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‘Will win 150 seats’: Rahul Gandhi's prediction for Congress in MP election

Gandhi addressed the media after the party's 'election preparedness meet' in Delhi, attended by top Congress leaders, including party chief Mallikarjun Kharge.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday predicted that the party will win 150 out of 230 seats in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly election later this year. “Karnataka election result will be repeated in Madhya Pradesh,” Gandhi told reporters after the party’s meeting on election preparedness.

“We had a detailed meeting just now, and our internal assessment indicates that after securing 136 seats in Karnataka, we are now projected to win 150 seats in Madhya Pradesh,” Gandhi said, as quoted by news agency ANI.

In a video shared by ANI, when asked about the Congress party’s chief ministerial candidate for Madhya Pradesh, Gandhi chose not to provide a direct answer but emphasised the party’s goal of winning 150 seats.

Kamal Nath who served as the state chief minister during Congress’ short-lived government in the state between 2018 and 2020, said, “We discussed the strategy and the issues on which the party should contest these polls. We are all of the opinion that we will enter the poll fray unitedly.”

Preparing for upcoming elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh

Besides Rahul Gandhi, Kamal Nath, Digvijay Singh, and AICC general secretary KC Venugopal, met party chief Mallikarjun Kharge to discuss the upcoming assembly election in the state.

According to news agency PTI, Rajasthan Congress leaders were also slated to convene in Delhi, including chief minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot.

Both Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are set to hold elections by the end of this year. Currently, Rajasthan is under the governance of the Congress party, led by Ashok Gehlot, while Madhya Pradesh is governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with Shivraj Singh Chouhan serving as the chief minister.

Congress promises for Madhya Pradesh

Congress, last week released a list of ‘five promises’ to the people of Madhya Pradesh ahead of the assembly election:

1. Gas cylinder at ₹500

2. ₹1500 to every woman per month

3. 100 units of free electricity, 200 units halved

4. Farm loan waiver

5. Implementation of old pension scheme

Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh had earlier said that Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath is poised to be the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming 2023 assembly election.

The assembly polls are expected to take place at the end of the year. In the 2018 elections, the Congress emerged as the largest party and formed government under Nath’s leadership. But in 2020, Nath was forced to resign after his government was reduced to minority due to resignation of 23 Congress MLAs owing allegiance to Jyotiraditya Scindia. The BJP later formed the government under Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

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googletrends-blog · 6 years

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Karnataka Government Formation Live Updates: BJP Reaching Out To Our MLAs, Claim Congress, JDS

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Congress and JD(S) have reached an understanding on a post-poll tie-up in Karnataka

New Delhi/Bengaluru: With the election results throwing a fractured mandate in Karnataka and both the BJP and the JD(S)-Congress combine staking claim, all eyes are now on Governor Vajubhai Vala who will decide whom to invite to form the next government. The BJP that emerged the single largest party is…

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shararsblog · 3 years

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BENGALURU - INDIA'S CRIME CAPITAL.

(28/07/2021)

Greetings for the day. Here I am beginning with my first blog or post whatever you can say. To begin with let's straight away come to the point. Many blogs have been written till date, with each blogger expressing his heart and mind on various issues. So I am too putting my heart and soul into a subject, which is present throughout the world, and each country has its own law policy when it comes to dealing with i.e. crime.

Here are my experiences of living in a city based in Karnataka in India for four months. Bangalore or Bengaluru as you can call it, is considered as the IT hub of India, a city from where United States of America sources the highest number of software professionals for working in projects in its own backyard. But apart from being the Information technology hub of India, Bengaluru is also the hub for highest number of crimes, along with New Delhi.

Though I have stayed in Pune too a city in neighbouring Maharashtra state another IT hub, and visited Mumbai which is close by, but never ever had this fear psychosis of happening to see gang wars, because the law and order machinery in Pune, Pimpri - Chinchwad and Mumbai was by far very much in control by police authorities there. So why Bengaluru has become lawless? during my four months of stay there, every morning I happen to open the newspapers and the Bengaluru section showed up at least one or two murders, the result being gang wars. The killers regular criminals and their victims also history sheeter's. These gangsters or rowdies carried on with their killings on the streets of Bengaluru with so much audacity, that they never possessed any fear of law. The recent killing of Joseph Babli who himself a rowdy inside a bank in Koramangala, highlights the brazenness of killers, that Joseph was chased inside the bank, and hacked to death in broad daylight in front of scores of customers and bank employees, goes on to show complete failure of law and order machinery in Bengaluru.

Not just this, another murder of a former corporator Rekha Kadiresh that too in broad daylight in cotton pet area of Bengaluru, was an added feather in hat for an inefficient Bengaluru police. Slaying rivals in daytime in full public view, indulging in rowdism, road rage, harrasing innocent people, chain snatching gangs over bikes on prowl in every area, So where is the Bengaluru police in picture, that is the question?

And why rowdies in Bengaluru have no fear of police?

Bengaluru police and Karnataka politicians are to be blamed for this. The answer here lies in police - criminal - politician nexus. Also you may be surprised to know that Karnataka state ranks top in corruption index in whole of India. Power hungry politicians, greed for money and coupled with it the biggest major factor which has led to rise in goondaism is land deals. Bengaluru city is considered as one of hot cakes for real estate market, land grabbing is rampant and where higher acre's of land is involved for deals corrupt politicians, mafias and police are hand in glove.

Though land is very less available in Bengaluru urban areas and even if available, the prices are skyrocket and rowdies ultimately with blessings of politicians get involved. This rowdies - karnataka politicians nexus have blossomed to such an extent, that middle class families, who despite can afford to own plots at higher prices never dare to get involved. The problem begins from the bottom of organizational hierarchy in police department. The rot is so deeper that for example, say five out of every ten constabulary rank officials within Bengaluru police force, are hand in glove with the rowdies, this relates to daily hafta collection or in simple language extort money through these rowdies from hawkers, bar restaurant owners, share in commission arising out of disputed land deals and many illegal activities done by these rowdies. The buck does not stop here, the Bengaluru traffic police have a set target of collection fixed by every DCPs in their respective zones, so regular office goers either in two wheelers, four wheelers, rickshaws, commercial vehicles face the brunt of hafta collection. What an irony! Never ever in the history of Policing across the world, has there been so much rampant corruption, as has been the case with Bangalore police.

