress and its achievements. Do read it to remember things we tend to overlook.

We lost 1,25,000 sq.kms to Pakistanis & Chinese during Congress rule, read the following article for more details
http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/tarunvijay/2387/53293/the-doctor-helped-in-time.html