National Voter Day

In the country to make public aware importance of any organisation / commission / constitutional body, during year one day declare and dedicate to that organisation / commission / constitutional body and celebrate across country by organising ceremonies in the capital and states so that it help and benefit citizens of the country and Government of India’s objective to aware countrymen achieved. Below coded are National days celebrated in the country during course of year -   

• January 12- National Youth Day ( Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda)
• January 15 -Army Day 
• January 23 - Netaji S.C. Bose's Birth Anniversary 
• January 25 – National Voter Day 
•  January 26 -Republic Day 
•  January 30 -Martyrs' Day ( Gandhi's Death Anniversary)                                                              
•  February 24- Central Excise Day 
•  February 28 -National Science Day 
•  April 5- National Maritime Day 
•  May 11- National Technology Day 
•  May 21 - Antiterrorism Day (Rajiv Gandhi Death) 
•  August 9- Quit India Day 
•  August 15- Independence Day 
•  August 29 -National Sports Day 
• September 5- Teachers' Day and Sanskrit Day 
•  October 2 -  Gandhi Jayanti 
•  October 8 -Indian Air Force Day 
• October 10 -National Postal Day 
• November 14- Children's Day 
•  December 4 -  Navy Day 
•  December 18 -Minorities Rights Day 
•  December 23 -Farmers Day [Kisan Divas]

Finance and Budget of Election Commission of India – The Secretariat of the Commission has an independent budget, which is finalised directly in consultation between the Commission and the Finance Ministry of the Union Government. The major expenditure on actual conduct of elections is borne by the concerned constituent units of the Union - States and Union Territories. Elections for the Parliament expenditure is borne entirely by the Union Government while for the elections being held only for the State Legislature, the expenditure is borne entirely by the concerned State. In case of simultaneous elections to the Parliament and State Legislature, the expenditure is shared equally between the Union and the State Governments.

Election Commission of India erected on 25^th January,1950 and to celebrate fundamental right of  democracy that is voting , last year it was decided to celebrate National Voter Day on the day of instalment of Election commission of India that is 25^th January. This year on 25^th January,2012 at Vighyan Bhawan, New Delhi Election Commission of India held ceremony to commemorate National Voter Day and it was attended by officials of Election Commission, distinguish guests and foreign representatives in big numbers, but as per information despite invitation to all the political parties, seats of all the political parties were almost void as political parties skip to attend the seminar, considering this during the course of ceremony their name plates were removed. While pointing towards political parties absence Commission Director General   Akshay Raut said perhaps it is due to assembly elections in five states, but he did not miss the opportunity to mention that election commission is getting full support of all the parties in holding free, fair and peaceful elections. In the function former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam distributed photo identity cards and badges to twenty new voters, and also awarded officials who were best in executing election duties. He later on pledge to vote without fear and greed and using their voting right by making distant from cast, creed and religion.

Being citizen of the democratic country it is the liabilities and responsibilities of every eligible voter of the country to take part in every level of elections with full fervor and enthusiasm and extend their hand by participating in the exercise of democracy by voting to the honest, sincere & hard working candidates / parties / alliances’ so that at the time of their stay in the office they work for the development and welfare of their respective constituencies.

Happy Republic Day

Today is the occasion of 63^rd Republic day of India, so its proud moments for every Indian and I extend congratulations to every Indian on India’s one of the most important day. It is sad to add here that if one ask from peoples what is Republic day mean in context of India, then more then sixty five percent will be without correct answer, so for the benefit of fellow such Indians on 26 January, 1950 Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 and India became a sovereign state, thus on 26 January,1950 India became a republican unit. Folks Happy Republic Day.