Kamal Pant Bengaluru police chief : completely clueless.

But then whose responsibility is it to discipline the Police?

Karnataka is a state, which has seen two parties struggle for power, back in 2018 Congress - JDS (Janata Dal secular) combine wrestled power from BJP (Bharatiya Janata party) headed by BS Yeddyurappa. Kumaraswamy son of former prime minister Deve Gowda became the chief minister, the BJP despite being the single largest party could not garner the numbers required to form the government. But two years later the tide turned completely in BJP's favour, the biggest drama unfolded in Karnataka, with accusations of horse trading leveled by Congress - JDS combine against BJP. The Kumaraswamy govt was reduced to a minority, and it failed to retain power. The BS Yeddyurappa led BJP stormed to power in Karnataka. Power tussles are nothing new in Indian politics, but the sad part is the lust for power has taken a huge toll on law and order machinery in Bengaluru. The Karnataka politicians already neck deep in corruption, have left the city to rot at the mercy of rowdies. Another major factor for rise in hooliganism is the patronage provided by political parties to rowdies, take any party be it the Congress, the BJP or JDS have rowdies seated at their party offices, the favour these goons do for these political class may vary, it may be anything even getting a cup of tea for the party youth leaders or district incharge, distribution of pamplets during elections many other things and obviously the favour is returned, with blessings of these political parties rowdies have a say, in every tender issued by the Karnataka government, almost 99% of contracts sourced out by the local corporation body of Bengaluru i.e. the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has been handed over to rowdies, whether related to garbage collection, disposal, road repair contracts etc. When elections are round the corner, the hooliganism is at its peak, these very leaders are accompanied by these rowdies, threatening people who raise their voices, gangwars involving rowdies from rival political parties, if an in-depth analysis is done of the extent of criminals invasion into political parties, shocking as it may sound close to 80% of these so called party workers are rowdy elements. As it is said, the strong basis for students to pass with good marks in school and later to excel in life and become ideal citizens of the country, the onus lies on the principal and teachers and the education imparted in schools getting students to value good culture, respect for one another, and focus on studies. If one or two students fail in all these aspects, the blame can be put on students themselves, but just imagine if the whole class fails, then obviously the principal, the teachers are responsible. So the same applies to the police force of a state as well, the police department is a big school in itself, and the chief minister of the state is the principal and teachers his respective cabinet colleagues, so they are the torch bearers for these law enforcement agencies, and giving them guidance drafting policies is the sole responsibility of chief minister his cabinet colleagues. But here the entire Bengaluru police machinery has failed miserably and politicians governing the state are solely responsible.

BJP has been at the helm of Karnataka for almost two years now, even in these two years chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and his home minister colleague Basavraj Bommai miserably failed to bring crime rate down in Bengaluru. What can you expect from a police force, when the chief minister himself is embroiled in an illegal land deal. The bench of Karnataka high court led by justice Ravi malimath and Micheal Cunha even refused to give him any relief on the matter. Also infighting within the state BJP, and some leaders unhappy with Yeddyurappa's style of functioning has led to the CM busy trying to save his own govt, fighting his detractors, leave development of state at God's mercy and Bengaluru of course at rowdies mercy. And finally infighting within the BJP took its toll, Mr. BS Yeddyurappa resigned from the CMs post. And as usual came the drama with his resignation, an emotional Yeddyurappa in tears thanking Prime minister Modi, Amit Shah and JP Nadda for giving him an opportunity to serve the people of the state. Mr. Yeddyurappa we can understand your emotions but you should have stopped at that, your immature and misleading comment that, "Bengaluru is turning into a world class city" is the biggest Joke of the millennium. The reality is you and your predecessor Mr. Kumaraswamy have turned Bengaluru into a world class gangsters city.

Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa : equally responsible for lawless Bengaluru.

Corruption in police department is not something new and is prevalent across India. Also let me make it clear, not all cops are corrupt, there are a few who put their heart out and perform their duties. Even in Bengaluru police department there are officers at constabulary rank, inspectors, senior inspectors, who have excellent track record in curbing crime and have acted tough against rowdies but there are also a few with questionable track record and it is this few dark sheep within the police that has led to rowdies wrecking havoc in the city. Also this time things really aren't good in Bengaluru at all. Though police chief Pant on his behalf is doing everything thing to bring crime rate down, Bengaluru CCB has siezed a large cache of drugs, several drug peddlers have been nabbed, several rowdies homes have been raided a large cache of weopans recovered, but still the rowdies menace has been increasing in Bengaluru rapidly.

Mr Kamal Pant now you also need to bring the hammer down harder on some of your own men, women within the force, who have links with these rowdies. Cleaning must also be done at home. There was a time when Mumbai city in Maharashtra state, also known as the financial capital of India was under the grip of the underworld gangs in 90s, things had totally spiralled out of control due to gangwars, prominent builders, film personalities, small time business men became victims for refusal to pay extortion and some for links with rival gangs.

It took the combined effort of the Mumbai police who formed hit squads later on called as encounter specialists to eliminate the gangsters. And the credit for completely wiping out the underworld from Mumbai, goes to then Mumbai police commissioner Mr. MN Singh. Bengaluru is facing the same problem today, that Mumbai faced in 90s. And Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant will have to take a leaf from what MN Singh did in Mumbai.

