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Claim Check: 13,000 government schools shut in Gujarat

Rahul Gandhi says 13,000 government schools have been shut in Gujarat

Claim: 13,000 government schools have been shut in Gujarat.


Who: Congress party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

Where: At a rally in Bardoli, Gujarat, on 8 February.

Check: He is wrong.



District-level school statistics show the number of elementary* schools in Gujarat has actually increased from 40,943 in 2011-12 to 42,745 by September 2012.

It would appear that the claim is based on a resolution passed by the state government’s education department on 9 June 2011, that suggests that 13,450 primary schools with a class strength of less than 100 students be merged with the nearest bigger schools keeping in mind the Right to Education Act that states provision of a school within a radius of 1km (for Classes I-V) and 3km (for Classes VI-VIII). Of these, there are 6,826 primary schools that have less than 50 students.

The resolution cites lack of adequate students, lower staff strength and financial unavailability for running these schools. It directs all district education officers, city education committees and zila panchayats to make note of such schools with less than 100 students. Merging these schools with more successful government schools in the neighbourhood would provide for better infrastructure, better education and save on costs, the circular from the state’s education department (in Gujarati) said.

Source: District Information System for Education ( DISE ), Gujarat education department resolution

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Claim Check: Rahul Gandhi on the number of information commissioners in Gujarat
Rahul Gandhi says there is only one right to information commissioner in Gujarat when there should be 10

What: There is only one right to information commissioner in Gujarat when there should be 10.


Who: Rahul Gandhi, vice-president of the Congress party that leads the ruling United Progressive Alliance.

Where: At a farmer’s rally in Bardoli in Gujarat on 8 February.

Check: He is wrong.


There are three right to information commissioners in Gujarat. They are D. Rajagopalan, chief information commissioner and former chief secretary of the Gujarat government, Balwant Singh and V.S. Gadhavi, information commissioners. India’s government transparency law says that there should be a maximum of 10 information commissioners in a state but does not stipulate a minimum number.

Source: Gujarat information commission, RTI Act
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Claim Check: Narendra Modi on poor school infrastructure in West Bengal
Modi says only 35% schools in West Bengal have electricity and only 60% girls’ schools have toilets

Claim: Only 35% schools in West Bengal have electricity and only 60% girls’ schools have toilets.

Who: Narendra Modi, Gujarat chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate.
Where: At a public meeting in Kolkata on 5 February.

Check: He is correct, based on publicly available data.



According to statistics collected under a human resource development ministry programme, 35.48% of West Bengal schools have electricity; and only 59.3% have a functional girls’ toilets (data is from 2011-12).
More recent data from the Annual Status of Education Report (Aser) only has information on toilets in rural schools. It says 53.7% of schools (in villages) in West Bengal have functional girls’ toilets.
To be sure, this has been contested by the Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government, which claimed that all schools had electricity and 82.8% had a functional toilet for girls. These figures are being displayed on the state government’s school education department site. Mint could not independently verify these numbers.
Source: District information system on education, 2011-12; Annual Status of Education Report 2013; West Bengal school education department website




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[jbond197]

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[CorporateAffairs]

I have data of all most all surveys conducted in 2014

CSDS January(only seemandhra)

YSRCP 41% TDP 28%

Cvoter February (whole andhra)

YSRCP 25% with 58% in Rayalseema
TDP 22%(TDP will be lower in andhra since it has support in Tlgana)

AC Nielsen January

YSRCP 22 seats(whole andhra),but they will get only from seemandhra,co they are sweeping SA

TDP is dead in Telangana now. Similarly Congress will be killed and decimated in Andhra, for 20 years to come, atleast.

You dont understand one thing. Jagan party and TDP will fight it out.

All congress votes will now go to TDP, educated and urban voters will not vote for jagan as hes a corrupt monster.

Yes, rayalaseema jagan will sweep almopst all the assembly seats.

There are 27 seats in SA now. TDP is expected to win atleast 10-12 and remaining to jagan party.

Congress candidates will lose deposits, infact congress wont find candidates to contest.

Let BJP come to power and AAP in the opposition. Congress can ----. I like AAP because its the first party that's trying to be a national player without adding the same dacoits from other parties.

AAP will max win 7-10 seats all over India.

Lok sabha is not delhi assembly.



Kejriwal in the dock as Nitin Gadkari files defamation suit against him.

BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday filed a criminal defamation complaint before a court against former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly defaming him by including his name in the Aam Aadmi Party's list of "India's most corrupt".

