Lok Sabha elections 2019: Counting tomorrow, VVPAT may delay results

This is for the first time in a Lok Sabha election that results of voting machines will be matched with slips generated by paper trail machines

Checking of votes in favor of Lok Sabha surveys Thursday, coordinating VVPAT slips prone to defer results New Delhi, May 22 (PTI) Counting of votes in favor of the Lok Sabha decisions, in which more than 8,000 applicants were in the quarrel for 542 seats, will start at 8.00 am Thursday and results are normal just by late night due to counting of voter confirmed paper review trail slips with EVM mean the first run through.

67.11 percent of the 90.99 crore balloters had made their choice in the seven stage elections.This is the most elevated ever-voter turnout in Indian parliamentarian races. This is without precedent for a Lok Sabha race that aftereffects of casting a ballot machines will be coordinated with slips created by paper trail machines.

The activity will happen in five surveying stations for each get together portion which successfully implies that out of about 10.3 lakh surveying stations, the EVM-VVPAT coordinating will occur in 20600 such stations. The Election Commission is yet to give the quantity of checking focuses being set up for Thursday, saying the information isn’t halfway accessible. According to strategy, postal tallies would be the first to be checked.

Administration voters remained at 18 lakh. These incorporate work force of the military, focal police power faculty and state police staff who are posted outside their voting public. Negotiators and care staff posted in Indian international safe havens abroad are likewise considered administration voters. Out of 18 lakh enrolled voters, 16.49 lakh have sent their postal polls to their individual returning officers as on May 17. The activity of tallying postal polls physically will itself take a few hours in any event, an EC official said…

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Four crucial messages emerging from the Mayawati-Mulayam kiss-and-make-up

If the intended missives are able to percolate the grassroots, the gathbandhan may evolve stronger and create a triangular tussle for power between the SP-BSP combine, the BJP and the Congress

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Whenever Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav as of late held a joint rally in Mainpuri in which the Bahujan Samaj Party boss spoke to general society to vote in favor of Mulayam Singh Yadav, it made another political edge that sigh to cover the long-standing enmity between the BSP and the Samajwadi Party. It might be reviewed that the two gatherings dropped out in light of the ‘guesthouse outrage’ in Lucknow 24 years back, when the Mayawati outfit’s withdrawal of help to the alliance prompted the breakdown of Mulayam Singh government in 1995.

In any case, in this rally, Mayawati, situated between Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav, agreed full regard to the SP patriarch when he went ahead the dais. The non-verbal communication of the three heads reflected great science between these once political adversaries. Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to his supporters to regard Mayawati, expressing that she constantly expanded help when it was required. Mayawati, on her part, claimed firmly to her supporters to vote in favor of Mulayam Singh and the gathbandhan in this decision, affirming that he was the genuine pioneer of the retrogressive classes, not at all like Narendra Modi, whom she called a phony in reverse. What are the messages that risen up out of this joint rally and what will their effect be in the 2019 decisions long haul legislative issues of Uttar Pradesh?

The first is that Mayawati was making a decent attempt to persuade her devotees to help Mulayam Singh Yadav and different applicants of the gathbandhan, a large portion of whom are Samajwadi pioneers in a locale in which the third period of surveying will occur in UP. This space is normally a Yadav bastion and is broadly called ‘Yadav-Land’, in spite of the fact that it has a sizeable populace of Muslims also. The voting demographics here incorporate Sambhal, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly, and Pilibhit. This is a territory where the Yadavs claim arrives on which numerous Dalits fill in as landless workers. It is additionally an area in which a new country and urban Dalit white collar class is loaning voice to its flimsier brethren…

Rahul’s income plan for poor may cost more than Budget 2019’s subsidy bill

Congress’ proposed minimum income guarantee scheme will reportedly require Rs 3.5 trillion at its peak

If fully implemented, Rahul Gandhi’s proposed minimum income guarantee scheme, or NYAY, would cost more than Interim Budget 2019’s total subsidy expenditure of Rs 3.34 trillion. Its envisaged annual outlay, at a reported Rs 3.5 trillion, would amount to about 1.7 per cent of the Budget’s estimated GDP for 2019-2020 at Rs 210.07 trillion — or about half of the fiscal deficit for 2019-2020 at 3.4 per cent of GDP.