Also political interference in police working has been the biggest problem in India. That police work under political pressure is not a hidden secret. And this has been one of the reasons for rowdy explosion in Bengaluru. Rowdies enjoy political patronage, from all three the Congress, JDS and BJP. In Mumbai the police turned a deaf year to political influence, and took on underworld in a spirited way under guidance of MN Singh. Certainly Bengaluru police go weak in their knees when it comes to politicians, and none but Mr Kamal Pant will have to put his foot down on such interferences, when it comes to dealing with rowdies, even if it means confrontation with a ruling party and also take action against political leaders who are linked to these rowdies. Kamal Pant and Bengaluru police have a long long way to go if they want to rid Bengaluru from gangsters. And I have no doubt at all that things have come to a level where Bengaluru cops have to form a separate hit squad to eliminate the rowdies like Mumbai police did.

Also Bengaluru being an IT hub and one of the cities with higher number of foreign tourists visiting for trips as well as official company work, such lawlessness does not augur well for the city, the image of Bengaluru has already taken a severe beating at international level and it will have severe consequences. Foreign direct investment will be hit, if things don't improve, that day won't be far when other countries start issuing advisory or warning to its citizens to deter from visiting Bengaluru, as it has already happened in New Delhi's case, and if it happens in Bengaluru's case prime minister Narendra Modi's 'ache din' or 'good days' of his promise to citizens of India will be dented beyond repair.

#bengaluru #kamal pant #karnataka #bs yeddyurappa #karnataka bjp #bengaluru police #hd kumaraswamy #congress #bangalore #narendra modi

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FC Barcelona and the Indian National Congress: The uncanny resemblance

The following is a piece by Anunay Chowdhury. Anunay is a second-year student of Law at King’s College London.

Perhaps this is the strangest analogy that you would read today. FC Barcelona and Indian National Congress do not have any substantial similarity but, atypically, two of the most prominent organizations in their respective fields have much more in common than one would expect. The exit of a brilliant Brazilian player, Neymar in 2015 made Barcelona vulnerable and has been witnessing some of the most embarrassing moments in the club’s modern history. On the other side, the Indian National Congress is barely keeping up in the wake of Bhartiya Janta Party’s dominance in the national scene. A closer look at two organizations, who operate in two very distinct professions may reveal a similar flaw.

The recent headlines have put the Grand Old Party on a very fragile tactical ground. After the episodes in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, Indian National Congress is trying to salvage whatever remains of its minuscule repute in the state of Rajasthan. Sachin Pilot, a next-gen leader of the Indian National Congress and has been rumoured to be in direct conflict with local state leadership. He had single-handedly helped INC win the Rajasthan state elections in 2018. In 2015, INC only won on 21 seats out 200 in Rajasthan. The number increased to 100 seats in the 2018 election. Post his absence from the state Indian National Congress meeting; he has been dishonourably relieved from his duty as the INC Rajasthan President. As a mitigating response, the party leadership has called all the MLAs to gather in a fancy resort to contain the horse-trading from the other side – somehow the epistemology of this idea always escapes me. There were widespread rumours that Sachin Pilot was denied CMship in 2018 after the so-called resurgence of the Indian National Congress in the national scene after the near-lethal drubbing of INC after the 2014 national and state election.

The story of FC Barcelona of 2019, however coincidently, mirrors the near demise of Indian National Congress in the Indian political landscape. The FC Barcelona is the 2nd biggest club in the world by revenue - 2nd only to the national rival Real Madrid. Despite having, inarguably, the best player in the history of football, FC Barcelona has only been consistent in their dreary and insipid football. Under their former manager Pep Guardiola, FC Barcelona played one of the best football and embraced much of the identity for which they were known till date. The oozing display of possession and creativity has now decayed into relentless horizontal passing with no intent to threaten the opposing side. Almost all of their offensive movement goes through Lionel Messi, who in his day can still manage to outperform all the of the rest of the players on the field. Managers still fail to draw tactics to contain a single player in a game of 22. Lionel Messi has been, for the past two years, in a Super-Saiyan mode and has been dragging Barcelona alone. But the miracle-man still plays a team game, despite creating havoc on the field, the rules of the game remain the same – one who scores more will win. The ageing squad of FC Barcelona and dystopian management is at the core of the problem. Messi is himself 32, and he has to respect the biological limit of his body. Eight of the 20-player squad is above the age of 30. On average, 5 of the ten outfield players in a match are above the age of 30. The team does not have a classical wing player and depends on newly promoted 18-year-old Ansu Fati for occasional help. The team often seems confused and static and depend only on Lionel Messi to produce an opening for an attack. The management has spent more than 800 million pounds after the exit of the star player Neymar. Amidst the race to replace Neymar, FC Barcelona nearly killed the career of Phillipe Coutinho who joined Barcelona on the premise of winning big trophies. He has, since then, seen his former club, Liverpool FC, win everything that he was meant to win at FC Barcelona.

The ageing squad has run out of ideas, strength and passion for competing at a higher level. The manager seems reluctant to preclude ageing players due to their enormity of stature in the team. Management is disinclined to allow youth players into the first team. There seems to be a kind of hegemony of older players which undermines the managerial authority in the team selection process. Imbecilic man-management lead to expenditure on players that do not fit the requirement of the team. Barcelona is often seen succumbing to the pressure by other teams if they press high or lay deep back in defence. It only exposes off the field leadership in the hierarchy of players.

In short, Barcelona does not inspire confidence among fans, like me, that they can compete with the likes of Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Liverpool and Real Madrid. As long as they are dependent on just one man supplemented with their boring and dull tactics, lack of speed on the wings, midfielders not having freedom and creativity to anchor attacks, Barcelona is doing just everything to fall into oblivion like AC Milan and Manchester United. Fans have nothing but to sporadically orgasm on historical achievements of the club.

That surely rings a bell. The story of the Indian National Congress is the same. The recent ousting of Sachin Pilot from the Rajasthan state wing of the Indian National Congress has been linked to the weakened relations with the current Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot. Some political analyst speculates that the souring relationship is due to the growing prominence of Sachin Pilot in the Rajasthan cadre of the Indian National Congress. Ashok Gehlot felt threatened due to diminishing prospect of his son growing in the ranks of the Indian National Congress in Rajasthan. Previously, Ashok Gehlot’s push to favour his son for the post of Rajasthan Cricket Association had created a concern for the local leaders of the party[1]. This is not the first time we have seen that despotic top tier party members exercise influence over the party decisions resulting in neglecting deserving candidates.

