Vote Bengaluru

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 12-APR-2009

Present generation has a sacred duty of strengthening the foundation of democracy.  Our future generations will curse us if we do not make this online course correction to the decaying democratic system fanned by different kinds of -isms or internal disturbances.

TV9 constituency-wise televised debate recording

murali772 - 10-APR-2009

SmartVote and News9 are organisinbg a constituency-wise televised Candidates Debate.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 14th April

9AM - Bangalore South,

1PM - B'lore North,

4PM - B'lore Central.

Urban minimum wage as election promise?

silkboard - 7-APR-2009

Cities are not just about rich or middle classes. It is estimated that majority of residents (> 60%) in our cities belong in poor or lower middle income groups. I was wondering if Lok Sabha 2009 has seen any promises that would influence the votes of this sizeable group?

Why it's difficult for me to consider voting for Congress

murali772 - 6-APR-2009

The secret owners of the secreted monies operate in secrecy — venal businessmen, corrupt politicians, public servants, drug lords, and criminal gangs like the D-company. The slush monies are the financial RDX for terror, besides weapons of mass destruction of national and global finance. That there is secret money is no more a secret. Only the amounts and persons are secret.

A Public Agenda for the coming BBMP elections !!

Public Agenda - 2-APR-2009

If the BBMP elections are held as per the High Court directions to the GoK then before the end of July 2009 we will have 148 elected councillors.

Almost 30 months without local government elections.

Why I may want to vote for BJP this time

murali772 - 31-MAR-2009

"I want to say that if NDA (BJP-led National Democratic Alliance) is voted to power, we will pursue this issue at legal and executive level and force Indian citizens to bring back their wealth to the country," Advani said, citing the "crusade" by western countries against tax havens provided by Swiss banks.

Meeting with Mr Manivannan, DC, Mysore. (CANCELLED)

murali772 - 28-MAR-2009

Meeting CANCELLED/POSTPONED, as some last minute developments in Mysore will keep Mr Manivannan busy today. We will reschedule this and shortly announce a new date.

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Prajagale'

Great grand-mother of all scams

murali772 - 27-MAR-2009

The poll-eve race among political parties to promise foodgrains at cheap rates to poor people, when implemented, is counter-productive, warns the Justice D P Wadhwa Committee in its report submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
    

Mixing "what" and "how" - Mysore water supply protest example

silkboard - 21-MAR-2009

Not writing this to take sides in the recently lit 'protest' over supposed privatization of water supply at Mysore. Good friend Vinay forwarded this article from Star of Mysore which goes by the title "Intellectuals oppose Tata deal"

State gets its ‘act’ together, hopefully

murali772 - 15-MAR-2009

After an interminably long sitting on tabling of the Karnataka Police Act for more than a year, the state government has decided to implement the Act through an executive order to avoid a possible embarrassment when the monitoring committee set up by the Apex Court would come for a visit later this month.