Punjab Assembly Elections 2012

Punjab State is under process to elect 14^th state assembly, which contains 117 legislator members and out of it 34 seats are reserved for SC but no seat reserved for ST in the state, detail of electoral schedule is –

• Issue of Notification – 05 January,2012 
• Last Date for making nominations – 12 January,2012 
• Scrutiny of nominations – 13 January,2012 
• Last Date for withdrawal of candidature – 16 January,2012 
• Date of Poll – 30 January,2012 
• Counting of Votes – 06 March,2012
• Single day poll in all the 117 assembly constituencies

Below coded alliance/ parties are contesting the elections and one of it or with support of others are going to form the next government in the state –

• Shiromani Akali Dal / Bhartiya Janta Party 
• Indian National Congress 
• Sanjha Morcha 
• Bahujan Samaj Party 
• Independents which include dissidents both from SAD / BJP alliance and Indian National Congress party 

Punjab state divided into three regions –                    

• Doaba  -  26 seats
• Majha   -  27 seats
• Malwa  -  64 seats

It is the history of state that no party/ alliance has return to power second consecutive time after ruling the state, and in spite of  the fact that state is just under the period of  five days voting time but still there is no clear wave in favor of any party or alliance whether it is ruling or opposition party, but no party or alliance letting any chance go by claiming that they have full support of state public thus will form next government, this time Akali party is fighting the elections not on the religion issue but on the issue of development which they are claiming that state did during the rule of their governance along with BJP in the 13^th  state assembly, on other hand Indian National Congress is denying it completely. It was believe in the past that Manpreet Badal’s party P.P.P. can emerge as third front in the elections but now after some opinion polls( not often turns into reality) showing not major effect in the formation of 14^th Punjab State Assembly. Opinion polls held in the state by different agencies were during the period from 7^th January to16^th January,2012 –

• Indian National Congress -  60 to 63 seats 
• SAD / BJP – 50 to 53 seats 
• Others – 06 seats

Manifesto’s released by the major parties of state are full of populist assurances, like –

• Laptops to the students 
• Free electricity to state farmers 
• Free Gas connections to poor families 
• Free plots of five Marla’s to landless poor families 
• Free education up to graduation to girls of state and to the brilliant boys of dalit families

Question rises’ here if  state’s exchequer has capacity to fulfill the offerings or it will prove merely a election gimmick which political parties/alliance make during the time of elections to woo the voters and pull public votes towards their parties, for this 4^th March,2012 is the day when public mandate will unfold and give any party/ alliance to rule the state for next five years terms and then later on it will be interesting to see how much leaders of ruling party /alliance keep their words of their concern manifesto’s plus take the state on to the path of prosperity whom they are announcing right now.

Unexpected, Shocking and Surprising Gift

In this world to live life happily money is top of the list as one of the most important ingredient, along with it this is hard fact that not every individual of the globe has privilege to be in the list to have surplus money so that he/she can fulfill all their desires after spending on to the basic and essential necessities, in rare cases’ it has seen that if luck God kind on any person then he/she get unexpected genuine stack of huge money courtesy lottery jackpot or nominee as successor of relatives property, but in rarest case few lucky individual become richest persons due to somebody’s mistake but honest or innocent person surrender immediately and alert the concerned authority to take appropriate action and rectify the error. Recently such a story get focus of electronics and print media of country in which a teacher of Kolkata who was depositing every month sum of rupees one thousand in his bank account from period of ten months and when he check his account it showed 49,570 Crores which is just around half a trillion rupees in his account, he was speechless and have dark in front of his eyes as he will never ever imagine such a huge amount even in his dream not as owner but even think he will ever count in his life, after few minutes when he get rid from unexpected shock then he informed authority to rectify mistake and thus he step down from the owner of half a trillion rupees to a normal mediocre person. Brief glimpse of this story is as follows –

•        Paarijat Shaha, teacher by profession of Balughat district of South Deenapur of West Bengal, experience unexpected moments in his life which certainly in his whole life it’s not possible for him to earn such a huge amount throughout his career. Appointed in Chakram high school, Mr. Shaha has practice of depositing 1,000 rupees in his account of State Bank of India on monthly basis, after the span of ten months he feel need of amount whom he was depositing in his bank account, then he check the status by login the website of bank and instead of finding 10,000 plus rupees amount in his account, he was shocked as it was showing 49,570 Crores or almost half a trillion rupees, he was unable to believe on to his eyes whatever computer screen was showing is correct. Then very next working day he make contact with the branch head of his account branch and informed about the mistake plus request him to rectify the problem, after getting complaint from the account holder branch manager immediately pass on direction to his staff and asked them to freeze the amount, now branch is in process to get the source of this transaction, how it was happen that half a trillion rupees were credited in his account. Before Mr. Shaha enjoy the feeling of owner of half a trillion rupees amount he himself prefer to strip it off which by no mean belongs to him. 