In recent times, the progression of the local leaders to the higher posts in the party has become a big concern. Much of the consternation is due to the power-hungry party veteran that does not let grassroot-workers to climb up the ladder. Former spokesperson of the party Sanjay Jha had penned the same concern in recent columns in Times of India. Instead of introspection, party discharged Sanjay Jha of his duties. He grew very critical of the lack of transparency in the internal party matters[2]. As for the matter of corroboration, he further wrote that his colleagues in the party expressed appreciation that he raised a very pertinent issue but simultaneously was left aghast by the lack of public support[3].

The leadership vacuum is another major problem. It emanates explicitly from the fact that Rahul Gandhi does not understand politics – plain and simple. Recklessness aside, BJP installed LCD TVs in the remotest of the areas in West Bengal during the Covid-19 pandemic for Amit Shah’s virtual rally for the upcoming West Bengal state elections. As against, Rahul Gandhi uploaded a video on Facebook critiquing Modi’s policies only to realise that around 70% of the voters in the elections do not have access to Facebook. Some student in 2017 wrote to Guinness Book of World Record to enlist Rahul Gandhi as the man who lost most elections [4]. He assumed the responsibility of the President in 2017 from his mother, Sonia Gandhi. After the 2019 Lok Sabha election, as Salman Khan would choke on 21st-century film-making after watching likes of Inception, Rahul Gandhi could barely fathom the enormity of the loss. As a response, Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post of President and submitted the letter of resignation to his mother, who has since taken charge instead. Initially, Sonia Gandhi was reluctant to accept the resignation but accepted it eventually. Rahul Gandhi was projected as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Indian National Congress. The man has not held any administrative post in his entire life and managed to lose his constituency of Amethi, Uttar Pradesh was is nearly considered to be the family heirloom of the Gandhi’s. INC won 13 out of the 15 Lok Sabha elections that were held in Amethi before 2019 Lok Sabha election. The seat has been previously held by Rahul Gandhi’s father and mother – Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. These days, the former President of the INC has been reduced to memes and a universal symbol of political comic relief. In the times of alleged historical appropriation by Bhartiya Janta Party, Rahul Gandhi can be seen invoking his great grandfather – Jawaharlal Nehru, advocating on his behalf about the magnificence of his stature and his contribution to building modern India. Rahul Gandhi is nowhere near the acclaim of Jawaharlal Nehru. If resuscitated, Nehru would prefer going back to his grave than to witness the abysmal result of his progeny.

It is not the first time that the politicians are jumping the ships but what is surprising in the case of INC is the level of leadership and how they quit. Jyotiraditya Scindia was not any other leader in the Indian National Congress. He had a firm grip on the central Madhya Pradesh constituencies and had the support of 22 MLA’s while quitting the INC. As the media outlets reported, he grew discontented by the INC leadership or lack of it. Part of leadership is to maintain a close grip on prominent regional leaders and to make sure that their efforts are reciprocated. Despite delivering, Scindia did not feel having an essential role in the Madhya Pradesh government.

Once the beacon of freedom and liberty, the Indian National Congress is now in complete shambles and has been showing every symptom of an imminent implosion. The party has run out of ideas and lacks a democratic structure internally. All the next-gen leaders that were given an early opportunity by the INC, Like Sachin Pilot, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Milind Deora, Priya Dutt and Jitin Prasada seems to have only cemented their resolute against Sonia-Rahul hegemony over INC. The party has no one to blame but itself for its fallout with leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot. Rahul Gandhi is not a leader and can never be a leader, in the race of gladiators; he is merely a loony tune character.

Indian National Congress needs to revamp its internal structure to revive confidence among the party members and local party workers. The party needs a leader with inherent qualities to man-manage the party to march them forward. It is running out of time to be trying to groom and spoon feed a baby adult into believing that he is a leader. The party requires a more liberated federal structure. A fresh approach to reach masses at grassroot level is the need of the hour. If there is any chance for INC to salvage anything before the 2023 election, the time is of the essence. In the period from 1998 till today, INC has had only two presidents irrespective of the result as against Bhartiya Janta Party has had ten presidents in the same period. While the one is a beacon of democratic liberal values and the other one is regarded as a fascist organization. The party has to look beyond the clutches of the Rahul-Sonia leadership. An apposite effort-reward equation has to be set among the party lines, so the deserving candidates have necessary means to prove their mettle. The communication divide between the so-called “High Command” has to be bridged by delegation and more transparency.

FC Barcelona presidentship is up for elections in 2021 with the leading candidate, Victor Font promising a bright project including bringing back Xavi Hernandez, one of the leading squad member of 2011 Barcelona squad and a close apprentice of Pep Guardiola, as the head coach of the team. Xavi promises to bring back the electrifying football of FC Barcelona with particular reliance on youth and academy players. It remains to be seen what Indian National Congress would do to stop leakage of prominent next-gen leaders out of the party. How congress party will approach the 2023 general election would set the tone for the ultimate future of the party.

[1] https://theprint.in/politics/ashok-gehlot-son-rajasthan-cricket-congress/300861/

[2] https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sanjay-jha-removed-as-congress-spokesperson-days-after-he-penned-critical-article-against-party/story-cHG4SZysgjtHKqTt1vWouO.html

[3] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/congressmen-watching-silently-as-party-hurtles-towards-political-obsolescence/

[4] https://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/rahul-gandhi-might-make-it-to-guinness-book-for-losing-27-elections-117032100523_1.html

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No floor test today; Speaker adjourns House till 11 am tomorrow

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Karnataka Assembly trust vote Latest Updates: The floor test will not be held on Thursday as Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar has adjourned the House till 11 am on Friday. Governor Vajubhai Vala earlier the asked Speaker to conduct the trust vote on Thursday itself. In the Assembly, Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa also said, “Even if it is midnight, let the trust vote be held today.”