Congress President Gandhi on Monday said that if his party were to come to power at the Centre, it would provide a minimum income of Rs 6,000 per month to 20 per cent poorest households.(Economy News)

At its peak, the cost of the Congress’ proposed scheme would be nearly six times the 2019-2020 Budget Estimates for the outlay on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (MGNREGA) at Rs 60,000 crore. In January 2019, the government made an additional allocation of over Rs 6,000 crore to MGNREGA, taking the total allocation to Rs 61,084 crore, which was highest ever in a financial year. Congress reportedly intends to continue MGNREGA even if the minimum income plan is implemented.

It would also amount to over 4.5 times the cost of the Rs 75,000-crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme. Under the latter, Rs 6,000 per year would be disbursed in three instalments to around 125 million small and marginal farmers who hold cultivable land of up to two hectares.

Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

Congress pioneers said NYAY gets its motivation from Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of helping the last man and lady

Congress President Rahul Gandhi said his gathering, if it somehow happened to shape the legislature at the Center after the Lok Sabha races, would guarantee a base salary of Rs 6,000 every month to 20 percent most unfortunate of poor family units, or 250 million individuals. While the Narendra Modi government had guaranteed to Rs 6,000 every year to poor ranchers, the Congress has guaranteed a coordinating add up to all poor, especially the landless.

The gathering, notwithstanding, rejected its prior suggestion that visualized fixing up the hole between a poor family unit’s pay to convey it to Rs 12,000. It has now guaranteed a level Rs 6,000 every month stipend, or Rs 72,000 every year, if a family’s pay is underneath Rs 12,000. Gandhi said a board of trustees of gathering pioneers, which included Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram, had determined that the fundamental living pay every family needs to endure is Rs 12,000.

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Calling the plan “keep going assault on neediness”, Gandhi said the salary would be exchanged to the ledgers of ladies in every family. The plan would cover rustic also urban poor. The execution will be founded on pilot extends the gathering intends to take up in the initial two years of its legislature, and the plan is probably going to be propelled in the third year.

As indicated by gathering sources, NYAY, or Nyuntam Aay Yojana, could subsume a portion of the current plans, especially maturity benefits. In any case, they denied any designs to scrap its country work ensure plot. The gathering said the financial weight at Rs 3.5 trillion for each annum would be around 1.2 percent of the GDP of India.

Congress rejects alliance with AAP for seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi

The AAP had suggested a formula of three seats each for AAP and Congress and leaving one seat for an independent candidate, possibly former union minister Yashwant Sinha

Unwilling to overcome their misgivings about Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Congress party’s Delhi unit on Tuesday rejected the possibility of a pre-poll alliance with the AAP for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.

The BJP had won all the seven seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, and a split in vote between the Congress and AAP could repeat the result in the city-state. The BJP has a consistent 33 to 36 per cent vote share in Delhi.

As in the case with West Bengal, where the local Congress unit has opposed any truck with the Trinamool Congress, party President Rahul Gandhi bowed to the wishes of the party’s Delhi unit that decided against an alliance with the AAP. Senior leaders of the Congress party’s Delhi unit, including Delhi unit chief Sheila Dikshit, met the Congress chief for nearly two hours in the morning. They conveyed to him their opposition to an alliance with AAP. “We have unanimously decided that we will not have an alliance with the AAP and we will contest alone and will emerge stronger,” Dikshit said.

Kejriwal accused the Congress of helping the BJP. “At a time when the whole country wants to defeat Modi- Shah duo, Cong is helping BJP by splitting the anti-BJP vote. Rumours are that the Congress has some secret understanding with the BJP. Delhi is ready to fight against a Cong-BJP alliance. People will defeat this unholy alliance,” Kejriwal tweeted…

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How election handouts threaten Modi govt’s plan to curb budget deficit

Speculation is mounting of possible cash handouts to farmers and tax exemptions to shore up voter support ahead of polls due by May

Lok sabha Elections 2019: Less than a month before India’s budget, risks are growing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will miss fiscal targets for a second year in a row as it gives into populist pressures before a high-stakes election.

Speculation is mounting of possible cash handouts to farmers and tax exemptions to shore up voter support ahead of polls due by May. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party lost control of key states in provincial elections last month.

Economists at Nirmal Bang Equities Pvt. and Kotak Securities Ltd. predict a fiscal gap of 3.5 percent of gross domestic product in the year through March, compared with a targeted 3.3 percent. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is scheduled to give a budget speech on Feb. 1.

“Increased spending on direct benefits to farmers would make achieving fiscal deficit targets even more challenging,” said William Foster, a senior credit officer at Moody’s Investors Service in New York, citing the limited scope for the government to increase its revenue resources in the near term.

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