The petition came up for hearing before Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha who asked Gadkari to record his statement in support of his complaint. After Gadkari's statement, the court also recorded the testimony of a witness, advocate Neeraj who appeared before the magistrate to back the BJP leader's complaint.

Following recording of the statements, the court posted the matter on February 22 for hearing arguments on the plea for summoning Kejriwal as an accused. "I will hear the arguments on February 22," the magistrate said. In his petition filed through senior advocate Pinky Anand and advocate Ajay Digpaul, Gadkari claimed that Kejriwal had levelled "false, baseless, scandalous and defamatory statements" against him which had lowered his dignity in the eyes of the public.

Such false, baseless, scandalous, fabricated and defamatory statements have been made with the ulterior motive and wrongful intent to malign and tarnish the image of the complainant and the same constitutes the offence of defamation under section 499 IPC, punishable under section 500 IPC," it said.

Gadkari also alleged that Kejriwal had "deliberately tried to malign" his image though "he is not involved in any wrongful or corrupt act." "The news circulated and published on the basis of statements made by Kejriwal is per se defamatory and scandalous. He has deliberately released/published the aforesaid list of India's most corrupt mentioning the name of the complainant in a grossly irresponsible manner," he said.

 

[CorporateAffairs]

The Self-decimation of Congress across India.

The Andhra leaders with their own calculations to be in power and good looks of the high command, have allowed the situation to deteriorate to present state by being silent when it is necessary to register their protests and work against the division with all their force, are now becoming unemployed politically for rest of their lives as this decision of congress to go ahead with the division of Andhra Pradesh makes them.

This is now belatedly recognized by the senior leaders of Andhra Congress leaders. Now there is no way but to suffer unemployment politically. They have to play second fiddle to Jagan if they want to continue with the Congress.
By going forward with the division of Andhra Pradesh insensitively and un-democratically, the congress has laid the seed to decimate the Congress in both Andhra and Telangana regions in exchange for a few parliament seats.

This is not the first time the congress has done so. In the 1970s the congress has formed alliance alternatively with one or the other of Dravidian parties in Tamilnadu and allowed itself to be inconsequential in Assembly by donating major MLA seats to the Dravidian parties neglecting the protests of its state leaders. Now the Congress exists there only for name sake. It willingly reduced to this pathetic state in exchange for few parliament seats. Now state leaders are just servants without any citizens' support.

In Kerala it is always a coalition alternatively. In Karnataka the present chief minister is a former strong JD(S) leader. How much he can help Congress in ensuing elections to parliament is any one's guess. But for corruption in top BJP leadership of the state Congress might not have won recent assembly elections and form its government, of course under a non-Congress person till recently. Karnataka is lost to Janata party 1980s. And that situation is continuing till date.

In Andhra Pradesh it is getting tradition support with majority number of MP seats and the recent government formation has been possible only because of large number of wins from Andhra Pradesh. With this Telangana bungling it now became a secondary or tertiary force after Jagan party in Andhra region and after TRS in Telengana region. How many seats it can get under the understanding from these regional parties headed by corrupt politicians is difficult to predict. Thus now it decimated itself in Andhra Pradesh region.

In Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chttisgadh, Uttarkhand, Assam it is alternating between Congress and state opposition parties or BJP.

In Maharashtra it is playing second fiddle to Pawar congress. But for alliance with Pawar, who questioned the foreign origin of the tallest person and broke away, the congress is not a force on its own.

In Gujarat anyway it is dead. Rajastan congress faces decimation. Next assembly elections may bring BJP back. Punjab is lost to Akalidal-BJP combination alternatively. Kashmir is a coalition with National Conference. UP, Bihaa and Puducherry are lost to the regional parties long time back.

Congress made itself inconsequential by its management in these states. Didi now owns Bengal and BJD orissa. It is interesting to note that considerable number of opposition state chief ministers are Congress men a decade back or some even till recently.

Arunachal Pradesh is sympathetic to congress. Tripura is always CPM strong-hold because of its able chief minister Manik Sircar. In Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Miijoram it is coalition.

Thus with its arrogant and insensitive and un-democratic functioning both at party and at government level the Congress decimated itself gradually in various states and is now making vain effort to get some seats in Andhra Pradesh by dividing the prosperous state in company with selfish, narrow-minded, corrupt and uncultured and uncivilized leaders and parties.

Now, its a matter of time Congress is routed out from India.