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sgtechs-in · 6 years

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DK Shivakumar, who is miffed with congress high command

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goldsilverreports · 6 years

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B.S. Yeddyurappa Resigns as Karnataka Chief Minister Ahead of Floor Test

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – B.S. Yeddyurappa Resigns as Karnataka Chief Minister Ahead of Floor Test — Five days after Karnataka delivered a hung verdict in the Assembly elections, a floor test in the secretariat did not materialise as Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa submitted his resignation after delivering an emotional speech in the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat, on Saturday.

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trendingcurrentaffairs · 6 years

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Karnataka Government Formation: Supreme Court tells BJP to face floor test tomorrow; top updates

While the Supreme Court resumed its hearing over the Karnataka government formation, the Congress observed ‘Save Democracy Day’ across the country. Catch all the updates here.

Karnataka Elections Results 2018 » The Supreme Court on Friday held a hearing in the Karnataka government formation matter, directing that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the state’s new chief minister, B S Yeddyurappa, must conduct the floor test on Saturday at 4 pm.

The hearing came after the apex court issued notices to the Karnataka government and BJP’s Yeddyurappa seeking their replies on the plea filed by the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) combine, which has opposed Yeddyurappa’s swearing-in and termed Governor Vajubhai Vala’s decision to invite the BJP to form the government as “unconstitutional”. Meanwhile, the Congress, for its part, observed ‘Save Democracy Day’ today across the country.

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to place before it two communications sent by Yeddyurappa to Governor Vala in which he had staked claim to form the government, saying their perusal was necessary to decide the case. Among these communications to be furnished in court will be the letter of support from newly-elected legislators that Yeddyurappa submitted to the Governor. The Congress has argued that the letter submitted by Yeddyurappa has only 104 signatures, which is clearly short of the majority mark of 112-seats in the 222-member Assembly. The Congress-JD(S) had submitted a letter with 117 signatures.

On Thursday, Governor Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to Yeddyurappa at the Raj Bhavan in a morning ceremony. Vala has told Yeddyurappa to prove within 15 days that he has the majority in the Legislative Assembly. Although the BJP emerged as the single-largest party, winning 104 seats, in the May 12 assembly election, it fell short of eight seats from the 112-halfway mark in the lower House. The Congress trailed behind the saffron party with 78 seats and the regional JD(S) with 37 seats.

At a special pre-dawn hearing, a three-judge Bench of the apex court had rejected a joint writ petition, filed by the Congress and the JD(S) on Wednesday night, to halt the swearing-in of Yeddyurappa as Karnataka chief minister. However, the top court said Yeddyurappa’s swearing-in was subject to the final outcome of the matter before it.

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Karnataka Election Results 2018

