Don't be mere WhatsApp and facebook warriors. Go. Vote.
This note is for holders of 'politics is so dirty ya. So not voting...' kind of an opinion. Please read on...
Was passing by the mustering centre this morning dropping someone for the election duty. Have done this for the last couple of years now. The delegated staff have a list of activities to be performed.
► Be present early in the morning the previous day at the mustering centres.
► Collect EVMs and related materials
► Travel to the assigned booths today in the bus or vehicle given by the govt.
► Stay overnight at the booth with or without basic facilities such as water or bathroom and even a bedroll to sleep. Share the space with insects, mosquitoes and rodents/snakes in worse conditions.
► Wake up, shit and bathe before 5 is there is a bathroom plus water. Else just change into something else.
► Run a mock poll to check the EVMs functioning early in the morning by 6. Report accordingly.
► Start polling. Stay put. Eat if possible. Else just stay.
► Return EVMs for demustering. Return late night tomorrow or day after tomorrow morning.
The manpower for this:
► Cops.
► Men across professions. They cannot shun the duty else they'd have an FIR on them under PRA.
► Women, mothers, ladies all ages. Respect.
► Support staff.
Numbers are HUGE. Operation is respectable and massive.
Do us a favor. Even if you hate your local candidate, just go and cast your vote by sparing a few mins in the line assuming it's some shopping you are doing. Attach pleasure to the end result and motivate yourself.
Everyone is out there braving it to save democracy. Don't be mere WhatsApp and fb warriors. Go. Vote.
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Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani whose nomination form was rejected suspended from Congress
Ahmedabad, Apr 25: The Gujarat Congress on Friday suspended from the party for six years its Surat Lok Sabha candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to the BJP's Mukesh Dalal getting elected unopposed.
A statement from the Congress said the party's disciplinary committee decided to suspend Kumbhani after thorough discussion, adding it had come to the conclusion that the nomination form was rejected due to gross negligence on his part or "in connivance with the BJP".
"To be fair to you we have given time to you to explain your case but instead of coming before the party disciplinary committee you have gone incommunicado. After your form was rejected by the authorities, BJP went ahead and got form of other eight candidates withdrawn. This has deprived people of Surat their voting rights," the Congress disciplinary committee headed by Balu Patel said.
"People of Surat and party workers have become very angry due to your action and are expressing their anger in different ways. The Congress party has decided to suspend you for six years from the party," the press note said.
Kumbhani's nomination form was rejected on April 21 after his three proposers submitted affidavits to the district returning officer claiming the signatures on the document was not theirs.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same grounds.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were rejected after prima facie discrepancy was found in the signatures of the proposers and they did not appear to be genuine.
Kumbhani, a former corporator from Surat, had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 Assembly polls from Kamrej there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency on April 22 after all other nominees, including one from BSP, withdrew from the fray one by one on the last day of withdrawing papers.