Corruption & Lokpal

As far India is concern certainly 2011 belongs to social activists Anna Hazare who during the course of the year three times in the month of April, August and December put pressure on to government to come up with Lokpal bill as common citizens of the country are grinding ruthlessly in the sharp teeth of corruption just to get their basic services’ done in the government offices’ not succeed in majority of cases’ until pass on money. Result of Anna Hazare’s campaign in the month of April government agreed to constitute committee to make Lokpal draft which will be introduce in the monsoon session of parliament, but when cabinet approves government Lokpal draft and ignore Jan Lokpal draft despite both versions had score of differences’ on lot of issues’, hence Anna Hazare again sat on fast unto death in the month of August and government succumbs to pressure while seeing the support he was getting from common peoples of the country and accepted his three major demands –

·        Citizen Charters for all government officers mean time bound services’ to the public, failure of it government employees would be entitle for punishment.

·        Lower bureaucracy should also come under Lokpal ambit.

·        Lokayuktas in all the states to have same power as of Lokpal has.

thus he gave up his fast but as next step of the bill was draft has to go to the standing committee of parliament and committee needs some time for addition or deletion in the draft, so bill can only be pass in the winter session of parliament. In the month of December when parliament session was on Anna Hazare senses’ that Lokpal bill will be delay further, he gave ultimatum to the government that if Lokpal bill not pass in the winter session then he will start his agitation again from 27^th December to 29^th December and then after very next day will start ‘Jail Bharo’ movement across country, parliament session was extended till 29^th December,2011 for debate on Lokpal bill, on 27^th December Loksabha passes the bill with few amendments and as government has not majority in the upper house that is Rajya Sabha it was evident that government play tricks so that bill will not fall on upper house and government succeed to hang the bill on the ground of constitution ground as parliament was extended only for the period of 29^th December,2011 till 12 midnight, and time allotted to leaders of different parties to debate on to the bill ended before it was completed, thus parliament cannot work beyond that time, now Lokpal bill is hanging but can be debate in the next session, hard fact of the other side of the corruption is that common peoples are clueless how to get rid from the problem of corruption? Recently survey by’ Politics and Economics Risk Consultancy’ which is Hong Kong based, released its report in which it had given 9.21 points out of 10 to India, which means that India is one of the most corrupted country of the world. Anna Hazare wants that class C of bureaucracy should come under the ambit of Lokpal as below coded four recent stories of Madhya Pradesh endorse his words –

1.      12^th January,2012, in Ratlam of Madhya Pradesh, lokayukta raided the Assistant Auditor Anand Pathak and seized –

·        Two Shops in Indore – 50 Lakhs

·        One Flat – 20 Lakhs

·        Two Shops in Rajendar Nagar – 24 Lakhs

·        One Plot at Highlink- 20 Lakhs

·        Two Plots at Gopur Nagar – 50 Lakhs

2.      12^th Jnaaury,2012 in Ujjain, Muncipal Corportaion’s revenue Incharge Kailash Saangtey raided and exposed illegal property –

·        Two storey house – 25 Lakhs

·        Bungalow – 50 Lakhs

·        JBC Machine – 2 nos.

·        Dumper – 2 nos.

·        Tractor – 2 nos.

·        Loading Vehicles -  2 nos.

·        Tata Safari – 1

·        Bike – 2 nos.

·        Shop – 1

·        Jewellery – Lakhs of Rupees

·        Blank Cheques’ – 56 Lakhs

·        Unnamed property from his relatives – 2 Crores

3.      17^th Jnauary,2012, in Indore Labour welfare department Incharge Brejendar Sharma was raided –

·        Houses’ in Indore – 4 nos.

·        Plot – 2 nos.

·        Agriculture Land – 3 Acre

·        Car – 1

·        Jewellery – 3 Lakhs

·        Cash – 61,000 rupees

·        Household items – 14 lakhs

4.      17^th Jnauary,2012 in Ujjain, Engineer Ramesh Diwedi recruited at P.H.E. Ujjain, raided –

·        Land – 20 Acre

·        Houses’-3 in nos.