 

[deckingraj]

AAP will max win 7-10 seats all over India.
Lok sabha is not delhi assembly.

The point is not about how many seats AAP will win...Point is will AAP stop BJP from winning...Look the reason these corrupt congressi allowed delhi government to function even for 1 day was to put them as a front against BJP...Congress very well know they will be decimated in this elections...the only thing they are working day in and day out is to restrict BJP onslaught...and AAP works perfectly in that aspect....

To be honest with you....i feel Kejriwal and likes(including Anna by supporting Mamta) are doing a big favor to congress and will end up hurting India big time...India desperately needs a very sound and stable government and like it or not apart from Modi we don't have any other option at this stage...this situation is unfortunate but this is the reality...I will once again request all the Indian voters here to things holistically before they push that voting button...India first should be the mantra!!!

 

[Marxist]

Congi's allied with Laloo have no moral right to question Yeddy

 

[Puchtoon]

The point is not about how many seats AAP will win...Point is will AAP stop BJP from winning...Look the reason these corrupt congressi allowed delhi government to function even for 1 day was to put them as a front against BJP...Congress very well know they will be decimated in this elections...the only thing they are working day in and day out is to restrict BJP onslaught...and AAP works perfectly in that aspect....

To be honest with you....i feel Kejriwal and likes(including Anna by supporting Mamta) are doing a big favor to congress and will end up hurting India big time...India desperately needs a very sound and stable government and like it or not apart from Modi we don't have any other option at this stage...this situation is unfortunate but this is the reality...I will once again request all the Indian voters here to things holistically before they push that voting button...India first should be the mantra!!!

If aap wins 7-10(equal to 70 to 100 delhi assembly seats) seats,it will damage bjp in other 40's ,Gone case ,hung assembly with aap+congress+third front will do thier BS as in delhi

 

[Puchtoon]

How handpicked experts like Arvind Panagariya, Ravi Mantha are helping Narendra Modi fine-tune his 2014 poll strategy
By SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, ET Bureau | 19 Feb, 2014, 06.44AM IST
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ET has learnt the big idea being debated now is for Modi to make 24X7 power supply for Indians the centrepiece of his economic pitch.

NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi's high-octane, highly visible election campaign hides a quiet but equally intense effort - his increasingly frequent interactions with a handpicked group of intellectuals, opinion-makers and policy experts. This months-long and continuing engagement is now focused on three things: a big idea, a big speech and a big document.

Among those Modi and his core team are regularly interacting with are Columbia University professor Arvind Panagariya, ex-Fidelity Investments guru Ravi Mantha, Centre for Policy Research member Bibek Debroy and Manish Sabharwal, head of TeamLease.

Jagdish Bhagwati is an "inspirer" and a counter-icon to Amartya Sen, but Panagariya is the overseas-based academic whose inputs are sought regularly.

There are more experts Modi's team is in regular touch with and on some areas, such as national security, the team is close to identifying a main advisor.

Advisors, officials and others directly involved in this aspect of Modi's 2014 election strategy did not wish to speak to ET. Other people familiar with this effort, who spoke to ET, did so on the condition they not be identified.

ET has learnt the big idea being debated now is for Modi to make 24X7 power supply for Indians the centrepiece of his economic pitch. "24X7 power supply for all will be for Modi what the Golden Quadrilateral was for (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee," a person with detailed knowledge of these deliberations said, adding that Modi's strategy team thinks this pitch has both "popular resonance and the makings of a genuine, workable policy".

Intense Debate Over 'Big' Speech

The big speech, ET has learnt, has been a matter for intense debate among academics and policy experts advising Modi as well as among the BJP PM candidate's political core team. The speech, another person said, will be aimed to showcase Modi's policy vision - "easily understood policy changes that connect with voters but that are not just populist", that's how this person described the broad idea behind the speech.

Modi is learnt to have said the venue and the date should be such that it has maximum impact on a national audience given possible election schedules. An earlier idea of a January big speech was rejected as being too early, this person said, and the January 19 BJP national executive speech was "not the big speech". An end-February date is being debated, but "nothing is final yet", the person said.

The big document, ET has learnt, is a separate exercise from BJP's manifesto, which is a parallel exercise. Team Modi's current thinking is that the document should be around 50 pages and "should be clear and provide workable goals".

Another person, closely involved in making the document, said "work on this is continuing at a fast pace, with plenty of back-and-forth between Modi and his advisors". The timing of the big speech and the release of the document are linked, this person said.

