Anybody can do an opinion poll today, and almost everybody does, confident in the belief that nobody will come back to check or go back to see what the others said. This graph represents 16 predictions made by various newspapers, magazines, TV stations and individuals like Arun Nehru over the last month and a half, all carried by churumuri.com, and they convey the unpredictability of Indian elections—and the unpredictability of Indian opinion polls—in good measure, leaving us none the wiser.
See what ur Home Minster did: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7997762.stm
I have a suggestion. Instead of worrying yourself sick about who will get how many seats, why don’t you wait for the polls and counting of ballots to be completed!?
India is a country which has produced some outstanding statisticians. I would have expected them to prove the impossibility of predicting the poll results based on small sample sizes.
It is when there is some homogenity sampling based on smaller size will help in predictions. If the sampling universe is heterogeneous as is the case with Indian electorate, predictions become difficult to impossible. I wish some student of statistics will do a scientific analysis of all these polls after the election is over and publish an erudite paper.
In the future either we will take a very large sample say more than 100000 or just do not publish rubbish data based on a smaller sample of even 50000.
Acharya is another buffoon, Home Minister like louh purush dreaming of becoming PM. Yeah, the same Home Minister who supervised the massace of his citizens. yes you got it right the Gaddar of kandar. Yes the one who always demand tough action against Terrorists. Yes the one who was nowhere to be seen during Kandhar. Yes he can not remember correctly the events of the time. Yes he is the one who allowed his Foreign Minister to accompany the Hijackers. Yes the one great debator who challnnged the PM for debate, but took flight midway through an interview!
Yes the terrorist who came from karachi!
Please vote Lalchand Kishinchand Advani !
No Indian name occuurred to the mind! Wonderful! You look outside even for a headline!
@khan
2 terror maniacs were released in exchange of 200 yes 200 innocent indian
This is what a civilised nation does.
Your forefathers were also from a civilised religion.
Khan, what should have we done?
Should we have had a policy like Israel’s, of not negotiating with militants?
You know Israel can afford to have that policy by indiscriminately and choice-fully eliminating its opponents with its military power?
What would you or the congress would have done in that situation?
Bomb PoK? Bomb Pakistan? Send Black Cats to eliminate all the hijackers, their bosses and even their families?
What did Congress do? They went with NDA government’s decision.
We should be angry with that idiot-with-a-faux-big-family-name who rakes up this issue.
For all the NDA govt.’s opposition’s chest thumping against POTA, they too have brought a cheap, imitation albeit not identical, fucked up law.
Do you think the proposed “indefinite” detention of another imbecile-with-a-faux-big-family-name is justified?
Khan,
Do not despair and panick. I know if Advani becomes PM you mosies will have a nightmare come true. So, keep ranting as much as you want for now.
Narasimhanna, the people whom you call mosies are already having nightmares and will continue to have them regardless of whther its Oddvani or his congress counterpart is PM. The other thing is this is true of the non-mosie part of the country too!
@Nilesh
The point is not whether agree on this or not, but claiming he was not aware of accompanying Foreign Minister with Hijakers is certenly unbecoming of someone who WAS Home minister and dreaming of PM.
@Not a witty
What should have done or not is immaterial now, the deed is done and history now. But as Home minister was he not aware of the situation and not party to the decision?
Honestly tell me do you belive his version that Vajpayee and Jaswant singh took the decision on their own and he was not party! He was either a baffon or they don’t think he had in him to take important decision.
@Narsimha
I would have expected an assured aeyh in your reply, but you put an big IF in his path!
Poor Lal Chand Kishen Chand Advani. By the way do you know why he removed Chand in his name?? Nowaday ony Lal Kishen Advani, wonder!
Muslims will have noting to worry when Advani comes to power.
1. Advani’s Jinnah praises indicate that he will do anything to appease Muslims.
2. BJP govt in Karnataka has given 150 crore to minority fund. Not asingle cong govt has spent so much money.
3. BJP if given another chance will give another Muslim a chance to become President like Addul Kalam.
4. NDA increased Haj subsidy while during their term.
So you see, Muslims stand to gain with BJP coming to power.
The only people who will be unhappy with BJP’s soft corner for Muslims would be hardcore hindutva chaps.
Khan – Drink some tea or take a tablet. You’re verborrhea stinks.
Simple is busy peddling his lies I see.
I have to agree Advani will not do much…for that, we will need a Modi or more. Funnily, that’s a certainty if Advani fails :)
Palahalli
i go by facts.
i challenge you
1) DID advani call jinnah secular or not?
2) did bjp govt in karnataka give 150 crore to minority fund or not?
3) did bjp make a muslim, the president of india or not>?
4) did modi make a muslim the top cop in Gujarat or not?
5) did NDA hike subsidies to haj or not>?
I had to put in this link somewhere and I thot a place that also talks of Home Ministers would be approppriate!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Karnataka-home-minister-crashes-wrong-party/articleshow/4398299.cms
Is it a prerequisite to be a clown to be a home minister – from THE inept Zail Singhs and Buta Singhs to the confused Loh Purush to the ditherer Shivraj Patil to the now inelegant Chidambaram in Delhi and this joker Acharya for Karnataka!!!
