Women voting in indian election

The percentage of women voting in election is increasing with every election.

Women voting percentage reached to 65.63% in the election of 2014.This is commendable achievement because women voting percentage in third election was meagre 46.6% and the data of women voting percentage in first and second election is not available.

This data shows the difference between men and women voting percentage.

Year    Total    Men   Women  Difference
1991      57        61.6         51.4          10.2
1996      58        62.1         53.4             8.7
1998      62        65.7         57.9             7.8
1999      60        64            55.7             8.3
2004      58.8     61.7         53.3             8.4
2009      58.2     60.2         55.8             4.4
2014      66.4     67.09       65.63           1.46

It looks that the women voting will be more than the men voting percentage.

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Election Expenditure

Election Expenditure

The indian election has become very expensive comparitively with the first election . When we talk about government expenditure then it has become around 342 times comparitively the first election ,even we are calculating the government expenditure excluding the expenses of the parties and their candidates.
Here is a look, for better understanding

Year.           Expenditure (in crore)
1952.             10.45
1957 .             5.90
1962 .             7.32
1967 .           10.80
1971 .           11.61
1977 .           23.04
1980 .            54.77
1984.             81.51
1989.           154.22
1991.            359.10
1996 .            597
1998 .             666
1999.              947.68
2004 .             1113.88
2009 .             1483
2014 .             3426 

Source Dainik Bhaskar 15 March 2019.


This is being said the coming 2019 election will be expensive than the Presidential election of America.

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Election 2019 seven phase

Election 2019 seven phase

1.  11 April     20 states      91 seats
2.  18 April     13 stares      97 seats
3.   23 April    14 states       115 seats
4.   29 April.    09 states.     71 seats
5.   06 may .    07 states .     51 seats
6 .  12may .     07 states .     59 seats
7 .  19 may      07 states .     59 seats.

Andhra Pradesh,Orisa ,Arun Aruna Pradesh & Sikkim will have assembly election with Loksabha election.

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Kumhar Para

Kumhar Para

         Imagr from TOI 13 March 2019

An exhibition at IGRMS bhopal the capital of m.p.

IGRMS Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya.

This exhibition is having huge number of visits.

This exhibition shows the pottery traditions of Madhya Pradesh,Assam,Gujrat, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir,Manipr,Tamil Nadu,West Bengal.

Closer home traditional pottery is made by Gond artists of Dindori & Mandla district of M P.

Kumhel Shaktak Phuron a festive tower of Manipur's Meitei community. This is practised  only by married women.

Peghali is a pottery style  for firing pots of Assam.

Likir is a pottery style of Ladakh.

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States and Indian Parliament seats

 States and Parliament seats 2019

Rajasthan                      25
Madhya pradesh          29
Gujarat                           26
Maharashtra                 48
Punjab .                          13
Haryana .                       10
Goa .                                02
Karnataka .                    28
J & K.                               06
Kerala .                           20
Himachal Pradesh .      04
Uttarakhand.                 05
Tamil Nadu.                   39
Uttar Pradesh .              80
Andhra Pradesh .          25
Telangana .                     17
Chhattisgarh .                 11
Odisha.                             21
 Bihar .                             40
Assam .                            14
West Bengal.                   42
Jharkhand .                     14

Union Territories

And man & Nicobar        01
Chandigarh .                     01
Dadra & Nagar Haveli.   01
Daman & Diu .                  01
Lakshadweep .                 01
Puducherry .                     01

North East except Assam

Arunachal Pradesh .         02
Manipur .                            02
Mizoram .                            01
Meghalaya .                        02
Nagaland .                           01
Tripura .                              02
Sikkim .                                01 

     

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The first Chief Election Commissioner of India

The first Chief Election Commissioner of India was mr.Sukumar Seen.

He joined the Indian Civil Services in 1921.

Mr.Sukumar Sen was asked to superwise the first election in Independent Sudan  in 1953.

He attended Presidency College and London University and won gold medal in mathematics.

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Change in Indian Election

1982
 EVMs were used first time in assembly byelection in Kerala and EVMs are being used regularly since 1998.

1985
Anti Defection  Law came into existence.
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1988
The age of casting became from 21 to 18 on 20 December 1988.


1996
Model Code of Conduct came into force from 1996 and the number of seats to fight election for a candidate were reduced from 3 to 2.

2002
As per the direction of Hon'ble supreme Court it is mandatory to make Criminal Record and other information of a candidate public.

2013
NOTA none of the above came into existence in 2013.

2014
All the proceedings of cases against MPs and MLAs would be completed within a year,If the candidates​ had been charge sheeted as per the direction of the Hon'ble Supreme Court.

2017
It is mandatory for political Parties to collect party fund through Electoral Bond above  Rs 2000.

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New in Election 2019

VVPAT will be used in all polling booth.

One polling booth will be managed by women in every assembly segment.

Citizens can report about violation of model Code of Conduct by an app C-Vigil.

Parties Will advertise criminal antecedents of their candidates.

GPS tracking of each EVM.

EVM will have candidates photos along with symbol and candidate name in Braille.

Electronic Transmitted Postal Ballot for service voters.

Social media firms are asked by EC to handle complaints  regarding election campaign by political parties.

Photo voter slip will not be accepted as sole document for recognise of voter at polling station.

VVPAT voter verifiable paper audit trial.

EVM electronic voting machine.

GPS global positioning system.

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Model Code of Conduct

Model Code of Conduct means set of rules which everyone should follow during the election.

This comes into force from day of announcement of election schedule till the declaration of the result of the election.

In 1979 some rules are defined by Election Commission to party in power in center as well as in state,these ruling must follow these guidelines issued by EC.

Some of them are that MPs,Minister, will not use public exchequer for their part work.
Public Machinery will not use by party in power for conducting their party programmes.

Party in power must not announce any policy to attract voters.
EC can issue show cause notice for the violation of this model Code of Conduct and does not leave good impression on the voters.

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