This close interaction with academics is, another person said, a "new thing for Modi". "His background and political evolution did not make him a natural fit with intellectuals and academic types," said a person who's observed Modi closely.

This person said there was a "culture misfit on both sides when the interaction started", but over time, "Modi has begun to get along well with a diverse range of academics".

"He's a patient, careful listener," one person said, adding "he always wants experts to distill a point down to basics." "He will say 'I don't understand', and expects you to make a point in a way that he can use in a campaign speech." "He can call you at 12 midnight to discuss an issue," another person said. "There was a 9-hour meeting once, and a big presentation was made, his attention didn't waver once," this person recalled. Many interactions between Modi and his advisors are over email. "He has a cyber-savvy team around him and he's very email-friendly," one person said. There have been meetings in Gandhinagar as well.

Different teams have met Modi and the core team on different issues. "Not everyone of his advisors know when he's meeting whom (and) for what. It's (on a) need-to-know basis," another person told ET. "Sometimes, he takes different inputs from different people on the same subject."

This person also said Modi's emphasis on economics "is constant". "He has no academic training in the subject, but he's learnt through experience," he said. "Experiential learners generally ask sharp questions of those with academic rigour," this person said.

"Modi's thinking on industry has now shifted from concentrating on big investors to entrepreneurs...from India Inc to India Unincorporatated," another person said. "This is partly a matter of election rhetoric strategy and partly a matter of his thinking evolving," he said. "His campaign pitch is to tell voters they are entrepreneurial and they need good policies...big industry will be talked down." This person also said Modi's message to industry will be "indirect".

Recognising the importance of chief ministers is another of Modi's policy priorities. One person said, "He has said that having been a CM he knows how chief ministers can be treated by the Centre."

How handpicked experts like Arvind Panagariya, Ravi Mantha are helping Narendra Modi fine-tune his 2014 poll strategy - The Economic Times

 

[CorporateAffairs]

The point is not about how many seats AAP will win...Point is will AAP stop BJP from winning...Look the reason these corrupt congressi allowed delhi government to function even for 1 day was to put them as a front against BJP...Congress very well know they will be decimated in this elections...the only thing they are working day in and day out is to restrict BJP onslaught...and AAP works perfectly in that aspect....

To be honest with you....i feel Kejriwal and likes(including Anna by supporting Mamta) are doing a big favor to congress and will end up hurting India big time...India desperately needs a very sound and stable government and like it or not apart from Modi we don't have any other option at this stage...this situation is unfortunate but this is the reality...I will once again request all the Indian voters here to things holistically before they push that voting button...India first should be the mantra!!!

AAP can only demolish Congress and other parties. BJP votes are intact. They can max decrease the majority of BJP candidates. Plz dont forget that AAP hasnt made any dent in BJP vote bank in Delhi.

The same could be repeated in other states.

Recent poll says, AAP is gaining congress votes in Haryana. But not BJP vote.

If BJP declared Dr saab 6 months earlier, BJP would have secured comfy majority in Delhi. LK is not the case to be.

Too much of dissection is dangerous

If aap wins 7-10(equal to 70 to 100 delhi assembly seats) seats,it will damage bjp in other 40's ,Gone case ,hung assembly with aap+congress+third front will do thier BS as in delhi

Third front is again BOOSTER for BJP. As it would collapse in 1-2 yrs and then BJP would win 300 seats by its own

Congi's allied with Laloo have no moral right to question Yeddy

High court gave him a clean chit. There ends the matter. For god sake, plz dont respond to trolls.

 

[Jason bourne]

AAP can only demolish Congress and other parties. BJP votes are intact. They can max decrease the majority of BJP candidates. Plz dont forget that AAP hasnt made any dent in BJP vote bank in Delhi.

The same could be repeated in other states.

Recent poll says, AAP is gaining congress votes in Haryana. But not BJP vote.

If BJP declared Dr saab 6 months earlier, BJP would have secured comfy majority in Delhi. LK is not the case to be.

Too much of dissection is dangerous



Third front is again BOOSTER for BJP. As it would collapse in 1-2 yrs and then BJP would win 300 seats by its own



High court gave him a clean chit. There ends the matter. For god sake, plz dont respond to trolls.

The congress vote which otherwise going to bjp will go into AAP this will effect bjp in few seats ...

 

[Puchtoon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/436017959010455552

The congress vote which otherwise going to bjp will go into AAP this will effect bjp in few seats ...

