Sunday, May 5, 2013

RE: [IAC#RG] Honest Indians : first results of IAC's opinion poll

For starters, we could try a poll about who best could lead the country out of the quagmire we are in. 
While not in any way trying to impugn the process, I would suggest a poll about the best possible candidates for PM from the NDA/UPA/3rd Front(if it gets forged).
I shall be away for the next few days and will not have easy access to the net - so would like to join the dialogue after the 9th.
Best'
 

Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:57:43 +0530
From: sroy.mb@gmail.com
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Honest Indians : first results of IAC's opinion poll

Sir

May I say 4 things in reply to your email

1) If you want to impugn the voting process we used then please say so. We have already identified some weak-points and are working to plug them

2) If you feel the choice of names / topic on our ballot was wrong, please provide another list /topic.

3) If you feel that 180 (as of now) votes cast is too small a sample size, let me say that statistically speaking it is not at all a bad size for a voluntary and diverse group of lazy armchair internet connected activists. Factually speaking this list is biased in favour of urban parties like BJP.

4) That the results emerging for the BJP and Congress (even on such a small and admittedly biased poll) correspond fairly well with the national vote percentages (19% and 28%) polled by them in 2009. (BJP=Namo+Ramdev =19.5%), (Cong=PC+NN+Sonia+Arvind.K =26%). Arvind Kejriwal seems to be cutting into Congress votes (but many ex-IAC and now AAP people are still on this list so Kejriwal's importance may be exaggerated .. and they have disproportionate net presence). We are not seeing any wave in favour of BJP, as yet and voters are not voting on "corruption" plank. Overall Congress may have lost 3-4% vote share nationally but that is not going to BJP either. Lets wait and see the Karnataka results.

Sarbajit

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, mahendra pratap taneja <manitaneja@hotmail.com> wrote:
I find it difficult to comprehend how responsible adults/intelligencia can start  such a serious dialogue based on 'test results' from such a small sample. If it is meant to mislead, then it will certainly meet its purpose as subsequent mails will begin to be treated as gospel.
With regard to Mamta's 'honesty', it would appear that the chit fund matter has been totally disregarded. How ill informed is that. Subsequent to laying down my uniform, I have worked in director level positions in the corporate world and have personal knowledge of how Mamta's troops (goons) are put onto the payrolls of companies as blood suckers who draw salary without actually working and whose only job is 'party work'....this is the private army that she boasts of. What 'honesty' are we talking about?
What our country needs is a strong iron man to cleanse the stables within the framework of democratic institutions. Else the day is not far when the cup will run over and the hordes will take to the streets with obviously undesirable results as the lumpen elements will run amok if the law and order machinery is overwhelmed.....Such a scenario is very possible given the brazen ways of our corrupt rulers who are busy looting the exchequer rather than in governance.
RAdm MP Taneja
 
  

Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 14:46:39 +0530
From: sroy.mb@gmail.com
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Honest Indians : first results of IAC's opinion poll


Dear Col Chopra

You are obviously in a minority on this group because 3 times as many people feel that Ms Manta Banerjee is more honest than him and twice the number feel that Mr. Nitish Kumar is.

Very surprisingly as many people think that Mr.P.Chidambaram is as honest as Mr. Modi.

At IAC we are quite curious about these seemingly strange results and we find that comparatively fewer people from Gujarat are members of IAC. So perhaps that explains it.

We also feel that people are voting on regional lines, so they feel that between 2 "madrasis" PC is more "honest" than the other alternative (Ms. Jayalalita) on the ballot

Sarbajit

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Yash Pal Chopra <yashpal_chopra@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
I feel Narendra Modi is the most honest person in India.
 Col Y P Chopra( Retd )




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