S.No. Constituency Candidate Name Political Party 1 Afzalpur MY Patil INC 2 Aland Guttedar Subhash Rukmayya BJP 3 Anekal B Shivanna INC 4 Arabhavi Balachandra Lakshmanarao Jarakiholi BJP 5 Arkalgud AT Ramaswamy (leading) JD(S) 6 Arsikere KM Shivalinge Gowda JD(S) 7 Athani Mahesh Iranagouda Kumathalli INC 8 Aurad Prabhu Chauhan BJP 9 B.T.M.Layout Ramalinga Reddy (leading) BJP 10 Babaleshwar Mallanagoud Basanagoud Patil INC 11 Badami Siddaramaiah INC 12 Bagalkot Veerabhadrayya (Veeranna) Charantimath BJP 13 Bagepalli S.N. Subbareddy (Chinnakayalapalli) INC 14 Bailhongal Koujalagi. Mahantesh. Shivanand INC 15 Ballari Rural (ST) B Nagendra INC 16 Bangalore South M Krishnappa BJP 17 Bangarpet S.N.Narayanaswamy K.M INC 18 Bantval Rajesh Naik U. BJP 19 Basavakalyan B Narayanrao INC 20 Basavana Bagevadi Shivanand Patil INC 21 Basavanagudi Ravisubramanya.L.A BJP 22 Belgaum Dakshin Abhay Patil BJP 23 Belgaum Rural Laxmi R Hebbalkar INC 24 Belgaum Uttar Anil S Benake BJP 25 Bellary City G. Somasekhara Reddy BJP 26 Belthangady Harish Poonja BJP 27 Belur Lingesha. K.S JD(S) 28 Bhadravati B.K.Sangameshwara INC 29 Bhalki Eshwar Khandre INC 30 Bhatkal Sunil Biliya Naik BJP 31 Bidar Rahim Khan INC 32 Bidar South Bandeppa JD(S) 33 Bijapur City Basanagoud R Patil (Yatnal) BJP 34 Bilgi Murugesh Rudrappa Nirani BJP 35 Bommanahalli Sathish Reddy M BJP 36 Byadgi Ballary Virupakshappa Rudrappa BJP 37 Byatarayanapura Krishna Byre Gowda INC 38 Byndoor B. M. Sukumar Shetty BJP 39 C.V. Raman Nagar S. Raghu BJP 40 Challakere (ST) T. Raghumurthy INC 41 Chamaraja L. Nagendra BJP 42 Chamarajanagar C Puttarangashetty INC 43 Chamrajpet B.z. Zameer Ahmed Khan INC 44 Chamundeshwari G.T.Devegowda JD(S) 45 Channagiri K Madalu Virupakshappa BJP 46 Channapatna H D Kumara Swamy JD(S) 47 Chickpet Uday B.Garudachar BJP 48 Chikkaballapur Dr. K. Sudhakar INC 49 Chikkanayakana J.C. Madhu Swamy BJP 50 Chikkodi-Sadalga Ganesh Prakash Hukkeri INC 51 Chikmagalur C T Ravi BJP 52 Chincholi Dr Umesh G Jadhav INC 53 Chintamani J K Krishna Reddy JD(S) 54 Chitradurga G H Thippareddy (Leading) BJP 55 Chittapur Priyank Kharge INC 56 Dasarahalli R.Manjunatha JD(S) 57 Davanagere North S A Ravindranath BJP 58 Davanagere South Shamanur Shivashankarappa INC 59 Devadurga Shivana Gouda Nayak BJP 60 Devanahalli Narayanaswamy L N JD(S) 61 Devar Hippargi Somanagouda B Patil BJP 62 Dharwad Amrut Ayyappa Desai BJP 63 Doddaballapur T Venkataramanaiah INC 64 Gadag Hanamantagouda Krishnagouda Patil INC 65 Gandhi Nagar Dinesh Gundu Rao INC 66 Gangawati Paranna Eshwarappa Munavalli BJP 67 Gauribidanur N.H.Shivashankara Reddy INC 68 Gokak Jarkiholi Ramesh Laxmanrao INC 69 Govindraj Nagar V Somanna BJP 70 Gubbi S R Srinivas (Vasu) JD(S) 71 Gulbarga Dakshin Dattatraya C Patil Revoor Appu Gouda BJP 72 Gulbarga Rural Basawaraj Mattimud BJP 73 Gulbarga Uttar Kaneez Fatima INC 74 Gundlupet C S Niranjan Kumar BJP 75 Gurmitkal Nagangouda Kandkur JD(S) 76 Hadagali (Sc) P. T. Parameshwara Naik INC 77 Hagaribommanahalli (SC) Bheema Naik L.B.P INC 78 Haliyal Deshpande R.V INC 79 Hangal C M Udasi BJP 80 Hanur R Narendra INC 81 Harapanahalli G Karunakara Reddy BJP 82 Harihar S Ramappa INC 83 Hassan Preetham J Gowda BJP 84 Haveri (SC) Neharu Olekar BJP 85 Hebbal Suresh B S INC 86 Heggadadevankote Anil Kumar C INC 87 Hirekerur Basavanagouda Patil INC 88 Hiriyur K POORNIMA BJP 89 Holalkere(S.C) M. Chandrappa BJP 90 Holenarasipur H D Revanna JD(S) 91 Honnali M P Renukacharya BJP 92 Hosadurga Gulihatti D Shekar BJP 93 Hosakote N Nagaraju (MTB) INC 94 Hubli-Dharwad Central Jagadish Shettar BJP 95 Hubli-Dharwad East Abbayya Prasad INC 96 Hubli-Dharwad West Arvind Bellad BJP 97 Hukkeri Umesh Vishwanath Katti BJP 98 Humnabad Rajshekhar INC 99 Hunasuru Adaguru H Vishwanath JD(S) 100 Hungund Doddanagouda G Patil BJP 101 Indi Yashvantharaygouda Vittalagouda Patil INC 102 Jagalur(St) S V Ramachandra BJP 103 Jamkhandi Siddu Bhimappa Nyamgoud INC 104 Jayanagar Election countermanded 105 Jevargi Ajay Dharam Singh INC 106 K.R Pura B.A.Basavaraja INC 107 Kadur K S Prakash BJP 108 Kagwad Shrimant Balasaheb Patil INC 109 Kalaghatagi CM Nimbannavar BJP 110 Kampli (ST) J N Ganesh INC 111 Kanakagiri Basavaraj Dadesugur BJP 112 Kanakapura D K Shivakumar INC 113 Kapu Lalaji .R Mendon BJP 114 Karkala V. Sunil Kumar BJP 115 Karwar Roopali Santosh Naik BJP 116 Khanapur Dr Anjali Hemant Nimbalkar INC 117 Kittur Doddagoudar Mahantesh Basavantaray BJP 118 Kolar K.Srinivasa Gowda JD(S) 119 Kolar Gold Field Roopakala. M INC 120 Kollegal N Mahesh BSP 121 Koppal K Raghavendra Basavaraj Hitnal INC 122 Koratagere Dr. G. Parameshwara INC 123 Krishnaraja S A Ramadas BJP 124 Krishnarajanagara Sa. Ra. Mahesh JD(S) 125 Krishnarajapete Narayanagowda JD(S) 126 Kudachi P Rajeev BJP 127 Kudligi(ST) N.Y. Gopalakrishna BJP 128 Kumta Dinakar Keshav Shetty BJP 129 Kundapura Halady Srinivas Shetty BJP 130 Kundgol Channabasappa Sathyappa Shivalli INC 131 Kunigal Dr H.D. Ranganath INC 132 Kushtagi Amaregouda Linganagouda Patil Bayyapur INC 133 Lingsugur DS Hoolageri INC 134 Maddur D.C.Thammanna JD(S) 135 Madhugiri M.V. Veerabhadraiah JD(S) 136 Madikeri Appachu Ranjan M P BJP 137 Magadi A. Manjunath JD(S) 138 Mahadevapura Aravind Limbavali BJP 139 Mahalakshmi Layout K. Gopalaiah JD(S) 140 Malavalli Dr.K.Annadani JD(S) 141 Malleshwaram CN Ashwath Narayan BJP 142 Malur K.Y. Nanjegowda INC 143 Mandya M Srinivas JD(S) 144 Mangalore UT Abdul Khader INC 145 Mangalore City North Dr.Bharath Shetty. Y BJP 146 Mangalore City South D. Vedavyasa Kamath BJP 147 Manvi Raja Venkatappa Nayak JD(S) 148 Maski Pratapgouda Patil INC 149 Mayakonda N. Linganna BJP 150 Melukote C S Puttaraju JD(S) 151 Molakalmuru B. Sreeramulu BJP 152 Moodabidri Umanatha A Kotian BJP 153 Muddebihal Ameenappa Gouda S Patil (Nadahalli) BJP 154 Mudhol Govind Makthappa Karajol BJP 155 Mudigere MP Kumaraswamy BJP 156 Mulbagal H.Nagesh (Leading) Independent 157 Nagamangala Suresh Gowdaa JD(S) 158 Nagthan Devanand Fulasing Chavan JD(S) 159 Nanjangud B. Harshavardhan BJP 160 Narasimharaja Tanveer Sait INC 161 Nargund Chandrakantagouda Channappagouda Patil BJP 162 Navalgund Shankar B Patil Munenakoppa BJP 163 Nelamangala Dr K Sreenivasamurthy JD(S) 164 Nippani Jolle Shashikala Annasaheb BJP 165 Padmanaba Nagar R Ashoka BJP 166 Pavagada K M Thimmarayappa (leading) JD(S) 167 Periyapatna K Mahadeva JD(S) 168 Pulakeshinagar R Akhanda Srinivasamurthy (leading) INC 169 Puttur Sanjeeva Matandoor BJP 170 Raichur Dr Shivaraj Patil BJP 171 Raichur Rural Basanagouda Daddal INC 172 Rajaji Nagar S Suresh Kumar BJP 173 Rajarajeshwarinagar Election May 28, Result May 31 174 Ramanagaram H.D.Kumaraswamy JD(S) 175 Ramdurg Mahadevappa Shivalingappa Yadawad BJP 176 Ranibennur R Shankar S/O M Ramachandra KPJP 177 Raybag Aihole Duryodhan Mahalingappa BJP 178 Ron Kalakappa Bandi BJP 179 Sagar H Halappa Harathalu BJP 180 Sakleshpur H K Kumaraswamy JD(S) 181 Sandur(ST) E Tukaram INC 182 Sarvagnanagar K.J George INC 183 Saundatti Yellamma Vishwanath Chandrashekhar Mamani Alias Anand BJP 184 Sedam Rajkumar Patil BJP 185 Shahapur Sharanabasappa Gouda Darshanapur INC 186 Shanti Nagar N A Haris INC 187 Shiggaon Basavaraj Bommai BJP 188 Shikaripura B S Yeddyuappa BJP 189 Shimoga K.S. Eshwarappa BJP 190 Shimoga Rural K.B. Ashok Naik BJP 191 Shirahatti Ramappa Sobeppa Lamani BJP 192 Shivajinagar R Roshan Baig INC 193 Shorapur Narasimhanayak(Rajugouda) BJP 194 Shravanabelagola C N Balakrishna JD(S) 195 Shrirangapattana Ravindra Srikantaiah JD(S) 196 Sidlaghatta V. Muniyappa INC 197 Sindgi Managuli Mallappa Channaveerappa JD(S) 198 Sindhanur Venkatrao Nadagouda JD(S) 199 Sira B Sathyanarayana JD(S) 200 Sirsi Kageri Vishweshwar Hegde BJP 201 Siruguppa(S.T) M.S. Somalingappa BJP 202 Sorab S.Kumara Bangarappa BJP 203 Sringeri T D Rajegowda INC 204 Srinivasapur K R Ramesh Kumar INC 205 Sullia Angara. S BJP 206 T.Narasipur Ashvin Kumar.M JD(S) 207 Tarikere D S Suresh BJP 208 Terdal Siddu Savadi BJP 209 Tiptur B.C. Nagesh BJP 210 Tirthahalli Araga Jnanendra BJP 211 Tumkur City G.B. Jyothi Ganesh BJP 212 Tumkur Rural D C Gowrishankar JD(S) 213 Turuvekere Jayaram A S (Leading) BJP 214 Udupi K Raghupathi Bhat BJP 215 Varuna Yathindra S INC 216 Vijay Nagar M Krishnappa INC 217 Vijayanagara Anand Singh INC 218 Virajpet K G Bopaiah BJP 219 Yadgir Venkatreddy Mudnal BJP 220 Yelahanka S.R.Vishwanath BJP 221 Yelburga Achar Halappa Basappa BJP 222 Yellapur Arabail Hebbar Shivaram INC 223 Yemkanmardi Satish L Jarkiholi INC 224 Yeshvanthapura S.T Somashekhar INC

