Saw the BJP campaign ad on tv where they blame the government for unemployment and recession…the ad goes on to state that all this could be fixed if the BJP is voted into power…Hogwash! What do they take us for?

I think even in these torrid times, our condition is better off…true, the market’s down, but you still get a decent job if you search for it…Most IT companies in India have also stopped placements and employee intake, but they have not let go of their old employees and the layoffs are less compared to what people in other countries are witnessing…

Blame Games! Political parties are it again, and it irritates the hell outta me…it would’ve been better if they offered solutions for those problems but it’s probably too much work for those guys…why bother when people always fall for the same lies? they would rather sit and think of how they would spend those 5 years na? sitting in the air-conditioned office, those very kewl cars with the red light on top…all the money they would earn from selling government contracts to the highest bidder…

3 cheers for Indian bureaucracy…Hip Hip, Hoooray!!

My dear responsible brothers and sisters,

We have rights for everything, but do we have rights to ask our politicians , the following question, whom we elect and select thinking that they will care care of us and our beloved country’s growth.

We will vote for you if you promise that you will not waste money, will you?

Dear politicians, leaders of all political parties,

Millions and millions of money is being wasted; natural resources like fuel and power are being spent in huge quantities during election campaigns. Un imaginable amount of money is also being wasted in printing posters, flyers and the like.

Let us be responsible citizens of our mother nation, stop wasting such huge amounts of money.

Think differently,…

Why don’t you use that money for industrial developments in your localities. Benefits are…your money will earn more money, you will have industries on your own and you will help our country to grow, last but not least you will offer employment opportunities, if not for all, at least to people in your area or your own party men/women.

Somehow or other our nation will grow.

It is really a big SIN to WASTE money in this difficult time. Think about this IDEA ..

Let us collectively make a Change and Let us be the Change.

If you Promise not to waste Money, We will Promise that we will vote for you.

If all of us  ( including our politician brothers and sisters) take this OATH now, the whole world will salute our mother nation(country) one day that is not far away.

Jai Hind

Valoothoor Vama A.Mohamed Ali

A Responsible and Patriotic Citizen

Chennai

The Schedule for the 2009 Lok sabha is uploaded below.

Elections will take place in 5 phases for 543 constituencies across India.

The detailed break up of the schedule is shown below. Click on it to zoom.

Please make an informed choice. Register at www.voteindia.in

** source Election Commission, India

This is the right time to show your anger. Be the part of democracy and rule out all those corrupt leaders and political party who r promising and favoring any kind of reservation in jobs and higher education.
Some of the party dares to promise reservations on various grounds like caste, community and gender in there Manifesto-2009.
Lets come together and vote against all those people who ever is favoring any kind of reservation.

Remember this is your turn…. kick them out..(This is the only time when your opinion matters)

JAI HIND

If you feel so Join our Hand in this fight and spread the message as large as possible, so that each party come to now that if they talk about reservation then… there time is over now.

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The IPL just moved it’s venue outside India. Undecided as of now, but it’s between England and South Africa.

It was supposedly due to the police not being able to provide adequate security to the players because of the election period. But the statements from police ranks, even a written statement from the Mumbai Police Commissioner Hassan Gaffoor speak otherwise. It’s being hinted that it had to do with the Congress – NCP fallout over a seat sharing issue. The revised schedule of the IPL was approved by the Home ministry only to be reversed later. Some say it’s a pressure tactic against the Sharad Pawar led NCP to give in to the Congress demands.

It’s definitely a big loss for India as everyone’s going to take the hit, from the team owners themselves who get some of their revenue from the local stadium ticket sales, to the common shop owners, to the fans. It just won’t be IPL anymore as the energy will be missed this time around. The league owners remain unaffected though, as the major chunk of revenue (around 95% or more) comes from television and other broadcasting rights.

We have come across some cases where the marked location of a user is inaccurate, and sometimes totally off the mark. This happens if while registering, you place a marker without adequately zooming in, which may set it off by quite a few kilometres.

So here’s a new feature called Modify your Location, which lets you view your marked location and also change it on the map. Just enter your email address to receive a verification code. You can also click on the automated link, which takes you directly to the map.

If you have registered on the site, please check to see that your location is correct, otherwise it may lead to inaccurate information being provided to you. To achieve the best result, we recommend that you zoom in to the maximum possible extent while placing your marker.

Hi people,

The VoteIndia team has taken some major strides in terms of reaching out to people. To inspire them about our ideology and the quest for good governance.

We have put up our videos (English and Hindi versions) on Youtube and we have had more than 350 views so far.  We have sent our emailers to all our registered users and we know they will forward the same to their friends. The more people get involved the better it is for each one of us.

We have worked out a new and user friendly design for the website. The new look should be up soon.

We have had 100 new registrations in the last month and its damn encouraging as a volunteer. We are aiming for 1 lac before the elections and in a country of 1.5 billion plus that’s a very very small number. If each one of us can reach out to 4 others and inspire them to register we can achieve a lot more easily.

Come join in the fun. Call us up and get working, get knocking on heads…

Until next time…this is Shridhar signing off…keep the faith in your chosen way… this meaningful revolution is growing each day.

Am sure you are walking upto total strangers in college or office or the street to tell them all about this revolution we are out to bring about. Giving them gyaan about candidate information and why they should know their candidates…etc etc, right? It feels good, doesn’t it, to be doing something and not just sitting and complaining? It’s a wonderful feeling. And we are all proud to be doing our bit for this beautiful bountiful country of ours. So we thought why not go ahead make a small film to ease your life a bit. A film that conveys the message of VoteIndia in 60 seconds flat!!

A film you can simply forward to your friends, ask them to watch it on Youtube (send them this link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2LKRCA8Jb4 for English and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TETY_OAYsXU for Hindi version) They can watch amd ask their friends to watch and so on. So here they are the films for you, for this country, for good governance. Let’s make this meaningful revolution happen.

English Version

 Hindi Version

Downloadable Video (English) : http://www.mediafire.com/file/eikzdzmzrmn/Voteindia.in.flv

Downloadable Video (Hindi) : http://www.mediafire.com/file/4yazldmgtwd/Voteindia Hin.flv

The official blog is now active. The team will post activities and event updates as and when they occur. Also, we will be posting new site features when they are introduced. Right now, we are prepping ourselves for the upcoming elections which will probably take place around the month of April. Cheers, and keep watching this space for more.

TORCH

For a penny less
My heart I have sold
I burn my friend
and call myself bold
I say I have faith
but still I do not believe
Bcoz all around I find
God has become blind
Yet I walked with a torch
as my eyes begged,
a bit of happiness to see.
My torch was extinguished
peace wasn’t meant to be
And all this time I wondered,
In the light…
How much i craved to be,

Now,

For an hour in the dark,

I wish, would be forever for me.

Religion is a way of LIFE, not of DEATH.

We are literate, its time we learnt.

Shridhar – Indian by religion.
15th April 2002