Results of the 15th Lok Sabha elections are extremely shocking and unexpected. The exit poll results were all wrong without exception. Even the results of the last parliamentary elections held in 2004 were wrong. It is surprising that on both the occasions the beneficiary of the wrong results was the same party, namely, the Congress.
All the TV channels and psephologists must look into the fact that why all of them were wrong in forecasting their exit poll results. Otherwise their credibility will go down further.
Balasaheb Thackeray had announced in a large gathering at Shivaji Park, Mumbai immediately after the election results of the 1971 Lok Sabha election that they were not effected by “Bai (woman-Indira), Gau (cow—the election symbol of the Congress), but by Shai (ink—used on ballet paper)”. It was alleged that ink stamp put on the symbol of some ballot papers used to vanish and the same used to appear on the Congress symbol of cow and calf. It is possible that what the KGB did at that time was done now by the CIA. It is known that nearness of Russia to Indiraji is now replaced by the nearness of Sonia to America, which is very much keen on getting the Nuclear Agreement passed by the government.
It must be noted that the plot for the mischief was planned and carried out very meticulously. It was done only in certain constituencies so that doubts would not be raised. No attempts were made to defeat candidates like LK Advani. Only a small percentage of votes were transferred to the Congress, so that strongholds of the BJP would have only reduced strength but they would not be completely destroyed.
The following points may be considered to justify the suspicion.
There was a news in Samana of May 17, 2009 that votes given to any candidate in booth no. 265 in the Nanded Parliamentary Constituency in Maharashtra were transferred to Congress. This speaks a lot for the mischief caused by Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) even in other parts of the country. According to Rediff news, May 16, 2009: “The Shiv Sena’s Mohan Rawale has refused to accept defeat even as Milind Deora was declared the winner of the South Mumbai [Images] seat. Rawale alleged that there was a problem with some EVMs and a complaint would be lodged with the Election Commission in this regard after consulting senior leaders of the Shiv Sena including executive president Uddhav Thackeray. Rawale cited the examples of US and Indonesia where the use of EVMs has been stopped due to their inconsistency.” “I wonder how I got only 5 votes from an area that is a Shiv Sena stronghold,” the defeated candidate said.
The outcome of the election is completely shocking. And the more shocking news is the possibility of tampering of EVMs to manipulate the results throughout India. And now there is a PIL filed in the Supreme Court over the possibility of tampering of the EVMs by one of the technologists. Please see the link below. http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=45296
“Computer chips that control the EVMs can be easily programmed to do all kinds of improper manipulations. For example, after a certain number of people (perhaps hundreds) have voted, the rest of the votes may be channeled to a chosen candidate. This is just one among many mischievous tricks possible.”
Also, a similar news appeared in a technical magazine called Linux Journal, citing that the hardware and the software used in the EVMs are not open sourced and hence the functioning of the EVMs are still not clear. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7561
Moreover, there is large possibility that the EVMs can be programmed, reprogrammed at anytime of the election process, and the data can be altered even at the last minute.
There are reasons to suspect the role of foreign powers coming forwards to help the Congress party and in particular, the Nehru dynasty, whom they have always helped in the past. Track records show that the concerned Congress leaders have also never hesitated to take the help of foreign powers in their own party interests.
For example: Dr. Yevgeniya Albats, a Soviet journalist, who was a member of the official KGB Commission wrote in her book that payments in US dollars were made to Rajiv, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and Paola Maino, Sonia’s mother. Rajinder Puri, a very senior journalist has written details of the report in the FPJ of April 30, 2009. He has also referred to a report in the Hindu of July 4, 1991 alleging that Rajiv Gandhi had 2.5 billion Swiss franks in numbered Swiss bank accounts. In an article in the Indian Defence Review Anand K Verma, a former RAW chief of the Cabinet Secretariat claimed that the influence of foreign intelligence organisations had reached deep into civil society and suspicion was cast even on a PM. An article to this effect was published in the Times of India of April 19, 2009. It was reported a few years ago that Congress party and Sonia Gandhi were involved in the “Oil for food programme of Iraq” and the disclosure had caused the exit of a former external affairs minister of the Congress government.
After the February 1971 elections in which the KGB allegedly did the ink experiment, a few scientists made experiments to prove that ballot papers could be tampered. It was shown to a group of Jan Sangh leaders that included Shri Balraj Madhok. A shocking fact of those days was that in the municipal elections in Delhi held only a few days after the Lok Sabha polls, the Jan Sangh, which had received a severe blow in the Parliament, got a thumping victory in the municipal elections. This raised doubts in the public mind. It is for this reason that this time mischief was done on a moderate scale. Yet there are doubts, how all exit polls are wrong!
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