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gurivinda-blog · 6 years

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ఏడు రోజుల్లోగా అసెంబ్లీలో బలం నిరూపించుకోవాలని బీజేపీకి అవకాశం ఇచ్చారు. మరోవైపు జేడీఎస్‌-కాంగ్రెస్‌ వర్గాల్లో ఆందోళన వ్యక్తమైంది.

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poonamparekh · 6 years

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Karnataka Election LIVE: Let BJP prove majority, Yeddyurappa asks Governor

Karnataka Election Result LIVE updates: Giving Karnataka election outcome a new twist, Sonia Gandhi reportedly rang up HD Kumaraswamy and offered support to the JD(S), with him as the Chief Minister of the state. Incumbent Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah submitted his resignation to the Governor today. With Modi wave still riding high, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday forged ahead winning 82 seats and leading in 22. The ruling Congress, desperate to retain power in the state amid shrinking appeal nationally, suffered major blows and was ahead only in 28 seats constituencies in the Karnataka Assembly polls, according to trends. It managed to win 50 seats by 4:00 pm. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah lost from Chamundeshwari.

In contrast, the BJP's Chief Ministerial face B S Yeddyurappa beat his Congress rival by 35,397 votes in Shikaripura. JD(S) was leading in 10 seats and has won 27 seats so far.

BJP activists and leaders celebrated noisily in both Bengaluru and New Delhi, waving party flags and shouting slogans hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, their main vote-getter, and party President Amit Shah.

There were also celebrations outside the residence of Yeddyurappa, who has been Chief Minister earlier too.

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anika95sharma · 6 years

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Karnataka election result 2018: Siddaramaiah meets Governor, resigns as CM

The Karnataka Assembly election 2018 result is close to being known as vote counting is underway on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally blitz in the state poised to pay off.

