The hoo-ha about the Election Commission, about electoral rolls, and about EVMs suggests that irksome comic relief remains a part of the loud debates of our robust democracy.
On ECI’s response to his claims, the Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition said, ‘What I say to the people is my word. Take it as an oath. This is Election Commission data’.
RJD leader's response came after EC issued him a notice alleging he holds 2 Electoral Photo Identity Cards. A complaint has also been filed at Digha Police Station in Patna.
Rahul was speaking on constitutional challenges at a Congress conclave in Delhi Saturday. Rohan Jaitley, the son of Arun Jaitley, hit back, asking Rahul to be mindful.
BJP-TIPRA Motha ties are already strained over Centre not having implemented a tripartite agreement signed last year to address tribal grievances in the state.
Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections scheduled later this year, the Election Commission is conducting the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in Bihar.
SC was hearing petitions raising concerns over the Special Intensive Revision exercise being undertaken in the poll-bound state & the 11-document list being accepted by ECI.
Current exercise involves an indicative list of 11 documents to be submitted by eligible voters, which ‘may not be proof of citizenship, only identity’. Aadhaar, voter ID not on the list.
Two-judge Supreme Court bench says it has ‘serious doubts’ whether EC can meet timeline of its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
New Delhi: Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday discharged ten Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, including MP Derek O'Brien, in a case related to a...
After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.
WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
Mr. Jaithirth Rao…a notable who intellectually pleads for a fictitious right-wing while politically supporting the expediently unhinged…bludgeons the reader with another of his over-stuffed, ill-formed, imperious rants.
As always, his opinion piece is peppered with summary observations and warped truisms, like: “It is universally acknowledged that Indian civil servants love these jobs. A person of unquestioned competence and integrity like the late Dr Manmohan Singh had opted for such a job.”
(Disclosure: I would love to own a super yacht.)
There are also a few wallops of jargon pertaining to the purported design of our EVMs currently in use, which we all are expected to swallow fully, with blind faith and obedient nationalism. This, from the founder of a company in the tech industry where any purported capability, any given assurance, and any delivered activity are all expected to be substantiated by an armful of third-party certifications, independent reviews, and repeated audits.
One can’t help but wonder why such an eminently public opinion-maker and corporate-figure argues that it suffices for an activity/service…as crucial, significant, massive, and expensive as a state or national election…to be conducted with much poorer assurances than those for a comparatively trifling corporate service contracted by a foreign firm.
The author further continues regarding the same: “…our EVMs are simply the ideal election machines for anywhere in the world. We should actively try to export them.”
To imagine that other countries would purchase our EVMS, remarkable though they may be, without first seeking design details, demonstrations, provision for conducting extended penetration tests…along with the host of certifications, third party validations etc. already alluded to, as is the norm!
The reality is this. For export orders to come, BEL and ECIL will need to provide far greater transparency and assurances to the world-at-large than what is being currently demanded by sceptics within the country.
Are exports of our sensitive military weapons burgeoning solely because of promotions in which tantalizing titbits of product information get revealed in the form of dulcet Urdu couplets?
The justification that gets conveyed in this stentorian article for the establishment’s misdeeds this week seems to be of the same unoriginal essence which is repeatedly used, ad nauseum, by the brethren that rules. Whether it be in the unquestioningly published web pages of ThePrint or be in the sessions of our hallowed Parliament.
Birds do it, bees do it
Nehru and the Congress could not help but do it
Now, it is our turn to do it.
So, the subjects should continue to live with it,
Even the Supreme Being better approve of it:
For we deem that it is righteously Hindu of us to do it.
(Hmm…Dr. Manmohan Singh has now become the paragon of integrity.)
Mr. Jerry Rao…IIM graduate., and thereafter…crooked banker, venal businessman, crony-capitalist, lower-rung oligarch…again bludgeons the reader with another of his over-stuffed, unbalanced, imperiously delivered opinions.
As always, his judgement is peppered with whiplash rebukes and ill-fitting observations, like: “It is universally acknowledged that Indian civil servants love these jobs. A person of unquestioned competence and integrity like the late Dr Manmohan Singh had opted for such a job.”
(Disclosure: I would love to own a super yacht.)
His Eminence has also added generous wallops of jargon pertaining to the purported design and deployment of our EVMs currently in use, which we all are expected to fully swallow, with brimming faith and nationalism. This, from the founder of a tech company in an industry where any purported capability, any given assurance, and any delivered activity are all expected to be substantiated by an armful of third-party certifications, independent reviews, and repeated audits.
Won’t it be natural to wonder how that company, under such leadership and in those times, ever managed to gain trust and fairly obtain any decent, above-board overseas deal? Or alternately wonder why an activity/service as crucial, significant, massive, and expensive as a state or national election in India need be conducted with much poorer assurance (practically…none) than that for a comparatively trifling corporate service contracted by a foreign firm?
For the reader whose brain is likely to have seized midway while labouring through the discursive, stentorian article…the gist of the justification given in it for the establishment’s misdeeds this week is the same unoriginal essence which keeps getting repeatedly used, ad nauseum, by the brethren that rules. Whether it be in the unquestioningly published web pages of ThePrint or be in the sessions of our hallowed Parliament.
Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Nehru and the Congress could not help but do it
Now, it is our turn to do it.
So, the subjects should continue to live with it,
Even the Supreme Being better approve of it:
For we have deemed that we act for all Hindus
and it is righteous of us to do it.
(Hmm…Dr. Manmohan Singh has now become the paragon of integrity.)
Incidentally, if the suggestions emanating from Travancore-Cochin had been accepted, it is quite possible that Kanyakumari today may have been part of Kerala, and not of Tamil Nadu. Something to think about.
Mr. Jaithirth Rao…a notable who intellectually pleads for a fictitious right-wing while politically supporting the expediently unhinged…bludgeons the reader with another of his over-stuffed, ill-formed, imperious rants.
As always, his opinion piece is peppered with summary observations and warped truisms, like: “It is universally acknowledged that Indian civil servants love these jobs. A person of unquestioned competence and integrity like the late Dr Manmohan Singh had opted for such a job.”
(Disclosure: I would love to own a super yacht.)
There are also a few wallops of jargon pertaining to the purported design of our EVMs currently in use, which we all are expected to swallow fully, with blind faith and obedient nationalism. This, from the founder of a company in the tech industry where any purported capability, any given assurance, and any delivered activity are all expected to be substantiated by an armful of third-party certifications, independent reviews, and repeated audits.
One can’t help but wonder why such an eminently public opinion-maker and corporate-figure argues that it suffices for an activity/service…as crucial, significant, massive, and expensive as a state or national election…to be conducted with much poorer assurances than those for a comparatively trifling corporate service contracted by a foreign firm.
The author further continues regarding the same: “…our EVMs are simply the ideal election machines for anywhere in the world. We should actively try to export them.”
To imagine that other countries would purchase our EVMS, remarkable though they may be, without first seeking design details, demonstrations, provision for conducting extended penetration tests…along with the host of certifications, third party validations etc. already alluded to, as is the norm!
The reality is this. For export orders to come, BEL and ECIL will need to provide far greater transparency and assurances to the world-at-large than what is being currently demanded by sceptics within the country.
Are exports of our sensitive military weapons burgeoning solely because of promotions in which tantalizing titbits of product information get revealed in the form of dulcet Urdu couplets?
The justification that gets conveyed in this stentorian article for the establishment’s misdeeds this week seems to be of the same unoriginal essence which is repeatedly used, ad nauseum, by the brethren that rules. Whether it be in the unquestioningly published web pages of ThePrint or be in the sessions of our hallowed Parliament.
Birds do it, bees do it
Nehru and the Congress could not help but do it
Now, it is our turn to do it.
So, the subjects should continue to live with it,
Even the Supreme Being better approve of it:
For we deem that it is righteously Hindu of us to do it.
(Hmm…Dr. Manmohan Singh has now become the paragon of integrity.)
Sigh.
Mr. Jerry Rao…IIM graduate., and thereafter…crooked banker, venal businessman, crony-capitalist, lower-rung oligarch…again bludgeons the reader with another of his over-stuffed, unbalanced, imperiously delivered opinions.
As always, his judgement is peppered with whiplash rebukes and ill-fitting observations, like: “It is universally acknowledged that Indian civil servants love these jobs. A person of unquestioned competence and integrity like the late Dr Manmohan Singh had opted for such a job.”
(Disclosure: I would love to own a super yacht.)
His Eminence has also added generous wallops of jargon pertaining to the purported design and deployment of our EVMs currently in use, which we all are expected to fully swallow, with brimming faith and nationalism. This, from the founder of a tech company in an industry where any purported capability, any given assurance, and any delivered activity are all expected to be substantiated by an armful of third-party certifications, independent reviews, and repeated audits.
Won’t it be natural to wonder how that company, under such leadership and in those times, ever managed to gain trust and fairly obtain any decent, above-board overseas deal? Or alternately wonder why an activity/service as crucial, significant, massive, and expensive as a state or national election in India need be conducted with much poorer assurance (practically…none) than that for a comparatively trifling corporate service contracted by a foreign firm?
For the reader whose brain is likely to have seized midway while labouring through the discursive, stentorian article…the gist of the justification given in it for the establishment’s misdeeds this week is the same unoriginal essence which keeps getting repeatedly used, ad nauseum, by the brethren that rules. Whether it be in the unquestioningly published web pages of ThePrint or be in the sessions of our hallowed Parliament.
Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Nehru and the Congress could not help but do it
Now, it is our turn to do it.
So, the subjects should continue to live with it,
Even the Supreme Being better approve of it:
For we have deemed that we act for all Hindus
and it is righteous of us to do it.
(Hmm…Dr. Manmohan Singh has now become the paragon of integrity.)
Incidentally, if the suggestions emanating from Travancore-Cochin had been accepted, it is quite possible that Kanyakumari today may have been part of Kerala, and not of Tamil Nadu. Something to think about.
Can Jerry Rao be requested to kindly explain this