·        Car – 4 in nos.

·        Dumper – 1

above coded stories are eye openers and shows that states which have lokayuktas corruption cases are exposed, even in Karnatka state due to revelation of lokayukta of illegal mining CM YR Yeddyuraapa  has been oust by his party and Ready brothers were arrested, so if India wants to change its image from corrupted country in the eyes of world then it needs not only strong Lokpal bill but also Lokayuktas in states and C level government employees under Lokayuktas, otherwise we are heading towards worst time ahead.

Election Chess Roll Out in Five States

On 24^th December,2011 Chief Election Commissioner S.Y.Quarshi declared dates for Elections in five states –

·        Goa – 3^rd March,2012( Single Phase)

·        Manipur – 28^th January,2012( Single Phase)

·        Punjab – 30^th January,2012( Single Phase)

·        Uttar Pradesh – 4^th,8^th,11^th,15^th,19^th,23^rd, 28^th February,2012( Seven Phase)

·        UttraKhand – 30^th January,2012( Single Phase)

tenure of these State Assemblies were going to expire on –

·        Goa – 14^th June,2012

·        Manipur – 15^th Mrach,2012

·        Punjab – 14^th March,2012

·        Uutra Pradesh – 20^th May,2012

·        UttraKhand – 12^th March,2012

Number of Assembly seats of these election bound states –

·        State -  Assembly Seats – Reserved For SC – Reserved For ST

·        Goa -    40                    -         1                     -          1

·        Manipur – 60                –        1                    –           19

·        Punjab   - 117               -         34                 -              -

·        Uttra Pradesh – 403     -        85                   -            2

·        UttraKhand  -   70       -         13                  -             2

Numbers of electors in these five states are as follow - 

·        Goa –  10,11,673

·        Manipur – 16,77,270

·        Punjab -  1,74,33,408

·        Uttra Pradesh – 11,19,16,689

·        UttraKhand  - 57,40,148

Numbers of polling stations in the five election states are as follow –

·        Goa -  1,612

·        Manipur -  2,325

·        Punjab -  19,724

·        Uttra Pradesh – 1,28,112

·        Uttrakhand  -  9,744

Schedule for holding General Elections of all the state assemblies are –

Goa –

·        Issue of Notification – 06 February,2012

·        Last Date for making nominations – 13 February,2012

·        Scrutiny of nominations – 14 February,2012

·        Last Date for withdrawal of candidature – 16 February,2012

·        Date of Poll – 03 March,2012

·        Counting of Votes – 06 March,2012

·        Single day poll in all the 40 Assembly constituencies.

Manipur –

·        Issue of Notification – 04 January,2012

·        Last Date for making nominations – 11 January,2012

·        Scrutiny of nominations – 12 January,2012

·        Last Date for withdrawal of candidature – 14 January,2012

·        Date of Poll – 28 January,2012

·        Counting of Votes – 06 March,2012

·        Single day poll in all the 60 Assembly constituencies.

Punjab –

·        Issue of Notification – 05 January,2012

·        Last Date for making nominations – 12 January,2012

·        Scrutiny of nominations – 13 January,2012

·        Last Date for withdrawal of candidature – 16 January,2012

·        Date of Poll – 30 January,2012

·        Counting of Votes – 06 March,2012

·        Single day poll in all the 117 Assembly constituencies.

Uttra Pradesh –

Sr. No.	Poll Event	Phase 1	Phase 2	Phase 3	Phase 4	Phase 5	Phase 6	Phase 7
1	Issue of Notification	10.01.2012	12.01.2012	16.01.2012	21.01.2012	25.01.2012	28.01.2012	02.02.2012
2	Last Date for making Nomination	17.01.2012	19.01.2012	23.01.2012	28.01.2012	01.02.2012	04.02.2012	09.02.2012
3	Scrutiny of Nomination	18.01.2012	20.01.2012	24.01.2012	30.01.2012	02.02.2012	06.02.2012	10.02.2012
4	Last Date for withdrawal of Candidature	20.01.2012	23.01.2012	27.01.2012	01.02.2012	04.02.2012	08.02.2012	13.02.2012
5	Date of Poll	04.02.2012	08.02.2012	11.02.2012	15.02.2012	19.02.2012	23.02.2012	28.02.2012
6	Counting of Votes	06.03.2012	06.03.2012	06.03.2012	06.03.2012	06.03.2012	06.03.2012	06.03.2012

