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'Thackeray deserves the punishment meted out by the Election Commission'
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Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:26:07 -0400 Krishna Prasad made a good point which is known to all except the backward people in India: Only backward, poor, minorities now vote for the Congress! This is the main reason the Congress has kept us illiterate and poor. So that they can flow liquor on the eve of an election, distribute saris and kambals and win elections. Even nationally conducted opinion polls have shown that backwards and illiterate vote more for Congress than anything else. What a shame! By the way, in the backdrop of the opinion poll published in TOI where Sushma Swaraj is predicted to win the Bellary seat, Krishna Prasad's poll analysis of Sonia's winning finally looks poorly prepared. Anyway the poll results will tell us who is right. But, at no point, can any journalist replace the trustworthiness of a random poll in a constituency. Will Rediff's columnists take a short poll of 200-300 people in the constituency they visit? Mukund M Kute
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Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:34:00 -0500 Can't you find at least one person of substance to interview and give us some hope?
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Fri, 03 Sep 1999 11:00:46 PDT I always respect Rediff as a very polished website. Articles like this just make Rediff a tabloid. "Oh Jayalalitha slapped me. Oh she did this. Oh she did that" I would not like reading such interviews which are on the same plane as the Lewinsky scandal. Please don't make a paparazzi out of the good articles on Rediff. Please ban such baseless talk and if our country cannot have one decent leader, let us not talk to them if necessary. The only supreme thing about Jayalalitha is her size and let's leave it at that.
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Sun, 05 Sep 1999 10:05:40 -0500 While your long term optimism about India is laudable, you seem to get into the usual Nehru bashing (socialism). This is indeed unfortunate. The country owes the S and T structure to this great son of India and the independence and the fruits we enjoy thereof. Education was a state subject and if all governments have been as good as South Indian governments, the country would have been better off. Look at the other third world countries and compare their self reliance with others. After IBM was shown the door, only then did Indian software come into its own thanks to the infrastructure sown in places like IIT/Kanpur. If you give me your address I will send an article which I recently wrote. Pai
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Mon, 6 Sep 1999 00:16:44 -0500 Excellent interview. As usual Cho is echoing the intellectual mind and is correct. Unfortunately the educated are allergic to polling stations. They are destined to be all time critics. It is the illiterate mass that decides the outcome. Let us hope that his predictions on the outcome are true.
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Mon, 06 Sep 1999 17:09:43 +0530 I would like to express my own pleasure in using the EVM. I belong to the Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency. The simplicity and ease of this machine made me wonder why we did not do it earlier. I remember some hue and cry few years back when there was a move to introduce these. Thankfully it has changed.
Just think of the immense savings that we can get because of the EVMs:
1. Enormous amount of paper used for ballot papers (plus the printing expenses
etc) Still we are a long way from being completely paper-less. But a step towards that is always a welcome change. Personally I would like to see only EVMs being used in the next election (not in another five years, by almighty's grace!)
Girisha B S
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Tue, 07 Sep 1999 11:06:36 +0530 I browse through Rediff regularly. It is a very good site. In this particular interview with Bangarappa, he has answered thus: What brought you back into the Congress last year? Wherever a member of the Gandhi family is on the scene, I am there with them and backing them fully. That means he will be with the Congress as long as Sonia Gandhi is president. After which he will make a new party. Isn't it? Anyway it's not a big issue because it's Bangarappa's hobby to change parties. We have to watch and see how long he will be with the Congress this time. Venkatesh
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Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:51:52 -0700 I am amazed at the reasons cited by Deepa Vasani for stating her cause of having women candidates in Parliament. Whoever has said that only women can solve womens' problems. The member of Parliament is a people's representative. A dirty word like 'reservation' cannot be associated with it and debars more than 50 per cent of the eligibles from representing their people. Every sensible Indian is aware what the reservation policy has done to India (or rather what it has not done). I only hope the dreams of people like Deepa Vasani, in which I sometimes smell a selfish agenda hidden, never never become true. Sanjay
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Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:32:49 -0400 I think you are a Rajya Sabha member from the Shiv Sena. You only ask those questions which suit your leader. Why didn't you ask questions related to public problems? Why does he behaves like a dictator? Why does he consider Maharashtra as his property? Why does he interfere with the government? What is the achievement of his government? Is he honest? Can he explain how his source of income has grown. If he thinks he is honest, he should put all details about himself and his family. Please Pritish, rise above the party line. As a journalist please bring out the truth. There are many unanswered questions.
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Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:34:43 PDT In response to the interview with Balasaheb Thackeray, I would like to ask certain questions. Let me see if anyone asks these questions and replies or publishes them on the web. 1. What about the gundagiri created by Shiv Sena in Dadar -- taking away apartments from people who were on a month's vacation? 2. What about the phone calls made to the people in and around Mumbai buying cars. What action is taken against them? 3. Why has the economy in Mumbai slumped so much in the last five years? Many companies have moved out due to the SS atrocities, the Shiv Udyog Sena. Why does the Press not ask such questions to this person? Umesh Kadam
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Tue, 07 Sep 1999 16:05:03 -0700 As a follow-up to his comments about calculating the number of days under the code of conduct and knowing exactly how many days we have worked. I would have liked to ask a question to Balasaheb: "What does he think of the intrusion by the EC of the democratic process by imposing their own elite vision. By restricting a free debate of the issues and exchange of ideas in a democratic society, is it not violating the freedom of expression and speech? How can the voters truly decide who to vote for if free debate is denied and EC decides that the Kargil issues is not to be used? How can it be that in a democracy the people and their government are not allowed to debate and discuss the most fundamental issue of national security?" I would have liked to hear his sharp tongued response to this sort of question.
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Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:05:24 +0530 Thackeray mentions that any criminal/ terrorist could vote but not him. He deserves the punishment meted out by the Election Commission. Sreedhar
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Wed, 08 Sep 1999 16:37:30 +0530 You have not given the views of the common man of Cuddapah, obviously his family thinks no end of him. You should have titled it 'king of factions.'
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