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I am soooo sorry I repeated in the link what Naveen had said in the very first comment- but my comments are valid I suppose :)
Simple – I challenge you to go through our previous correspondences and find your answers. Your “facts” will get clarified.
Gaby Akka,
The mosies have only themselves to blame for this predicament. They brought it upon themselves by playing the minority card from the begining. As you sow so shall you reap.
Khan Bhai,
I put a ‘IF’ for a reason, you mosies hold the key to Advani becoming the PM by block voting for the numero uno family…so what is the problem here ;)
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Khan Bhai,
Chand is not a sole preserve of mosies…even we worship Chand..which is Chandra in Sanskrit and Chand is Hindi. Hope this clarifies. Let us all prostate before the Moon God !!
Palahalli
What links? A lie repeated 100 times does not become truth.
Which goes to say that you Accept that BJP appeases muslims much worse than Congress.
Simple – Simply amazing logic dude :)
Simple,
Muslims despise BJP for making Mumtaz Ali Khan, a minister.
Despite the fact that after so many decades he was the only one who took up the issue of rents of Wakf Property.
There are property which have rented out for Rs. 18 per month! But the tenants have sublet it for Rs. 250 per sq. ft., supposedly they take around 50 lakhs per year for a showroom!
It took an honest Muslim scholarly politician belonging to BJP to discover this scam! No doubt most of the top, religous leaders are gunning for him, they must be regularly greased by the “tenants”.
Not that it does not happen with Muzarai properties, I pointed this out to show the “appeasement” of Muslims by BJP!
If Wakf properties should not benefit the clerics, then what should! :<
Khan,
You speak as if Muslims have trademarked “Chand.” What does Advani put in nomination papers?
Any way, we celebrate Kamaraj and Doreswamy for dropping their surnames — Nadar and Iyengar respectively. Why should not he simply use Lal Krishna Advani, since it means the same as his name which is in his native dialect.
Palahalli
You should use insight and intelligence to sift through BJP’s double speak. Facts are too glaring. It is a myth that BJP is pro Hindu and Cong appeases Muslims.
Instead of answering to my points, you continue to write ‘zero substance’ postings. Answer me on each point if u have the conviction .
1) Did BJP not release terrrorists from Indian jails and escort them to Afhganistan or not? Did cong release any terrorirst? Thats because Cong and terrorirsts are enemies.
2) Did BJP not oppose nuclear deal or not? Large sections of fundamental muslims too were against this deal. Clearly BJP was appeasing the muslims by opposing nuclear deal.
3) Even Sajjad Lone is contesting the elections. Is this not a victory for UPA? Under NDA not a single separtist element contested, this was purely for votebank politics played by BJP
4) Under UPA, terrorisim ended in Kashmir.
5)) DID advani call jinnah secular or not?
6) did bjp govt in karnataka give 150 crore to minority fund or not?
7) did bjp make a muslim, the president of india or not>?
8) did modi make a muslim the top cop in Gujarat or not?
9) did NDA hike subsidies to haj or not>?
10)Cong has not demolished a single temple, but Gujarat govt. demolished 200 temples in Gujarat.
Lot more will follow to shatter the myth that Cong appeases Muslims. It is actually the reverse. BJP is cultivating Muslims as a vote bank.
Excellent points Simple.
Pala, Please reply to the points made by Simple. Open up your mind. Place your hand on the heart and just ask yourself did right-wing govts like NDA did anything good for this nation?
Simple, BJP is not only trying to woo Muslims, but also Dalits. On Ambedkar Jayanthi Advani kicked off some Dalit blah blah Rath Yatra. He feels the need of Maya memsaab to form govt. Unfortunately its not written in his fate. Lets not worry. Its MMS who will be next PM. I am confident. You are confident and INDIA also. This election is Waterloo for NDA.
“It is actually the reverse. BJP is cultivating Muslims as a vote bank.”
Hmmm…so Churumuri and Simple are Hindutva activists in disguise :)
I heard from a friend, in a BJP tannery road rally, muslims were paid 300 to attend and the whole thing looked like a SP rally
nilesh, quite possible.
A report in today’s Hindu newspaper, shows 25% of Muslims voted for BJP in last year assembly polls.
ANd no I am not a Hindutva activist much as you would like to think of me.
I despise fundamentalists of all kinds.
“I despise fundamentalists of all kinds.” – Hindutva Fundamentalist? How so?
Palahalli
i mean fundamentalists of all kind means Hindu extremeists, Muslim extremists, Christian extremists, Sikh extremists…and every kind of extremists.
Simple, like I said..who is a Hindutva fundamentalist?
Palahhali
I did not say Hindutva fundamentalist, I meant Hindu fundamentalists.
Here is one more glaring instance of Muslim appeasement by BJP
Day before yesterday, Sudheendhra Kulkarni said on NDTV, very loudly and very agressively that BJP has devoted one and a half page (in its manifesto) to minority welfare. Not even Cong has given them so much space in the manifesto.