Uttrakhand  -

·        Issue of Notification – 05 January,2012

·        Last Date for making nominations – 12 January,2012

·        Scrutiny of nominations – 13 January,2012

·        Last Date for withdrawal of candidature – 16 January,2012

·        Date of Poll – 30 January,2012

·        Counting of Votes – 06 March,2012

·        Single day poll in all the 70 Assembly constituencies

Election code of conduct comes into force in all the five states with immediate effect on the day Chief Election Commissioner announced the dates, so month of January, February and March up to 4^th will be in election colour of these states, being citizen of democratic country it’s the liabilities and responsibilities of all the eligible votes to use their fundamental right and give their verdict to deserving candidates or political parties or alliance.

Clueless Indian Cricket Team

Phase of pathetic performance of Indian Cricket team on foreign soil is continue, despite part of so called stars like-

·        Sachin Tendulkar – Master Blaster

·        Rahul Dravid – Wall

·        VVS Laxman – Very Very Special

·        Virendar Sehwag – Sultan of Nafazgarh

it appears that team management and coach are directionless how to advise players to play on the field at the time of batting or fielding, before the start of India’s tour of Australia media hype the series very much by raising the expectation of fans by claiming that this time Indian Cricket team will win the series and they endorse it by supporting that team Australia has unknown young players and senior players are not in the best of their form like Ricky Pointing plus Australia’s result of recently played test series against South Africa and New Zealand. Media also claim that in this series Sachin will make much awaited hundredth hundred, so being cricket crazy country for fans it was enough ingredients to wait anxiously for start of series between two country and first game was schedule to start on 26^th December(Boxing Day), moreover BCCI sends some senior players few days earlier to acclimatize in the Australian condition, cricket lovers were waiting for a tough series.

    Indian Cricket team has to play four test match series, fifteen ODI matches triangular series and two T20 matches in Australia. On 26^th December,2011 India v/s Australia series started with first test match. Below is brief glimpse of first three matches’ –

1.      26^th December to 30^th December, 2011 – Melbourne Cricket Ground ; Australia won the toss and opted to bat first and at the end of first day’s play they were 277 for the lose of six wickets and they were all out on second day at 333 runs after facing 110 overs ; India at the end of day’s play were 214 for the lose of three wickets and they had very good edge to get handsome lead and put pressure on to the Australian team but next day India were bundled on 282 after playing 94.1 overs thus give Australia lead of 51 runs and at the end of day three Australia were 179 for the lose of eight wickets and have lead of 230 runs, on day four Australia made 240 runs in their second innings and gave target to India to make 301 runs to won the first match but on the same day Indian batters surrender in front of fast bowling and all our for 169 runs in 47. 5 overs and match ended in fourth day, Australia took lead 1-0.

2.      3^rd January to 7^th January,2012 – Sydney Cricket Ground ; India won the toss and choose to bat first, but India all out in their first innings at the score of 191 runs which they made by playing only 59.3 overs; Australia were 116 for the lose of three wickets at the end of day first, on second day they lost only one wicket in the whole day game but made 368 runs and were 484 runs for the lose of four wickets and day third of the game store for India more shockers as Australia declared their first innings at 659 for the lose of four wickets and major contribute in the Australian innings were Captain Clarke not out at 329 runs, Pointing out at 134 runs and Hussey not out at 150 runs and gave Indian batters to score at least 468 runs to bat them again, at the end of day three India were 114 for the lose of two wickets, on day four India were all out at 400 runs in 110.5 overs and Australia stamp their second victory, match ended in fourth days and India lost the match by an innings and 68 runs.

3.      13^th January to 17^th January, 2012 – Western Australia Cricket Association; Australia won the toss and opted to field first ; India were all out at the score of 161 in 60.2 overs and at the end of first day play Australia were 149 without lose of any wickets, second day Australia were all out at the score of  369 runs while facing 76.2 overs, and get lead of 208 runs, and at the close of day two of match India were 88 for the lose of four wickets and they are standing at the doorstep of one another humiliating defeat.

