First ever local body election for Melvisharam Municipality was held in Melvisharam on October 19th, 2011. There was huge hue and cry on whom to vote for the first local body election held after 42 years. Many independents and party workers from major AIADMK and DMK in groups canvassed house to house and street to streets in their wards to get votes for them. Over this, there was a tough challenge for the voters to decide about the position of the chairman.
For the first time people of this town were divided in favor of parties and independents who were contesting this civic poll, anyway most of them are focused to elect the best candidate for counselors but the unity remained decided to elect for the post of chairman.
As the results were declared, obviously Puttu Abdul Rahman Sahib of AIADMK won the Municipality Chairman post for Melvisharam Municipality of Vellore district in the 2011 Local body election with 10, 546 people favoring him for this position. His nearest rival Muhammad Akbar Basha K of DMK who secured 1772 votes.
We the team of melvisharam.com wishes the best to all the elected counselors and the chairperson of melvisharam municipality and expect a fair and transparent services from all the elected counselors as well as the chairman and vice-chairman.
A. Mohammed Jaan, Member of Legislative Assembly representing the Ranipet constituency in Vellore district, was on Wednesday sworn in Minister.
At a brief function at Raj Bhavan, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala administered the oath of office and allegiance and oath of secrecy.
He has been given the subjects of Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes, Denotified Communities, Overseas Indians, Refugees and Evacuees and Minorities, including Wakf.
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and Speaker D. Jayakumar were among those present.
Thanks to Thameem Ansari for this post.
Kingmakers are out. There is only one king in the out of the Great Indian Election 2009. And that's Manmohan Singh, the prime ministerial candidate of the Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) that won with a decisive margin, belying predictions of a hung parliament. At least half-a-dozen regional satraps who were harboring prime ministerial ambitions and were itching to play kingmakers are now out in the cold. Contrary to the pre-poll scenario, when both the Congress and the BJP were assiduously courting them in search of the elusive 272 halfway mark in parliament, the market value of the so-called kingmakers has dipped dramatically.
Almost all exit polls predicted a photo finish contest between the two leading political formations, fuelling ambitions of those who were bracing to drive hard political bargains.
Not sure of the numbers, a timorous Congress was courting Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Nitish Kumar despite his insistence that he was firmly in the NDA camp. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa, Biju Janata Dal chief Naveen Patnaik were among those the Congress was eyeing and had sent emissaries to woo.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi even went to the extent of praising Nitish Kumar and Naidu as examples of good leaders outside the UPA fold - widely seen as overtures to the two who have carved their careers around anti-Congress politics.
The BJP, which was hoping to emerge at the head of the largest pre-poll alliance, too, unleashed a charm offensive. Senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu flew to Hyderabad to forge equations with Naidu, a former NDA ally. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi rushed to Chennai to say it with flowers to Jayalalithaa, who was already declaring price for her support: the dismissal of the M. Karunanidhi government.
Others were broadcasting their wish list for potential suitors.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's ambitions transcended mere deal-making as she fancied herself as a dark horse who could walk away with the prime ministerial trophy if her Third Front allies manage to get more than 100 seats. She was banking on her friend, Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Prakash Karat, who repeatedly said the Left Front would work to install a non-Congress, non-BJP government at the centre. And Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav went around saying unabashedly that his party's support would be for any alliance that would dismiss his bete noire Mayawati's government.
Now the long and twisted wish list of potential kingmakers lies in tatters as they wake up to the post-poll reality. The numbers, on which they were shoring up their dreams, are not simply not with them this time round.
A good news article from Yahoo! By Manish Chand; Submtted by Zia-ul-Mubeen
The Largest democracy of the world is going to polls and choosing its representative through a record number of voters for the 15th Lok Sabha. This Huge process which costs around 1,120 crore rupees, starts on April 16, goes up to 13 May 2009 and the Indian people will receive the new government in place within 2 June 2009. The result of the election will be announced on 16th May, 2009.
The round-up of Lok Sabha Polls 2009 has a total of 543 seats with 714 Million voters. The election will be held with the Electronic voting machine (EVM), as was done with the 2004 election. There are 13,68,430 voting machines available across the country. There are 8,28,804 polling stations in the country which was 20% increase over the past 2004 election. The 2009 general election will see 3 main national pre-poll alliances take on each other. They are United Progressive Alliance, National Democratic Alliance and Third Front Alliance.
Everyone will be aware that Melvisharamfalls under Ranipet assembly segment which itself falls under Arakkonam Lok Sabha Constituency. The six assembly segments - Tiruttani, Arakkonam, Sholinghur, Ranipet, Arcot, Cheyyar falls under the Arakkonam Constituency.
It is the responsibility of every citizen to vote and elect their representative who will voice and represent the issues and developments in the Parliament. Before voting blindly for any person to represent our constituency, one should know about the candidate whether he / she is capable of solving the unsolved current issues and bringing good developments to the last root of the segment. Let we all expect the best candidate be elected in our constituency who have the patience to answer us when the needs arise!
It is very important and compulsory for all the citizens of India to have the valuable voter’s identity card. It becomes a basic identity card during the times of election and additionally can be used as address proof, local domicile, etc in various government programmes.
As election is approaching in our nation, Election commission is speeding up the issue of voter’s ID card all over India. EC has come up with a new idea to avoid long queue to get photographed for voter ID card. If you want to get a voter ID, fill up the form and attach a passport size photograph and in 72 hours you will get the new voter ID card. But the applicant has to go in person to get the Election Photo ID card.
For inclusion of names one have to submit complete information in FORM 6 and those who have any objections on inclusions of name should submit a duly filled FORM 7.