The good thing is people may get excited when some drama happens but i don't think so they will affect much except in delhi NCR.

If delhi elections are held post GE,which its looks like,favors bjp.

Keep good winnable candidates is must

 

[Roybot]

More achievements of useless Congress party. If if was upto them, they would make all of India as dumb as their leader Rahul aka Pappu Gandhi.

Meanwhile in Gujarat under Modi.

 

[deckingraj]

AAP can only demolish Congress and other parties. BJP votes are intact. They can max decrease the majority of BJP candidates. Plz dont forget that AAP hasnt made any dent in BJP vote bank in Delhi.
The same could be repeated in other states.
Recent poll says, AAP is gaining congress votes in Haryana. But not BJP vote.
If BJP declared Dr saab 6 months earlier, BJP would have secured comfy majority in Delhi. LK is not the case to be.
Too much of dissection is dangerous

That(Bold aprt) is myopic view my friend....Look in any electoral there are two kind of voters...Loyal to parties irrespective of the situation...neutral voters...it is this neutral voters that decides the fate of elections...whatever side they swing that side wins!!...

BJP vote share in last elections was not enough to win them 200+ seats...in other words if BJP has to win seats they desperately need voters who sided with congress/others last time....This is where AAP can hit them hard. Look at Delhi..even though BJP was the largest party they were not able to win majority...the reason was AAP shared the anti-incumbency vote of congress...Now replicate this scenario in all over India especially North India...this is the place where BJP is strongest and AAP has relevance...So threat from AAP is not empty...that's why i said Kejriwal's and Anna's are doing biggest disservice to nation by going/supporting parties for LS elections...as they can't achieve anything apart from denting the stability of next government....which will be disastrous for India...

 

[Roybot]

The Reality of Rahul Pappu Gandhi's 12 gas cylinders. Its nothing but a whole lot of hot gas.

 

[Bhai Zakir]

Cracks in BJP show as leaders skip state BJP President Vijay Goel meet

State in-charge Prabhat Jha, organizational secy Vijay Sharma, MLA from Tughlaqabad Ramesh Bidhuri, among others, were absent from the meeting.

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Cracks in BJP show as leaders skip Vijay Goel meet - The Economic Times

NEW DELHI: In an embarrassing no-show that revealed the cracks in Delhi BJP, most of the leaders, including BJP legislative party leader Harsh Vardhan and BJP veteran V K Malhotra, stayed away from the first meeting called by state chief Vijay Goel to discuss Lok Sabha candidates and the party's campaign plan.

State in-charge Prabhat Jha, organizational secretary Vijay Sharma, MLA from Tughlaqabad Ramesh Bidhuri, among others, were absent from the meeting. The low attendance signals that state leaders are rapidly running out of patience with the BJP high command's dilly-dallying over naming a replacement for Goel, who was recently elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. Of the 24-member committee, only 16 turned up for the meeting.

Interestingly, most of them had attended the 'poll-khol' dharna at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday morning. "It was a hectic day for party leaders. Most of them had told me that they wouldn't be able to attend the meeting due to prior commitments,'' said Goel. But a senior leader claimed that most members were informed about the meeting just a day in advance and were not informed about the agenda.

In the meeting, which lasted over one-and-a-half-hours, the committee took decisions related to preparation for LS polls. "We will be appointing an in-charge for each parliamentary constituency. All party members, including sitting MLAs, will be considered for LS tickets. Winnability will be the only criterion for selecting candidates," said Goel.

But senior leaders say that decisions taken in the meeting are inconsequential, as the strategy for Lok Sabha elections will be worked out only after a new chief is appointed - the announcement is likely soon.

Goel's decision to hold an election committee meeting had surprised many, as he had recently told party members that Tuesday's dharna will be his last event as state chief.

With time running out, the demand for a new party chief is getting louder as ongoing campaigns like 'ek note kamal par vote' have taken a beating due to lack of monitoring.

But due to lack of consensus over who will replace Goel, the decision has been on hold for long. While there are many contenders for the post, Harsh Vardhan is the front-runner. The national leadership is also considering names of Alok Kumar, considered to be close to the Rashtriya Swayamswak Sangh, and BJP vice-president and councillor from Janakpuri, Ashish Sood.

Cracks in BJP show as leaders skip Goel meet - The Times of India

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Cracks in BJP show as leaders skip Vijay Goel meet - The Economic Times


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Cracks in BJP show as leaders skip Vijay Goel meet - The Economic Times