According to official Election Commission figures as of 16:11 pm, the BJP was leading in 26 seats and had won 78 seats, the Congress was leading in 30 seats and had won 48, the Janata Dal (Secular) was leading in 14 seats and had won 23, the Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party had won one seat, the Bahujan Samaj Party won one seat, and the independents were leading in one seat. Meanwhile, Siddaramaiah has submitted his resignation to the Governor of Karnataka. A record 72.36 per cent of the 50.7 million (5.07 crore) electorate cast their votes, with 27,908 electors in defence services exercising their franchise through postal ballots. The Election Commission has deployed 16,662 personnel for counting of votes amid tight security. "Postal ballots will be counted first before the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are read more

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mylucky137276 · 6 years

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Karnataka election results: JD(S) accepts Cong's alliance offer; updates

The Karnataka Assembly election 2018 result is close to being known as vote counting is underway on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally blitz in the state poised to pay off. According to official Election Commission figures as of 14:17 pm, the BJP was leading in 70 seats and had won 36 seats, the Congress was leading in 65 seats and had won nine, the Janata Dal (Secular) was leading in 35 seats and had won four, the Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party had won one seat, the Bahujan Samaj Party was leading in one seat, and the independents were leading in one seat.

According to official Election Commission trends as of 12.50 pm, the BJP was leading in 104 seats and had won four seats, the Congress was leading in 69 seats and had won one, the Janata Dal (Secular) was leading in 40 seats, the Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party was leading in one, the Bahujan Samaj Party was leading in one, and the independents were leading in one seat.

A record 72.36 per cent of the 50.7 million (5.07 crore) electorate cast their votes, with 27,908 electors in defence services exercising their franchise through postal ballots.

The Election Commission has deployed 16,662 personnel for counting of votes amid tight security. "Postal ballots will be counted first before the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are opened," Kumar said.

Meanwhile, four of the seven polling agencies predicted in their exit polls that the BJP would emerge as the single-largest party today. While most exit polls predicted a hung Assembly with the BJP ahead, two said the BJP would either come very close to or cross the halfway mark of 112 seats, while the India Today-Axis exit poll said the Congress might bag a majority. All exit polls gave the H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) nearly two dozen seats or more, which could make it the kingmaker if there is a hung Assembly.

Top 10 developments on Karnataka election 2018 results:

1) The BJP could come up short of a majority on its own: According to official Election Commission figures as of 14:17 pm, the BJP was leading in 70 seats and had won 36 seats, the Congress was leading in 65 seats and had won nine, the Janata Dal (Secular) was leading in 35 seats and had won four, the Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party had won one seat, the Bahujan Samaj Party was leading in one seat, and the independents were leading in one seat.

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vasitumthings · 5 years

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Social Media Soaring to Miraculous Heights

“Social media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage, and build relationship” -David Alston

The Birthplace of Social Media

The definition and classification can although be controversial, in 2019 Merriam-Webster defined the term as "forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and micro-blogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)".

Social media has two large aspects under which it can be studied: the technological and the social. The technological developments and innovation help improve the connectivity while the user-based networking helps transfer different types of data. Users build profiles specific to the service provided by various platforms. It was designed with the idea of connecting a set of users to exchange data across predefined networks with maximum accuracy and quick transfer.

Social media is well on its way to snatch the title of “the fourth pillar of democracy” from the traditional forms of media like print or radio. The term “social media” and its popularity are largely due to the outburst of multiple social media platforms from the mid to late 2000s. Giants like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have dominated the industry for some time but platforms like Orkut, Reddit and Tumblr remain close to user’s hearts to this day.

The single objective of these platforms is to connect various people and businesses from various parts of the world. This has inevitably resulted in an untraceable amount of networks spreading over the whole world. With advancing technology to complement it, social media is getting bigger by the second only to morph into the next generation of advertisements.

Networks of the New Era

An enormous 3.2 billion internet users are active on social media, that’s a little over 42% of the entire world population. This makes it the biggest audience to any other form of media, ever. After the second quarter of 2019, Facebook report 2.414 billion monthly active users of which 303 million were from India.

But the most significant feature of social media as a new form of marketing is the increase in the number of consumers and as a result, promoters and products. With more individual influencers connecting with consumers online, social media has become an ideal place for big, medium, small brands and start-ups. With 81% of all small to medium businesses and 91% retail brands using a social media platform in some form of the other, the industry is headed nowhere but up!

The wide use of social media has actually also become a relief of sorts to the employment conditions where software and technology firms are hiring largely for social media platforms or other directly related businesses. Marketing Managers, Art Directors and Copywriters are all full-time and readily available jobs as a direct result of social media platforms and their popularity.

That being said, a “social media influencer” or “tweets about your day and Instagram stories with foodie pics” is not a career choice. One can most certainly try and make a career out of it, but not something that might be sustainable. However, saying that having the words “social media” in your job title implies your job is unimportant is simply misguided and can discourage people from entering into an emerging space that is ripe with opportunities.

Where are we headed?

The world of social media is complicated and hard to understand but in this day and age, knowing about the happenings of society is rather important and social media, as risky as it might be, is getting that job done. But the industry is not all flowers, it has had its fair amount of dips. The rise in the number of platforms has sparked debate of invasion of privacy, spreading hate speech and/or racism, government censorship, self-censorship by social media platforms and ownership of content.

The most recent case was the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal that revealed Cambridge Analytica (CA) collected personal data of millions of peoples' Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political manipulation and advertising purposes.

Notably, CA was hired by the Indian National Congress (INC) to carry out "in-depth electorate analysis" and influence voters, including in the 2010 elections to the Bihar Legislative Assembly. 355 Indian Facebook users installed a Cambridge Analytica app, exposing the data of 562,455 users. In early 2018 Cambridge Analytica made a 50-page proposal for the INC for both the upcoming 2019 general election in India and their upcoming electoral campaign for the Indian states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh state elections in 2018.

Although the platforms and the overall workings maybe treacherous and uncertain, social media platforms have brought about better connectivity and a great deal of relief to millions with various campaigns all the from terrorism (“je suis charlie” for the attacks on the French newspaper offices of Charlie Hebdo in 2015), sexual assault cases (MeToo for awareness about sexual assault by encouraging survivors to share their stories) to civil movements (Black Lives Matter movement for an end to police brutality and the killings of African-Americans in the U.S).

The platforms, their impact and complexity have all been well studied and documented in recent years and is going through tremendous change even now. The rational step forward is to use these tools effectively and help find ways to help improve as many lives as possible.

#riseofsocialmedia #socialmediamarketing #vasitum #jobportalindia #socialmediagrowth

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