Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Election stories contd.....

1. The Election Commission Shows The Riot Act.

    The Election Commission has shown the riot act in West Bengal and reduced a day of campaigning
    owing to the unprecedented violence that has taken place recently. In fact, it has been so in all the
    phases thus far. The electioneering will, thus, end in the state by tomorrow evening.

    Probably, this has taken place after violence was leashed out at the BJP rally yesterday. Mamata
    Banerjee had in a press conference at 2100 hrs, this evening, said that the EC's action is unethical,
    unprecedented and unconstitutional. She continues with her charge that the BJP had got their
    goons from the neighbouring states of UP and Bihar and that her party has nothing to do with it.

2. Postal Ballots Without the Individual's Knowledge.

    The case of hushing up of the misuse of postal ballots' of the personnel of the district medical
    office, Pathanamthitta has come to light. It was, again, that of the staff that was deployed for
    election duties. Of the 500 personnel deployed, only 150 were eligible to cast their ballots through
    post but the department had applied for postal ballots for the entire lot of 500!

    Corruption has seeped to these levels. Disgusting! And on top of that, moves are afoot to hush it
    up!!

3. The Parties Clear the Air.

    K Chandrasekhar Rao's TRS will have no truck with the BJP, post polls but is willing to have it
    with the Congress. The DMK has always been with the Congress but it insists on Rahul Gandhi
    being the PM!

    Well, permutations and combinations are being worked out to whose advantage, time alone will
    tell on 23 May.

4. The KPCC's Announcements.

    The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee has made its thoughts - illogical to many and to quite
    a few among them too. Note their announcements:-

       (a) The UDF will make a clean sweep of all the 20 seats!
       (b) Rahul Gandhi will win in Wayanad by a margin of over 3,50,000 votes.
       (c) Palakkad will be won very easily.

    Why do these guys make such idiotic statements? They should be quiet till 23 May and speak out
    their minds subsequently!


Tailpiece.

Had got up with the alarm at 6, gone through the chores and were ready well in time. The truss work team was missing as the next installment of the roofing sheets didn't fetch up. Vipin and his team had commenced work on the repairs to the false ceiling.

Vijayan, from Ayur, had come on the dot. Without much ado, I'd driven off to Kottarakkara with him to buy the requisite paints and accessories and also to encash the cheque that Mini had given me a few days back. The sad fact was that liquid cash wasn't available at the bank and I'd to wait for almost a three quarters of an hour.

Thankfully, both the teams could progress with their work because the truss work team was absent and their accessories like ladders, movement space and the use of plug points was not a nightmare.
Sanil and Mini had dropped by for lunch and left by the evening, back to Ponni's. Vipinan's team cleared up the muck before secure. Phew! 

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