It will be seventh defeat in a row on foreign soil if India lose the match. Below is brief look of all the matches –

1.      21^st to 25^th July,2011 – Lord’s London – England declared first Innings 474 for the lose of eight wickets in 131.4 overs ; India were all out in their first innings at 286 runs which they made after facing 95.5 overs ; England declared their second innings at 269 runs after facing 71 overs for the lose of six wickets; India were all out in their second innings at 261 runs while facing 96.3 overs. England won by 196 runs in fifth day of the match.

2.      29^th August to 2^nd August,2011 – Trent Bridge,Nottingham; England made 221 runs in their first innings in 68.4 overs,; India made 288 runs in 91.1 overs and get lead of 67 runs; England made 544 runs in their second innings and gave target Indian of 478 runs but bundled out in only 47.4 overs at the score of 158 runs; thus England won the match by 319 runs and match ended in fourth day.

3.      10^th to 14^th August,2011 – Edgbaston, Birmingham;  India all out in their first innings at 224 runs while facing 62.2 overs; England pile up mountain of runs in their first innings of 710 runs for the lose of seven wickets which they made in 188.1 overs; in their second innings India were all out for 244 runs which they made in 55.3 overs; England won the match in four days by an innings and 242 runs.

4.      18^th August to 22^nd August,2012 – Kennington Oval ,London ;England declare their first innings at 591 runs for the lose of six wickets in 153 overs; India all out at 300 runs in 94 overs; while following on in their second innings score of England India were all out 283 runs in 91 overs , thus England won the match by an innings and eight runs in fifth day and clinch the series 4-0.

• Next three matches on foreign soil of Indian are coded above which are against Australia.

It appear every players are playing for himself, team has no clue how to turns the table on foreign soil and even before the start of third test match at Perth MS Dhoni hints that he will retire after one year period to stretch his career for next ODI World Cup. If BCCI administrator wants that Indian Cricket team perform excellent in foreign soil also then they have to take some tough decisions like –

·        Retire all the 30 plus players from test matches.

·        Prepared mix of both tracks in the country turning and bouncy tracks so that whenever team is leaving for any country then players prepare themselves for the tracks they will get in the country.

·        Get report card of every players during the course of tour from management.

·        Players should be selected for tour on to their performances not because of their names.

BCCI aware that cricket has countless fans in all the age groups but ignoring that  fans wants that their team play good, tough and fighting cricket and victory or defeat are bound to happens but for them only thing matter is the way team perform on the ground.

Happy Lohri

Today Country is celebrating very first festival after New Year that is Lohri, but Lohri celebrates in Punjab with great fervor & enthusiasm and traditionally on that day groups of children, boys and girls comes out and seek lohri from around their localities and residents gives them money as lohri, as this year’s lohri festival will be celebrated by punjabis few days before the assembly polls so it’s the liabilities and responsibilities of every eligible voters of the state to give lohri(vote) to the political parties or leaders or candidates whom they think is most deserving and eligible for Punjab Assembly, despite every candidates are claiming that they have back and support of peoples of their concerned constituencies , below coded parties or alliance are in the race to form next government in the state –

• Sharomani Akali Dal( SAD) / Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP)
• Indian National Congress
• Sanjha Morcha
• Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)
• Independents

State peoples Lohri to the political parties/Alliance/Candidates will be unfold on 4rth March when counting of votes will take place which will decide who will rule the state for next five years. Happy Lohri to every Punjabi.

Welcome 2012

On the dawn of 2012 I wish everybody health, happiness and prosperity. Year 2012 is declare by media suspicious for the existence of humanity rather globe based on the calculation of Maya Civilisation of Peru which is one of the country of South America that after 21^st December,2012 earth will destroy as they(Maya Civilisation) has not mentioned calendar after this date, but it is rubbish as even science cannot predict exactly about future which is based on study and research, so calculation of a civilisation is merely a speculation thus need not to be panic and scared, just enjoy every day before and after 21^st December,2012 and assume calculation of Maya and study by experts only of pessimist minds. Folks wishing everybody every second of year 2012 time of achievements, happiness and health……..Cheers !