Local bodies and elections

[skthewimp]

Last evening, my neighbour, who is also the president of the local resident's welfare association, briefly dropped in to hand over my mother's voting chit. And dropped in a line asking us to vote for a particular party. "This guy has done excellent work in his previous term as MLA", he said, "and we'll all benefit if he is gets elected".

So what I

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[anonymous]

AFAIK, He is not a Brahmana/Lingayata/Gowda... I am sure that he belongs to a OBC and definitely is not a SC.

What I felt by talking to people in Basavanagudi is that this guy has supposedly been shaped in H Narasimhaiah's mould and people remember his awesome work as a corporator(of Hanumanthanagara?).

Does the candidate matter?

[anonymous]

It is sad that we are forced to base our decisions on such points. How nice it would be if we could get a CV that help us understand a person, what are his/her ideologies/principles (if any), what have they done in the past, what is their priority and why/how they plan to implement.
This is not something we get from their affidavits or party manifestos.
More points on the ABCs of candidate info at http://www.citizenmatters.in/blogs/show_entry/148

Best Regds, Meera
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[anonymous]

http://karnatakaelectionhangama.blogspot.com/