As you are aware, Election Commission of India has submitted their recommendation 5 years ago to the Indian Government to include 'None of the above' option in the ballot papers/ EVMs after listing all the eligible candidates.
Four years ago, one Senior Advocate has filed a PIL in the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India praying for direction to the Election Commission/Government of India to direct them to implement this to enable voters to reject bad candidates.
If this recommendation is implemented, political parties would start fielding better candidates.
Since, the General Elections are likely to be announced soon, India Vsiion Group has made out a petition to Hon'ble Chief Justice of India to take up the case and order the Election Commission to implement this.
If you have not already signed the peition, please go to this link and sign the petition today itself. http://www.petitiononline.com/elec2009/petition.html
We plan to submit to Hon'ble Chief Justice of India on 1st Jan. Please sign this immediatley and circulate to your friends and contacts.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Life after death begins with a post mortem! A Vowter account
Life after death begins with a post mortem!
Mumbai has been attacked. It was a war on India. Now the City is limping back to its normalcy, it’s time to do a quick post-mortem and go ahead with a firm agenda to rebuild the city.
Senior journalist-corporate editorial consultant B N Kumar has floated a Blog – missioinmumbai.wordpress.com – to bring together some thoughts to promote the concept of rebuilding Mumbai.
“Not that Mumbai has been ravaged in the terror war. But more than physical loss, it has left deep scars on the minds of the peace loving, right thinking, law abiding and above all hardworking people here,” says BNK.
To kick-start the web discussion, he raised a few questions saying: “Life after death starts with a post mortem. Let’s do that. To my mind, few stray thoughts occur.”
• The media coverage and the hoopla raised over the attacks clearly expose the divide in Mumbai – South Mumbai versus the rest.
• Why did e very one ignore the attacks on VT (CST) for a very, very long time, until Taj was “liberated”?
• Why weren’t the channels showing live from JJ and other hospitals?
• Why weren’t OB vans parked at VT to gauge the sense of mood of the so-called common man, the commuter?
• Why have all us forgotten the fact that Gateway was built in honour of the British King’s landing in Mumbai, where as CST (then VT) is the commonman’s hub?
• The various newspaper pages are also full of stories of the elite and socialites suffering as though Mumbai begins and ends with them. Where are the stories of emotions of the kin of those shot dead at CST?
• Why, and why, there are no candle light processions and meetings at CST?
“Until, we shake ourselves out of this bias (could be inadvertent!), we will not see and change taking place. And please don’t expect other to change,” he said.
Mumbai has been attacked. It was a war on India. Now the City is limping back to its normalcy, it’s time to do a quick post-mortem and go ahead with a firm agenda to rebuild the city.
Senior journalist-corporate editorial consultant B N Kumar has floated a Blog – missioinmumbai.wordpress.com – to bring together some thoughts to promote the concept of rebuilding Mumbai.
“Not that Mumbai has been ravaged in the terror war. But more than physical loss, it has left deep scars on the minds of the peace loving, right thinking, law abiding and above all hardworking people here,” says BNK.
To kick-start the web discussion, he raised a few questions saying: “Life after death starts with a post mortem. Let’s do that. To my mind, few stray thoughts occur.”
• The media coverage and the hoopla raised over the attacks clearly expose the divide in Mumbai – South Mumbai versus the rest.
• Why did e very one ignore the attacks on VT (CST) for a very, very long time, until Taj was “liberated”?
• Why weren’t the channels showing live from JJ and other hospitals?
• Why weren’t OB vans parked at VT to gauge the sense of mood of the so-called common man, the commuter?
• Why have all us forgotten the fact that Gateway was built in honour of the British King’s landing in Mumbai, where as CST (then VT) is the commonman’s hub?
• The various newspaper pages are also full of stories of the elite and socialites suffering as though Mumbai begins and ends with them. Where are the stories of emotions of the kin of those shot dead at CST?
• Why, and why, there are no candle light processions and meetings at CST?
“Until, we shake ourselves out of this bias (could be inadvertent!), we will not see and change taking place. And please don’t expect other to change,” he said.
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