Dr. Kalam's message to all Indians(text based)

Message to the citizens of my country

Dear friends, as you are aware, India, the largest democracy in the World is going to elect the members of her 15th Lok Sabha and members of Legislative Assembly in certain states. Dear friends, it is a great opportunity provided to us to elect the members who will be guiding the destiny of the nation for the next five years. The right to vote is a sacred right and an onerous responsibility that we owe to the motherland.

The dawn of beautiful India is in our mind and then in our deeds. The deed for the day of the election for us is to cast our vote and be a proud contributor to the success of the spirit of democracy of the largest and dynamic democracy of all democracies. Dear friends, let us all go ahead and exercise our fundamental right to vote and elect the righteous candidate.

APJ Abdulkalam 

Dr. Kalam's message to the nation

Dear readers,

Voting is the basic right of every Indian and if anyone does not use it to solve the problems of nation, he/she has no right to blame or the nation for the problems faced by all Indians today.Here, Dr Abdul Kalam exhorts people to vote for righteous candidates & sets 5 point agenda for new MPs.Interview by Mr.K.Srinivasan, Founder & Managing Trustee, Prime Point Foundation, a non-profit, chennai based NGO.Please forward the message to as many people as possible.

Note:The video is in compressed format so quality may suffer.You may download this using Real Player 11.After download you may use the YouTube Downloader available for free at http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ to convert it in high quality.

Rule 49-O

Rule 49-O is a rule in The Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961^[1] of India, which governs elections in the country. It describes the procedure to be followed when a valid voter decides not to cast his vote, and decides to record this fact. The apparent purpose of this section is to prevent the election fraud or the misuse of votes.

Text of the rule:

49-O. Elector deciding not to vote.-If an elector, after his electoral roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in Form-17A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon as required under sub-rule (1) of rule 49L, decided not to record his vote, a remark to this effect shall be made against the said entry in Form 17A by the presiding officer and the signature or thumb impression of the elector shall be obtained against such remark.

Meaning:

If a person decides to vote no one, then his/her vote will be counted as a negative vote.This is a useful tool to get our needs and expectations fullfilled by the govt. 

Present Implications of Rule 49-O:

Since the ballot paper / Electronic voting machine (EVM) contains only the list of candidates, a voter cannot record his vote under Section 49-O directly. He must inform the presiding officer at the election booth. This violates the secrecy of the ballot. However, with paper ballot a different method is used to “waste” ones vote, which is stamping on multiple candidates. In fact this was the standard method of giving null votes without violating secrecy before the advent of the EVM.

At present, in an election, a winner will be declared irrespective of the number of ‘non-votes’. However, a note of every ‘non-vote’ will be made with the Election Officer, and the total number of non-voters will, presumably, be available under the Right to Information Act.

Dear readers,

I recently found a video on You Tube which says all that I wanted to say on this blog and thus I am sharing it here.

Note:I do not take any credits for the video since it is a property of Mr.Anoop Sherlekar

and sincerely thank him for creation and sharing of this video.

Available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEQWzwUB9GQ

TOI Lead India Video

Dear Readers,

Please watch this video carefully.This expresses this I wnt to tell...the boy is the effort we need for development...i.e.,  an initiave, team spirit, and hard work.The girl who says "I hate this country" represents the part of negative youth, who are themself not taking any action but blaming everyone and just blaming. 

About the video :

This  video has been produced by Times of India and audio is made by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

You can download this video from You Tube.