Showing posts with label Lok Sabha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lok Sabha. Show all posts

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Spot on prediction

On May 31, 2009, TSI carried an in-depth cover story on how dynastic politics would hold no more water in India and that it cannot be associated only with the Congress party and that there are numerous political families in India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. The story dug deep into India’s history and how Indira Gandhi donned the role of the Prime Minister following the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, which happened to be the starting point of the dynasty debate. However, this phenomenon is not restricted within the Indian boundaries with the Bush and Kennedy families having already made a similar mark in America. The trend has surpassed the political field and has spread its wings in business, films and cricketing world as well. The magazine compiled and revealed a list of over 150 Lok Sabha members who belonged to some dynasty – big or small. Even as TSI did this story, the charisma of the crown prince Rahul Gandhi was diminishing. Given the lack of influence Rahul Gandhi has had on the voters, TSI was spot on in its prediction.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2013.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
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Friday, January 04, 2013

Their grass was greener

Two CMs who bravely defied anti-incumbency and emerged trumps in both assembly and Lok Sabha elections

The people of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa seem to be dwelling in a wave of pro-incumbency at the moment. This is obvious seeing how their respective CMs – YSR Reddy and Naveen Patnaik – have had a smooth ride in both the state and assembly elections. In the case of the former, its supporters say that Reddy’s plank to back women empowerment paid rich dividends when it won 156 out of 294 assembly seats and emerged as the largest contributor to the Congress kitty at the centre with 33 out of 42 Lok Sabha seats.

On the other hand, Naveen Patnaik’s party BJD literally conquered Orissa; winning 103 out of 129 seats in the state assembly and 14 out of 21 seats in the Lok Sabha. It is the state’s most comprehensive mandate ever.

In an interview, Patnaik attributed his success to the robust pro-poor agenda that his government initiated. “We had launched several safety-nets for our below the poverty line (BPL) population like the Rs.2 rice scheme, the Gopabandhu pension yojna and housing schemes for the poor known as the Mo Kudia Yojna. People responded to it and appreciated it. We are happy that we succeeded in spreading our irrigation programmes for farmers as well as the paani panchayat systems for the control of water by the farmers.’’

Now he want’s to continue where he left off. A normally reticent Naveen outlined his post-poll priorities, “My first interest is pro-poor programmes, meant for a large tribal and scheduled caste population. We are also keen on irrigation schemes for farmers. We have to generate revenues and job guarantees.’’


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
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Friday, August 10, 2012

First among equals

Modi has been voted the best in all categories. Be it electricity, roads, healthcare, primary education, transport, communications, the situation in Gujarat seems only to be improving. But Modi’s road to victory has a few significant potholes. Only 6% of voters in Gujarat are satisfied with the government’s action to control corruption in civil services. Gujarat’s scores in the parameters of law and order and social and communal harmony is also abysmal.

Raman Singh’s popularity is noteworthy, considering he rules a state which is small and plagued by Maoist violence. People seem to be largely satisfied with his government''s work. His state takes the second position in all the categories among the five best small states. Equally remarkable is Orissa''s Naveen Patnaik who has garnered the second position in terms of net satisfaction ratings with the chief minister but his state is in the fifth position in terms of governance among five large states and lowest in the overall quality of life.

METHODOLOGY

This is one of the most exhaustive and comprehensive surveys done to rate the performance of state governments and chief ministers by their own voters. In all, 26,432 citizens and voters were selected through random sampling. The number of voters selected for each state was proportional to the number of Lok Sabha and Assembly seats. Rural and urban voters were selected on the basis of population in the region. Like the sample from Gujarat has proportionately more urban voters than the sample from Orissa. Each ‘voter’ was given a questionnaire to fill up. Team C-Voter identified 15 parameters on which the citizen voter was required to rate the government and the CM. The answer options were standard-ranging from much improved to remains the same to far worse. Positive responses on each parameter were aggregated and a final average performance measurement was done accordingly. It is important to note here that the ‘performance’ of the state government and CM is based entirely on the perception of the individual voter whose expectations differ. from state to state. Hence, Bihar scores over Karnataka in terms of voter perceptions for the parameter public transport. One interesting and exclusive aspect of the survey is a question asked to voters to rate the best CM outside their own state. It has thrown up interesting results! This is an ongoing survey and TSI, along with C-Voter will be conducting them on a quarterly basis and exclusively share the results with readers.


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